People can and will create all kinds of strange things when they build custom cars. Thursday was reasonably quiet at work. At least some of the ridiculously horrible problems with the ludicrous “security standards” the Payment Card Industry has demanded are fixed. I’m sure it’s only a temporary reprieve. They’ll continue to increase the requirements [...]

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Anyway. Busy yesterday, that’s why there was no entry. The only reason I have time to write one today is that there’s no Rock Band going on. So: Trivia: Went reasonably well. Scott was there, as were most of the group except Nathan and Troy. So we didn’t do well on sports questions, but were [...]

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Monday was relatively normal at work, or at least I didn’t get a horde of people yelling at me for no reason. Apparently, some automated procedure somewhere decided that I didn’t really need my LDAP password to work, and locked me out of my network account. Helldesk call, followed by password reset. Of course, when [...]

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Sunday, I saw this picture (cropped to preserve semi-anonymity of the person involved). I said, “This was a Dept. of Defense project to find uniforms that’d make the enemy laugh so hard they’d forget to shoot back. Right? Riiiight?” I don’t know for sure how it all turned out. It does make the previous Bad [...]

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Saturday had less going on than it might’ve had. But anyway, went out and got groceries, then did a bunch of software updates to my desktop and remote server. Also got the desktop to speak PTP to the new digicam, which resulted in the picture to the left. Nothing really exciting, just useful. Went out [...]

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Friday was actually a bit less interesting than usual at work. We tried a restaurant that none of us had ever eaten at, and that was reasonable, but it took a long time for us to get sandwiches. The pizza was apparently terrible, so I’m glad I got a sandwich. They got my order wrong, [...]

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Another picture taken with my new camera, this one of Fuzzball. She’s not happy in this picture, which should surprise no one. Work on Thursday was somewhat annoying. The “security upgrades” that they’re forcing through have absolutely nothing to do with security. They’re only being put in place so that the Payment Card Industry oligopoly [...]

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Wednesday, I took a personal day, so I slept late. Stephanie also took a day off, since it was her birthday. So I took her out to IKEA to go shopping for a new computer desk. She didn’t really like what they had there, so we just ate lunch there. Then we went to Costco, [...]

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Capybara sleeping! I hope to be following this fuzzy guy’s example tomorrow, since I took a personal day. Tuesday at work was a lot less interesting than it could’ve been. But boring is usually a good thing when dealing with production data. Putting new disks into the spare NFS server worked fairly well, so that’s [...]

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Monday had a relatively normal number of work things. Apparently, Stephanie was sick—food poisoning or something. Yuck. I cooked some tuna helper and helped her get groceries after work was over. I’ve also got to get up at 5am tomorrow and do more work stuff, which should be fine, but may cause unnecessary annoyance if [...]

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