Lots of stuff going on. The picture is because Aaron said he was “quitting caffeine cold turkey”, and not quite succeeding. Tuesday: relatively normal at work, and there was trivia afterwards. Saw almost everybody (minus Nathan and Trevor) and heard all the stuff about what’s been going on. Stephanie’s apparently planning some sort of charity [...]

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Arr, ye scurvy dogs, it be Talk Like A Pirate Day! Set back, we’ll be keelhaulin’ the politicians and the bankers momentarily. Not that much actually happened on Monday, though. I found a huge mess of data in the master DB that isn’t being used and doesn’t need to be there, so getting rid of [...]

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Friday: heard that a couple of the senior people upstairs have had it with the complete idiocy from corporate, and are leaving for greener pastures. This is great for them. This will be a total pain for those of us who are left. So this wasn’t particularly fun or exciting. No idea how much fallout [...]

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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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This harp at the MIM was sort of creepy-looking. Anyway, Tuesday had relatively ordinary work things, along with a bizarre problem. Corporate wants some stuff done. They are unwilling or unable or incompetent to send me the files necessary to get that stuff done. So, I have to subscribe to an automated service that’ll theoretically [...]

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Monday! And, as usual, Americans are angry about pretty much everything. Not sure why. While it’s certainly tempting to blame everything that’s going badly on the political party or tendency that you don’t like, I’m pretty sure the problems go much deeper than any political party. Self-interest and being a complete @#%^ for the sake [...]

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Friday! I didn’t have to work, since I had an on-call day coming from being on call all last week. So that was nice. I dropped off some canned food and dried rice at the food bank, ran some errands, spent some time reading on the couch with Moira, and checked up on Stephanie’s cats. [...]

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Tuesday had more than the usual number of things at work. “Single-sign on” is a myth; there are at least two LDAP/AD/whatever databases, and while most things use one of them, the helldesk system uses another one. This means that the password I normally use for work systems is completely out of sync with the [...]

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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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