Work: I’ve been fighting with a problem that’s essentially unfixable for long enough that I’m hard pressed to care much anymore. Especially since I didn’t get to go to trivia tonight—had to do more work.
The root cause of 90% of the problems I’ve had with this whole process is that Microsoft Outlook can [...]

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Sunday, I really wanted to emulate this kitten. However, I had to work. I had almost all the problems fixed, when a couple of pieces of networking equipment in the secondary datacenter fell over. That caused way too much grief for everyone involved, and took a couple of hours of finangling to [...]

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Naturally, Friday came with its own stupid crisis. It consumed hours at work and hours after work, and will consume hours of my time tomorrow and probably Sunday. All because some clueless suit’s favorite “e-mail client” is incapable of rendering modern HTML. So yeah, not a fun day.

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Somehow, I don’t think this picture is totally legit. Otters have dextrous paws. They also have better taste in beer than to just take a Bud Light.
Wednesday was reasonably normal at work, though I didn’t get the chance to test a large new script fully and was reluctant to put it into production [...]

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“Disappoint” only begins to cover it. Every day this week, I’ve had a trouble ticket outside of work hours, sometimes warranted (like yesterday), more often not. Today was no exception. At least I had until 7:30pm today before I got a ticket—which was pretty vague. And the person who’d complained wasn’t [...]

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Stupid problems at work: Some third-party consluttants want us to solve a problem which is not a problem and doesn’t have a solution. I don’t know what we’ll end up doing, but it’s really frustrating trying to solve a bureaucratic problem when the only tools I have are technical in nature.[*]
We ate out for [...]

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Wednesday, I worked from home. At least I tried to work from home. This extremely badly implemented idiocy from McAfee made it so that I was unable to work from home for several hours. I wonder if anyone who works there will get yelled at for that? Scratch that, I wonder if [...]

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Work was fairly normal on Tuesday. What wasn’t normal was the two helldesk calls I got, one while I was on the bus, one while I was at trivia. I was late for dinner because of the first call, and had to leave trivia in the middle of it because of the second [...]

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Here’s another picture of the art Jeep that we saw on Tuesday. It’s a bit annoying how bad the images from my cellphone camera are in low light, but what the heck.
Thursday had some fairly normal work stuff. Apparently, something was always working in Real Browsers, but it started failing in IE a [...]

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After way too much fiddling around, I got my phone to talk to my Gentoo laptop via Bluetooth. This is one of the pictures I took at the Highland Games last Saturday. I didn’t get haggis, though, since I’d already gotten a sausage spiced like a traditional haggis. Maybe next time.
Anyway, here’s [...]

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