Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Blogging From The In-Laws: Days 6 & 7

Entry Pertaining to December 25th & 26th I think I’ve eaten more food in the past two days than a small east African nation. We’re currently stationed at my wife’s grandmother’s house and, in the grand tradition of Southern grandmothers,…

Okay, Now I’m Freaked…

They just turned the house lights on me, the A/C units are making funny noises, and I swear that color copier just whispered something to me. I am outta here!

Wheeee!

Well into my 13th hour on the job, all of reality begins to shift around me. Oh look! The Care Bears are dropping by to say hello! I better get going before I fall asl..asdfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff455555555555555555555q344 *BZZZT*

Everybody’s Workin’ For The Weekend

This weekend is our end-of-year “maintenance window”, wherein I and three other sysops all hack ourselves bleary-eyed through a virtual forest of unpatched Mac and Windows machines out on the engineering floor. I’m currently in my 11th hour today and…

Holy Cow!

I can’t quite wrap my mind around this one – it almost certainly has to be a hoax: Hriders.com gives out free 1TB [you read that right, one terrabyte -ed.] email accounts. Makes my puny 1GB GMail account seem puny…