As usual, it’s been a very long, tiring, and full set of days. Too much has happened to write it all down. Wednesday, someone did a DROP DATABASE on a production database that was in use. Fortunately, this wasn’t one of the insanely important databases. We still had to scramble for the backups and retrieve [...]

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Looong week. Still more stuff ahead. Don’t know how frequent updates will be. So, links in lieu of content: A brief history of arms races. Gannett has aimed a loaded shotgun at its feet, and is poised to pull the trigger. The sheer dumbassery involved would be *amusing* if it didn’t directly affect a bunch [...]

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Whoof. Tons of stuff happening at work, so much so that I really don’t want to write about it. I’m glad I have the day off tomorrow. I could sure use it. At least on Feb 16, we all had lunch at Bliss:Rebar with Chris and Alex, and that was kind of fun even though [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope you all had something more like these bunnies than like anything terrible or stupid. Stephanie and I exchanged small presents this morning. We decided to go out to dinner tomorrow instead of today, since everybody and their brother would be out today, and it’ll be a lot easier to get a [...]

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Anyway. Work’s been alternately boring and depressing. I haven’t felt much like writing about life lately, which is why there have been few entries recently. But apparently John Common can not pay his employees, not pay his suppliers, not pay child support, and get nothing but a slap on the wrist. <SARCASM> This really makes [...]

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It’s been an annoying few days. The worst thing, of course, is that our corporate overlords are hell-bent on installing a paywall on the website, which has been free since its beginning. Anyone who knows anything about the Internet knows that this is astoundingly stupid. Putting a paywall on a newspaper website approaches Paul Cristofero-like [...]

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Wombats: They’re a lot cuter than you might think. Saturday: not really that much happened. I got groceries and helped Stephanie sort through some of her stuff before donating it to the Salvation Army. Stephanie made dinner, a sort of homemade Kung Pao chicken with noodles and rice. We were channel-flipping after dinner, and ran [...]

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McBubble and Squeak, anyone? Didn’t think so. Wednesday: more stuff at work, though some of the really terrible problems have been solved. They wanted to install Bugzilla. I tried that, and found that the automatic dependency-resolving mechanisms in it don’t work. This took a while to solve. Fortunately, I’ve been through this particular rodeo before, [...]

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Tuesday! Always a good day. Mostly. I solved a few problems in the morning, then got sidetracked by things like our entire floor not having any coffee anywhere. We finally found some, though. And then later in the afternoon, I ran into some other stuff that has no easy solution. Well, it didn’t at the [...]

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Sunday: Not that much, really. I got some reading done and made dinner. Stephanie and I channel-flipped for a while and found an episode of “Criminal Minds”, which was actually better than I was expecting. I’m not sure if it’d be worth it to grab the earlier seasons of it on Netflix. Then I sacked [...]

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