I was late for a conference call today.  About 20 minutes after the call started I got an email from the call leader.  Ouch.  As I dialed into the meeting I remembered I had set up an Outlook reminder for this reoccurring weekly call but nothing had popped up.  Waz up wit dat?

Oh of course!  My system clock is still one frigging hour behind a week after the Daylight Saving Time adjustment.  Since I can’t set my own time it’s up to the System Admin (read: world’s slowest I.T. guy) to do this for everyone via the server.  And instead of him having the server automatically fetch the time off of a nuclear clock via the internet or something, he has to do this manually.  What moron screwed it up for the rest of us so we can’t set our own PC clocks?  The privilege of setting our own time must obviously be linked to national security, leaking company secrets, and hours of lost productivity.   Not for helping us keep track of appointments, I guess.

(Sidebar:  I just looked at my WordPress posting time.  Just ADD an hour to get the *correct* time of this article.)

Frank N. Stein has a funny rant about photo kiosk hoggers over at FuriousFrank.com.  Although I agree whole heartedly that people should pick their favs, figure out formatting, etc., at home before taking up copious amounts of time at a public machine the problem lies in the fact that these same people probably DON’T have PC’s at home.