Well, its been tough playing catch-up the last week or so from the conference.  Lots of Sonar related work, as well as some other things.  Sort of feeding off of Erics rant about 64-bit goodness I have a rant.

 

Why can't crap just work.  I mean, it's not that hard.  Other companies seem to manage.  Take my mouse for instance.  Its a particular brand of mouse (I won't say which) that worked great for 1 year.  And then BAM! Now it's skittery and jumpy all the time.  It's gotten to the point that its just not worth the trouble.  Now I would just call it a random misshap, the unlucky purchase of a flakey mouse, but I have another mouse by this same vendor at home.  It has worked perfectly for 2 years without misshap then BAM!  Now its skittery, jumpy etc.  These instances happened at about the same time, on different machines in different locations.  The only commonality (besides myself) is that they are wireless mice by the same vendor using the same wireless technology (same receiver even).  One is much newer and a laser versus the older, optical/led one.   Now why would this happen?  I certainly have no idea.  I would venture to say that an update to the operating system of both machines was to blame, but I cannot confirm that such an event happened.  I have since purchased a wireless mouse by a different vendor (same techmology AFAIK) which works perfectly.  It's things like that which really piss me off.  /rant