Chet Reads & Writes*

Category: Argh!

Rabble, Rabble, Rabble!

Three years ago I was introduced to The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. If you’re not totally familiar with the tale, it’s a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It’s the tale of a couple on Safari, and a chain of events that leads to the end of Francis. It’s a great story, and [...]

Live Tech “Support” from Gateway

Nicole is the proud owner of a Gateway LT1004u netbook. A little while back it decided to pretend that it’s battery no longer existed. Today I tried to get this fixed. Here is the result of my final chat with Gateway’s online tech support. I had written a nice piece of customer feedback for them, [...]

Homophones are Important

I’m tired of it. You’re tired of it. High school grammar teachers, and professors everywhere are tired of it. Some where in the last decade people have forgotten the difference in meanings, spellings and pronunciations of some of the most important words in the English language. Maybe the problem stems from the fact that they [...]

Dear Rude E-Mailer:

Dear X,

I respectfully decline your invitation to communicate on the matter at hand any further. After your curt and grammatically erroneous response I’ve promptly decided that you’re an arse-hat who does not deserve any more of my time- beyond this response. Enjoy the rest of your existence.

X-Box 360 and Vista Ultimate: A Match Made in Heaven?

ChetG battles it out with X-Box 360 and Windows Vista Ultimate in order to create the ultimate home entertainment package!

Programmer’s Delight

I’ve finally defeated most of the spammers in the world. I’ve struggled for months trying to solve my spam issues, to finally reach a resolve. There are multiple security techniques mentioned, though not explained. Help is provided if you’re feeling left out.

Is this the Real World?

In this blog Chet laments a bit about his role has Firm Principal in his PR firm, and how quickly he’s had to learn to deal with employees.

Abuse

Today I have come to fill everyone in on my negligent nature towards this website currently. Enjoy it!

The Church of Chicken Little

This is a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday October 10, 2008. There were a lot of very nice peaks, but there were also very, very many more valleys. I love the valleys within the valleys. I’m just a meek PR major, what do I know about economics and/or the stock market.

Similar to the Panda, it’s a mystery to me how IE has survived.

I recently entered the position of Web master at SHSU Recreational Sports. There are many projects that I am about to embark upon, but my first conquest is “fixing” the navigation bar. The following is the chronicle of my adventure into the land of CSS-only coding and design. Before I begin there are a few [...]