Been a while since I wrote something…
I kind of fell of the bandwagon, again…This time, however, I have a little bit of extra juice to play with. I recently bought myself a MacBook Pro. And I tell ya, I’m loving it! It is nice not being constrained to my desk to do any kind of writing or even programming (a site I’m working on). Oh, I still use my desktop (WinXP box) for gaming and my Linux for misc stuff. But, I tend to do more work on my Mac.
Now that I’m armed with this laptop, I can get some writing done as well … probably right before bed like I am now.
I also bought myself a new camera, Olympus Stylus 790SW, a model above the one I lost during my trip to Costa Rica. The camera is nice with a lot of cool little features. I’ll start taking some shots with it and add them to my Flickr archive.
Life is normal here. The holidays are over and vacation is done. Next one is MLK B-day, if I remember that right. I’m ready … not that it’s been any bit crazy at work, I just got use to having the days off!
Speaking of work, I think I kind of pissed a few people off. I have a bad tendency to come off completely wrong without even knowing it. Somebody sent around a link to an old article (Oct ’08) about how Buffalo lost a patent lawsuit on the 802.11a, b and n specs as if it was any indication that the specs were in trouble. The suggested hording up wireless routers now, before there are none left. My reaction to that was this was just another bogus lawsuit and nothing to worry about. Well, somebody took “bogus” the wrong way and thought I meant fake (not “pointless”), but this isn’t occur to me until after the fact. doh. Well, I replied with an email explaining how this was just another lawsuit filed in Murphy Texas (a patent horder’s favorite little town) in attempts to get money. And then went into a couple other suits and how they related to this one explaining as to why this one was pointless.
At any rate, a co-worker pointed out my email sounded a bit “dickish” which wasn’t what I was trying to do at all! Yikes! Rebound…so I sent a follow up explaining I didn’t mean for it be rude in any way. My point was simply we don’t need to worry about hoarding up all the wireless devices as this case is far from over. It may take time, but eventually things will get settled out (most likely the patent getting nullified — hopefully).
I don’t know why I tend to come off that way. Is it my nature of being as analytical as I am? Or did I pick up some bad habits (or not learn any right ones?) when growing up? I don’t know. I do like that a co-worker pointed that out for me. It allowed me to review my email and the reply to really see what people meant and how they could have taken it the wrong way.
Now, that’s al done. It’s time for bed. Gute nacht. I’ll try to post again tomorrow night, as if anybody’s actually reading this….
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