Where’s my “Oh Good Grief” icon?! I seem to have left it somewhere.
Anyway. Mood: *Rolling Eyes* Oh Good Grief.

My mother’s computer just started popping off. She calls up to me whining that it’s making a long series of beeps, but then goes to a black screen.

Immediately when she described the beeps, I think “Stuck Key Error.” But this odd black screen doesn’t say that. When I get there and take a look, it says something like:

Error with Drive A.

I then spend the next 15 minutes trying to make it skip Drive A (the floppy drive) on startup. It won’t accept my commands. I’m starting to get irked… To avoid blatantly staring at the ceiling, which I often do when a machine is making no damned sense, I look down at the keyboard.

And then what do I see…

You guessed it. A stuck key.

I unstick the stupid key, and put in the command to exit setup without saving changes.

Sure enough–computer’s fine. Nothing’s wrong with the floppy drive.

Gah…

Current Mood: Cool

Time to get back to business. But first, a story that made my spirits lift:

Some German IT company had a problem when its 10-person team, all smokers, hired another 3 workers. These 3 were not only non-smokers, they demanded that the rest of the company kowtow to them by not smoking at work either!

The management’s response? Quite unlike what would happen in the US!

Thomas Jensen, the manager of the 10-person IT company in Buesum, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper he had fired the trio because their non-smoking was causing disruptions.

Germany introduced non-smoking rules in pubs and restaurants on Jan. 1, but Germans working in small offices are still allowed to smoke.

‘I can’t be bothered with trouble-makers,’ Thomas was quoted saying.

It’s about time somebody responded sanely! What gall, to go into a company that’s all smokers, and demand that everyone have a hellacious nic fit so the couple of new jerks are more comfortable instead.

Needless to say, the gall of that type of person doesn’t just stop. So of course they are suing for “wrongful dismissal.” But, since it’s Germany and not the US, there is hope that the case will be thrown out just like it should be.

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Current Mood: Playful

It may drive programmers nuts, but it works a lot of the time.

Occam’s Razor basically says something to the effect of “go for the simplest explanation.” While the Razor’s often used in theistic/atheistic arguments, that’s not how I used it in this case!

The error said there was a call to an undefined function in Line 27 of index.php. Now, I could have spent hours and hours trying to find out what that function should do, where the definitions are, was there a typo, etc…

Or I could try the simple solution. Find file. Highlight offending code. Hit the backspace key. Hit Save.

So, I went with simple.

And lo and behold! Not only did the error disappear and the footer appear, I got my left-side column appearing, now, too! Before, it wasn’t appearing, even though this theme said it should have 2 sidebars. It should be a simple matter now to adjust the columns so that they aren’t showing redundant info.