Catching co-worker having sex in the car while waiting for their cab: Freakishly Hysterical

Wow. I mean, wow. The only other time I can think of Microsoft walking away from a proposed merger was way back, for Intuit (Quicken)... to be honest, I think it's the right move for the company, but now I have to wonder what's next for Yahoo!... I know the shareholders aren't going to take it well and given the hubbub over the Google/Yahoo! ads trial (and the DOJ's reaction to it,) I can't imagine a merger there would be allowed.

Or does Y! come back Monday morning with a "oh, alright, $33/share is enough after all"? Of course, I'd love to see Microsoft say "sorry, the offer is lower now!" *g*

The mind boggles - just as much as it did when the merger was announced in the first place.

Pft. Who would of thought Cartman was being sensible about something...

The story this morning, though, was about food inflation and shortages ...and why it's the Hippies fault.

Eggs, chicken, milk, and beef have all increased in the price... why? Feed is more expensive, making it more expensive to raise [and milk] livestock. Rice has also doubled in price and certain warehouse stores are putting limits on what people can buy... why? Because we're getting less imported from places like India and Vietnam.

Feed is more expensive because wheat is in less quantity and more expensive. Because we have less wheat, we aren't exporting as much; other countries can't count on us for wheat right now, so they are holding back their rice exports, to feed their own citizens.

Wheat is having a shortage - and has grown more expensive - because more fields are being used for corn instead of wheat.

Corn is being grown more than ever before, to make domestic ethanol.

Ethanol is the front runner as an alternative to gasoline, even though most ethanol plant owners admit that they can never make enough ethanol to replace the level of gasoline used in the states.

Basically, the price of my teriyaki dinner is bound to increase - possibly double - knocking the last reasonable non-fastfood food option out of Redmond just so some tossed-off, stanking, dirty, Greenpeace-supporting, tree-hugging feck off dickmunch can feel smug that hir car is possibly being more environmentally friendly...

Lemme give ya some insight: you've disrupted my environment and I'm not at all friendly about it.

Fortune: When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.

Which is exactly what I said would happen - just makes this rumor 100% true. *g*

+ I got an advanced copy through pleading, so I'm already 6 hours into the game and have been enjoying it. A lot. And I've only seen spots of 1/3 of the overall map.
+ The game play is exactly what I've loved GTA and Bully for
+ All of things that I used to dislike about the game are gone in this release (GPS nav rules, auto-saving after every mission, easy health restoring)
- Niko is one slow moving bastard; praise the A-to-Run button
+ The graphics work is simply amazing, even by 360 standards; best thing T2 could have done was release the retro-feeling Bully two months ago...

I've heard there's multiplayer too, but in all honesty: I can't get away from the story yet.

What's wrong with this post? Absolutely nothing. I agree with Steve completely on this matter. When you're right, you're right. Hasn't happened since Heretic was released and we both recognized it as the best LAN-based game of its day.

Oh yeah... it's completely frozen over.

Based on his findings, I spent a little while in VBA and came up with a small for that addresses both issues, but I forewarn you: I'm not taking any responsibility for any data loss on this one... it's pretty straightforward but if you're like me, you have over 1000 calendar items and that's a lot of data to do batch updates on.

If you've suffered from the combination of iTunes, Outlook, and iPhone, and don't mind getting your hands rather dirty, please read on.

Based off the support form that Tim uses to clean up object type, I've added a button to the mix.

To use the CheckSize button, you must have done the following:
- Added a new Category called iPhoneSyncError. I made mine nice and Red so I can easily spot it in a list.
- Allowed non-signed Macros to run in Outlook (Tools -> Macros -> Security, select Warnings for all macros.)
- Learned how to import an FRM file into Outlook via the Developer tab (Tim has a good walkthrough on this already)

Once you have the above set up, download the frm file that I've modified from the original: Download frm form here.

Using the same instruction that you found on Tim's post, import this file into your Outlook environment, hook up a toolbar button to launch this form, and show a calendar view.

The CheckSize button can only be run if you are showing the Calendar. It will also only tag IPM.Appointment types and tell you if you have to Analyze and Process other items in the currently showing Calendar. Assuming you have all of the right object types and you are in the Calendar, clicking CheckSize will tag any calendar entry that has more than 1600 characters in the body of the item. Why 1600? Because < 1600 works. It might be 1650. Might be 1700. I wasn't going to burn more time on this trying to fine tune it to this level.

Once tagged with the iPhoneSyncError category, you can search for these items and prune the bodies as need.

Does it suck that you have to do this manually? Yes. Is it better than just missing items without warning? I definitely think so...

I'm also thinking about adding a rule that tags incoming meeting requests that are > 5KB that also don't have an attachment, with iPhoneSyncError, just to be aware of possibly problems...

Lame, but at least it's a tool to have handy for now.

This is a bug: there's a cap to how big a Calendar item's body can be yet you'd never know about it until you hit the problem.

I have a Calendar item in Outlook that has 6903 characters. I didn't create it but it's in my Calendar just the same. Not an unreasonable size anyway. The bug here is what happens when this item is Sync'd to the iPhone: nothing. iTunes completely ignores it and your Calendar on the iPhone has open time for this slot. It doesn't put in a stub or truncated item for you. It doesn't tell you there was a problem. No error, no warning, no sync log file to investigate. And what's maddening: no choice on how to handle it. Ideally there would be a "Sync items larger than blah" option. Apple didn't include it and odds are it would be explained as "that's a feature! Who likes error messages? It just works!"

Enter Concession #1: watching Calendar items sync and make sure the items are smaller than at least 6K of text or else I miss meetings.

Update #1 - Seems I'm not the first to have this problem either: http://timheuer.com

Should be interesting to see if the same thing happens here... the AirSync support very well may dictate how long I keep this device.

And the journey continues...

Why? Because I recently bought one, and if past history has shown me anything, as soon as I buy something like there one of the following things happens: a new version is often released or a price drop is enacted. And always 48 hours after I can do anything about it. Since the iPhone has a 14 day return policy and I bought it yesterday, in another 15 days there should be a price drop or new model available.

It has happened before - odds say it will happen again.

Thoughts on the device follow...

Expected:
+ Ease of hooking up WiFi
- No support of WiFi at work
+ Shiny UI
+ Orientation-aware, for many apps
+ Better browsing [than my Dash]
- No Calendar syncing over the air [which WM has]
- Crappy onscreen keyboard
- No voice dialing
- No Shuffle By Album
- No solitaire
- Having to worry about firmware upgrades because I want a choice of carrier

Unexpected:
- No MMS support (WTF?)
- Only having one sound option for all sounds
+ Better navigation than expected (I expected "use home button" to suck)
+ Jailbreaking was remarkably easy
+ The Installer app in Jailbreaking rocks (App Store should be as good as this)
+ BT headset integration is very well done
- Ring tone limitations are maddening (I've been using un-DRM'd MP3's for years)
+ Wallpapering is fun again
+ iTunes allows you to sync [Calendar/Contact] Info from multiple PC's (critical)
- Having to carry the Dash for remote email
+ Don't miss random-access VM
+ SMS threading is neat
- Miss Pocket Outlook from WM more than I thought I would
- Miss the tactile keyboard from the Dash more than I thought I would
- Less cross-feature features than I expected

For the most part, I just wanted a change and I got one... will I keep it? Maybe.

It'll depend on the available carrier support on the 2.0 bits and how the Exchange integration works. One thing I've been able to appreciated more in the last 48 hours is how much "better" the Calendar is on the Dash and how well Calendar and Inbox are integrated... As an example, if I get an email to my "Exchange enabled" inbox in 2.0 that includes a Calendar request, will it auto update the calendar? Don't know yet because the bits aren't there, but I'm betting it won't be that easy. One of the unexpected disappointments is how each of the app's on the phone are dissimilar. For all of the praise the UI gets, people miss or ignore the fact that some apps don't support landscape account or that the keyboard behaves different or that T9 doesn't work everywhere... other mobile and desktop apps/OS's have the same problem, but based off what I've heard I expected more. Closer than most but still not 100% (and it's all Apple apps at this point, so I can't even blame ISV's).

FWIW, I also recommend a glare-free skin for the front: not so much for scratches but it really helps with the fingerprinting.

Most realistic part of the movie, I think.

Actually, I find myself in the position to tell the Dalai Lama that he is wrong. I have every right to tell someone to 'shut up!'

...I just don't have the right to expect other people to shut up, just because I told them to.

It's through blind faith that this snaggle-toothed fucker horded 555 women and got laid at will.

I have no other explanation - do you?

The 'goat just send this to me via IM, but I heard about it on the radio and I have to say... I look forward to being able to blame things that have been going on for over two hundred years on web sites. After all, bullying never existed before the Internet. People never got beat up before computers were networked. And God knows the floppy disk alone caused people to get pissed off for stuff that other people say.

FWIW, the only thing that I will blame - or credit - YouTube and MySpace for in this is the fact that they are helping natural selection along. If anyone is dumb enough to stage a fight, film it, and then blt it to the world with pride? They are need to go away for a while... if you use leeches can they syphon off the stupidity?

The only thing dumber than filming the fight is the fact that girl obviously did someone to provoke this reaction and did so in a public forum - I believe the audio from the video has snippets of "cheated" and "stole" which means that there's a history here rather than a random act.

And of course the dumbest thing of all is that the media is now involved - makes me wonder what would have happened if the girls fought it out in Second Life.

With a K/D Spread of +38.

And only 1 Betrayal.

*swoon*

-- Randy