Archives for December 2008
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Emoticon
We use Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 at work. It gets the message across, except that its “big grin” emoticon is rather lame (creepy, even):
What I miss most is Yahoo! Messenger’s “rolling on the floor” emoticon:
Honest Husbands
It’s funny how sometimes wives ask their husbands over the phone, “are there any women in the office?” when their husbands are working late.
I suppose these wives expect that their ultra-honest information-volunteering philandering husbands would say “yes, and the most attractive one of them all is sitting on my lap right now.”
Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
If you’re using Windows and you would like to mount an ISO file as a drive, download Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1 from Microsoft. Although the readme file says that it’s for Windows XP Home / Professional, I tested it on Windows Server 2003 and it works.
What I like about it:
No frills
Just run the EXE, […]
Meetings
I once worked in a company where meetings were long, drawn-out affairs, filled with endless “what if”s, digressions and back-and-forth, typically lasting three to four hours at a time. It was fine for the managers but for the executives who had to do the actual work, it meant having to stay back late after a […]
2008 Audi A4
Thank God for the new Audi A4. Not that I’m ever going to buy it but at least I can have a dream car once again. I’ve always liked the A4 for its understated, mathematical elegance. Unfortunately the previous model was so ugly I couldn’t stand to look at its oblong maw. Perhaps Audi designers […]