Historic Whiskey Could Go Down Drain
Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.
Why not? I have been reading through Tim Ferriss’s blog recently and it’s been pretty interesting.
The latest gives tips on how to learn a language quickly.
I also like How to lose 20lbs of fat in 30 days. I am going to try out both ideas. I also ordered his book so I’m looking forward to reading that.
Recently my work laptop, running XP (blah), started acting up. It was pretty much always a pig. For some reason I got a really old hand me down when everyone else in my group got awesome, powerful mobile workstations. The thing is a piece of crap, locks up whenever I hibernate or sleep, runs like general shit even with 2GB of RAM, and has horrible battery life.
I am pretty sure the hard drive has physical issues that aren’t helping the problems any. It refused to boot one day so IT took a look at it and, of course, IT immediately blamed all the software I had installed on it. I told them I would remove it all but my productivity would literally be cut in half. I can’t be crippled by the meager choice of shitty software they install. Hell, their software choices are most of the performance/stability issues. IE regularly craps out, as does Office. Forget trying to use SalesLogix or any of our bug tracking tools. They take at least 10 minutes simply to start up!
I am not exaggerating when I say that after initial boot, with no additional programs opened, over 500MB of RAM is already in use! WTF?
To get them off my back I decided I’d come up with a clever way around their limitations. First, I uninstalled all the stuff I had installed. Ultimately IT is going to re-image my laptop, which is fine by me. I don’t store anything on there that can’t be lost. Then, I implemented my master plan.