Weekend’s over, back to work. This wasn’t actually that bad, even though a bunch of stuff had piled up and needed to be cleared. There were some problems with mail, and some weirdness with a database, but those were things I could handle. The plan™ for trivia is for everyone to go on the first [...]

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Friday: Tons of stuff to do at work. It seemed like everyone and their brother had a minor request or a series of them, and I was on the hook for all of them. At least they canceled the 1pm meeting, though they scheduled another meeting at 3pm. Nobody was really happy to have a [...]

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Wednesday was a lot more annoying than it should’ve been. A third-party vendor ran a DROP DATABASE on the main database we’re replicating, and that broke a bunch of our stuff. What really made me feel good was the way a “tech” said, “Oh yeah, there’s some instability with the system, so errors build up, [...]

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Monday. Heck. It seemed like a long string of relatively minor requests, punctuated by more complex and time-consuming stuff. And it all mostly worked. Until I got called after I’d finished dinner. Someone somewhere had approved a project/something that was using a bunch of code that was never designed to do what they wanted it [...]

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Been a while. Lots of stuff. So: Tuesday, work was roughly normal, though we got unexpected news of some big changes. One of the managers who’s been working with us a lot got promoted/transferred/kicked upstairs, and this could cause all kinds of interesting things to happen. It could add much-needed sanity to some things, or [...]

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Monday: waded through the Augean Stables that my e-mailbox had become, and put out a number of fires that had cropped up while I was away. There wasn’t a whole lot that was really going on, actually. Tuesday: Found a serious filesystem problem on one of the backup machines. Somehow, it thought that one of [...]

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Monday! Well, there wasn’t that much really going on. A box had far too little disk space. After talking with some other folks, I figured out how we could reclaim at least a few percent of that space without causing any problems. We should be good for another month or two, we hope. (Our servers [...]

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Wednesday had relatively ordinary work things, followed by Rock Band 3 with spicy pork chops, rolls, and hearty peasant fare. There was a fairly new Lady Gaga song pack available for download, and Stephanie wanted that, so we got that. We also got to hear all about Steve’s adventures at Comicon. There was no Rock [...]

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Both Monday and Tuesday had more than the usual number of annoyances at work. I at least got some stuff done on Monday. Tuesday, thanks to a problem that didn’t make any sense and that no one could explain well, my OS X box was basically unusable all morning. Ah well. At least I could [...]

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Monday. Everyone’s favorite day. Well, it wasn’t all that bad, considering. We got news that some people from corporate said, “We think the architecture you’ve built for your site isn’t adequate. So we’ve gone with another vendor for our new initiative. They have fewer problems than you guys have. We think that in 10 weeks, [...]

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