Channel 9 - Discussions by nemowho

Coffeehouse - Currency Convertor

nemowho — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:38:10 GMT

Markthe Viking's solution seems better than mine. (For the record, it was giving web access to a spider monkey and running MS Calc Plus...) heh... Mark wins!

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/outreach/dnloads/calcplus.mspx

Coffeehouse - What are you listening to: 2006

nemowho — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:56:45 GMT

a small, plastic coffee-stirrer stick, that I jammed into the side exhaust fan on this downtrodden Dell Optiplex GX280. (Friday afternoon, and quite, quite bored.) I thought it would be neat, like a playing card clipped to my bicycle spokes as a child... but in reality - - it's starting to get quite annoying.

Thinking of pulling it out, and perhaps cramming a Cafe del Mar CD in the *other* orifice of the machine... can't do much worse.

Coffeehouse - Worst Microsoft Product?

nemowho — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:15:46 GMT

At least Bob came with a handsome sticker in the retail package. (Still have mine on a toolbox somewhere in the garage!) I can't even say that about MS Dogs or Wine. (heh...)

Thinking back... the 900mhz cordless Microsoft phone and the Digital Sound System (both of which ended their effective lifecycles at the release of XP...) nice timing on both counts...

Assuming we can't count Me (because even that would be too much of a "tip of the hat" to its mere existence..), I'm going to have to also vote for Works. Notably, the pre-"Word-lite" versions of Works... I loudly declare the Works collection as "Microsoft's Greatest Misses". ^__^

And although, yes, Barney sucked... it remains a recordholder in my book for "Best MS Knowledge Base Titles Ever", at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172653/en-us