Holy OSHA Violation, Batman!
A note accompanying a passel of bottles of Ocean Spray juice left in the break room at work read thusly: All juices are past their expiration date. Consume at your own risk! Yowsa.
Category Work
Solaris Admins, You WantNeed PCA
No, I’m not talking about the Presbyterian Church in America, I’m talking about Patch Check Advanced. PCA is the Solaris analog to Fedora’s YUM[1], Debian’s APT[2], or even FreeBSD’s Ports[3]. It basically allows you to completely skirt Sun’s bloated, kludgy…
I’m Picking Up Extremely High Levels Of “Enterprise” Humor In This Sector, Captain.
From the Mac OS X section of Sun/EMC/Legato’s HTML manual for their Networker Enterprise Backup System (EBS) version 7.3.2: Ref. cack vs. the intended “backup” for full humorous effect. Those who have used vainly attempted to use EMC’s EBS offering…
The Art Of Wor[k]: Like Sun Tzu For The Cubicle Dweller (First In A Series)
1. Only fools visit the vending machines on the day of customer meetings. The wise man waits for his quarry to appear in the kitchenette, slightly stale.
Don’t Call It A Condiment
…Cause I’m only playing catch-up. See, because it’s a homonym with… Bah, never mind. On with the Friday Link Dump! Hollywood is definitely out to retroactively destroy my childhood. How else can one explain their insistence on changing G.I. Joe…
The First Rule Of Corporate Compliance Training
…Is: The correct answer is not, as one might think, the right (ethically, morally, etc.) one, but instead the one that will end up costing the Company the least amount of money in court proceedings. Keeping this rule and its…
In The Absence Of Real Content…
Work still continues to be insane, so I’ve had no time for blogging on breaks. While you look for meaningful content elsewhere, why not see what George Bush views as the #1 threat to America: zombies. …Or is the #1…
Dear Abby…
A brief question, dear readers: What, precisely, is the proper workplace restroom response to a coworker who, by all appearances, is talking to his toilet bowl, other than fleeing the scene at top speed? Follow-up question: What is the proper…
Blogslacking (Or, As I Like To Call It, “Doing Real Work”)
I’ve been very busy here at WWDC these past two days and thus haven’t really had time to post much. Classes have been interesting and mostly useful. I got a chance to go out and see Ocean’s 13 the other…
Airport Blogging
I’m sitting in PHL waiting for my flight to arrive and ferry me off to Apple’s WWDC ’07 and must admit to a good deal of excitement. Not only am I going to get to attend my first Stevenote (one…
