Clown Shoes

I've always wanted a chance to use the term "Clown Shoes" properly. I finally got it.

A friend/client of mine called about three weeks ago, apparently he got a new phone system.

The guy who installed it said that I needed to make some changes to their router to allow them to service the phone system remotely.

I told the client to have the phone guy email me what he needs. I heard nothing. Or so I thought. For three weeks or so, I told the client I heard nothing. Because I truly believed that I hadn't.

Anyway, the client finally forwards the phone guy's email to me.

Turns out, the phone guy sent me an email with no subject line, and when he entered his name in his email settings, he used some goofy capitalization - "Shmuly GOldsmith". Between the goofy spelling, lack of subject line, and the fact that I don't know anyone with that name, I figured it was spam and marked it as such. Mystery solved. Of course, this would also block him from sending me mail in the future as well.

Here's what I wrote to the client once I figured it out:

"I think I figured out why it got marked as spam.

His name is shown with goofy capitalization, and he put NO subject line.

Fucking clown shoes."

Anyway, "Shmuly GOldsmith" -- thanks for the outstanding opportunity to use "Clown Shoes". Next time take less than a friggin' minute to type your own name correctly and enter a subject line.

Obama's Credit Card Bill for USA

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Obama's Credit Card Bill for USA
Originally uploaded by syedbalkhi

Just something to think about...

How's this for "hope" and "change"???

Just saw this and nearly threw up:



-- Post From My iPhone

Double standard?

If, as David Letterman insists, this is
the "slutty stewardess look"...
























Then what, pray tell, is this?
























First Lady Obama exiting Westminster Abbey.

MobileMe & Outlook - Birthdays

When I setup MobileMe, it took all of my birthdays and moved them to a separate calendar called "Birthdays". I didn't sweat it too much at the time, but knew that because they were not included on my primary Outlook calendar, I wouldn't get alerts before they occurred.

Later, I also discovered that the birthdays in the "Birthday calendar" were not actually sychronizing with Outlook anymore. In fact, although there were birthdays showing up on me.com/calendar, they did not appear in Outlook anymore.

Rather than going crazy worrying about the sync of Birthdays, I simply re-created them manually in Outlook, and rather than using the word "Birthday", which I worried would cause them to go to the "Birthday calendar", I used "BDay". I also made them recurring for 9 years only.

So far so good.

Finally! The White House Press Corps lets Gibbs have it

This is beautiful. I wish it would happen every day.