Digital Babel

[unixronin]

We're all packed and ready to head off to Maryland for Thanksgiving, and I'm sitting here waiting for my parents to email me a crucial form for our Medicaid recertification that was due YESTERDAY in a file format that we can actually use.  Why does every closed-source software vendor in the WORLD have to have their own friggin' proprietary file formats for common data like scanned images?  Come the hell ON, people, what's the point of having standards if NOBODY WILL FRELLING USE THEM?!?!?

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

hey there -

have a safe journey and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Arrived safely. Got here around about 22:30. Just going to bed now that I've checked e-mail and LJ.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

What cymrullewes said. Trip was basically uneventful except for the Dread Pirate Bignum spending most of it in a thoroughly poisonous mood, screaming and throwing things at people.

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if Dread Pirate Bignum could use a nap!