And Now, Some Terry Tate, For No Particular Reason
Well, no reason other than the fact that he cropped back up on Fark and elicited a private chuckle from me. Heh. Priceless.
Category Work
Am I The Only One Affected By The Effects Of Grammar?
A colleague was drafting a memo to send out company-wide today and forwarded it to me for review. The copy was mostly good, although he referenced several “servers that will be effected by ongoing work” or somesuch. I replied that,…
*Pant* *Wheeze* *Pant* *Cough Cough*
Nothing quite like a mid-day fire drill with a quick 6 story upwards jaunt to remind one just how out of shape one has gotten. Stupid sedentary lifestyle.
The Midianites Won
So, about that Gideon experience: the Midianites done trounced the Israelites, bigtime. Ain’t no change goin’ on here. *sigh*
I’d Best Be Working Some Overtime, Then.
I have to admit, I’ve started to become a bit of an Apple fanboy in the wake of my Powerbook/MacBook Pro conversion, but even if I hadn’t started down the road to Macdom, I still would have lusted after an…
It’s In The Air, Man! The Internet’s IN The AIR!
I’m sitting in an NTB waiting for the service techs to finish patching up a seeping flat, typing away on my MacBook Pro, posting courtesy of the mega-sweet Verizon Wireless V640 Express Card. My employer has been buying the PCMCIA…
Be Careful What You Wish For
While I definitely rejoiced in the “untimely” death of Smooth Jazz WJJZ, my joy was definitely short-lived, as the corporate monsterswonderful, caring people in charge of such things replaced The Hideousness That Was with The Hideousness That Is – the…
Phriday Video Phun
Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
Fun In The Sun (Microsystems Server)
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux’s `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don’t give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed. First, a little background: like many shops…
H2Oh No!
I was sitting in a meeting this afternoon when a rather vicious line of thunderstorms moved in, complete with torrential downpours and large bolts of lightning. About 20 minutes into the meeting, lightning apparently hit a power substation somewhere near…