Wednesday, November 30, 2005

McFlurry's and other items of interest

You know why McDonalds® McFlurryTM spoons are so different? They are a tapered hollow square in shape with a latch at the end.

I just saw a woman at McDonalds® make me a McFlurryTM she attached the spoon to a spinning device and used it to mix my McFlurryTM! No wonder these spoons are so strange!

In in Manhattan NYC right now. I've been at a client site. I'm helping resolve issues we have. I've been very, very busy. The vast majority of the users we have are fairly non-technical, so I get to see all kinds of really things.

One guy told me our web-based application was logging him off whenever he stepped away from the computer. Turns out the Windows Screen-Saver was kicking in and logging him off Windows. Our application was fine. Just fine.

I've turned off many Windows Messenger Service services on systems here. Apparently, folks were getting random message boxes from "our application" about faxes being received, etc. So, I merely turned off the Messenger service and set it to manual on restart. They no longer get these random dialog boxes from our application.

For anyone who doesn't know, Windows Messenger messeges have nothing to do anything a user might see using a web-based application. They're two separate things.

Anyway, I'm really, really busy here. Sometimes, I can't even write an email message without having multiple interruptions. Gosh. It's so much fun! (not really).

I'll write more later.

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