Planning a vacation? Need to get away for a while to explore your inner ick? Flowers for mum not doing it? Or maybe you're just looking for a little quiet time away from work and the morons who live there waiting to break stuff, erase stuff, drop stuff, lose stuff, download the "funny email picture", and in general make life amusing. A quick browse here might give you some ideas. Perhaps one of the best uses of google mapping EVER.

I can think of all sorts of things to do with this…

Posted by StuR at 07:50 PM | Permalink

Ah, I can hear them now. Splat! Splunchk! Squish…

Assuming you don't have access to the stunning array of idiots I work with, you could always turn to Blancco…lords of the data erasure product! Digital media getting you down? Splat! Vista a joy to shred? Splunchk! A tramp of a flash drive begging you to release its contents? Squish!

Blancco (gotta love the name) claims the ability to erase any and all data, destroy any and all storage media, vanquish the ghosts of data storage and retention.

I'm sure you've noticed a few melons crashing to the ground around here recently. I could claim I like to keep things exciting and never knowing if this site will be up, down, or perhaps in some tangential bubble universe of quantum foam is certainly exciting. But the truth is… well, it's possible I've stepped on a few toes over the last year or two in terms of a little "after hours hunting". I'm pretty sure there are a few cranky types out there who blame me (with good cause) for their suddenly missing botnets and zombies, and wouldn't mind trying to mess up my own site a little. You'd think they'd learn…

Posted by StuR at 07:44 PM | Permalink

And it would have to, wouldn't it?

According to the geniuses in survey-land, almost all tech based insider sabotage is the result of "disgruntled, paranoid, late, argumentative" people who have been fired from a position in IT. Perhaps my oh so trusty webhost sent someone home early with a little pink slip and a grudge?

Of course, their so-called customer service has left me fairly disgruntled, argumentative, and paranoid myself. So I can't blame their personal wage slaves for balancing the scale. Then again, that's MY money their messing with and I'm not feeling all that generous. Yo! Former disgruntled IT dude! Leave ronomi.com alone or you'll find me on your doorstep some day…

In other news, welcome to the world of "surprise you're it" browser bouncing. Also known as "you installed what?". I get a call today…"Save me Obi-tech! My computer has gone to the dark side!" Turns out he wanted to "live on the edge" and install a shiny happy browser to impress the new hire in the cubby to the right with his amazing technical abilities. Well, they installed yapbrowser. Oh yes. And they even had the sound on. I'm sure the new hire was impressed.

Might I suggest to any and all idiots out there that being easily distracted by shiny objects may be hazardous to your health in a cubicle environment? If you have to push the button, at least do it at home first…unless of course you happen to enjoy kiddie pics and are really jonesing for a pink slip of your own.

Posted by StuR at 07:36 PM | Permalink

Greetings and Salutations or Something of that Nature.

Welcome to ronomi.com, home of…well, you don't really care who I am and I don't really want to tell you. But let's just say I know more than you think about more than you know and despite my day job in the wonderful world of the IT wage slave you might learn something if you hang around long enough. Or not. This site may be a bit low rent at the moment, but that can change!

Sometimes it's the simple things that make life interesting, but I doubt it happens that way much.

Posted by StuR at 07:31 PM | Permalink