Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Daylight savings, time wasting




I just got done spending a couple of hours downloading and installing updates to keep my PocketPC's calendar from going nuts when the new daylight savings rule kicks in next week. What a pain. Anyone old enough to have lived through the first DST modification fiasco during the 70's is having flashbacks this week. I recall walking to school in the dark, myself. I understand the reason for doing this, but wonder just how much money we'll save versus how much we'll waste dealing with the technology adjustments. My way cool Yes Zulu watch, which used to auto-adjust for DST changes, doesn't anymore. For $200, I can get new watch guts to fix it. How many hours of electricity savings will I need to offset this?

Friday, January 5, 2007

Wirelessness...


Decided to move the Witman Zone, Part II over to BlogSpot because, at the risk of being rude, Yahoo's blogging system sucks. I've had "Entry for January 29, 2006" showing up as my most recent post for almost a year now, even though that post's title was changed and the post itself deleted. Odd behavior, and the folks at Yahoo don't seem to give a rip about fixing it.

Besides, with the recent changes in my career I think it's time for a fresh start. Still working on closure of the new gig. Consulting in the meantime, doing some work around the house, just enjoying not being where I was.

...dtw