Today I saw a Windows reboot script on one of BART’s new ticket machines.
I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.
So this personnel agent asks me to add some items to my résumé and mail it to her. No sweat. I keep the thing in HTML, because it’s convenient and relatively efficient. But when my agent gets it, oh dear, she sees no icon showing the attachment (because HTML is a format that Outlook understands, so it displays the content rather than a mere icon) and so she can’t save my résumé in her database and mail it to the client. Could I possibly put it in (I groan in anticipation) Word?
So I go to my housemate’s computer, download résumé.html (2617 bytes), open it in MessyWord, save it in Redmond format (23552 bytes), mail it to myself, save it, and mail that to the agent.
Argh. Such irony: her convenience requires the file to be in a format that her mail client cannot read; and so I send it in a format with the most generic extension — .doc — which Their own mail client treats as alien.
computer graphics in the old days
about tomaken – look at the source for a chuckle. (link from Redmaiden)
I’m working on my first nontrivial bit of text-parsing: a little program to extract search-strings from my HTTP logs. Unfortunately (but naturally) each search-engine has its own conventions and so I may never identify all the relevant fields!
I’m using Python, though I suppose I ought to do it in Perl for practice.