There is nothing I love more than getting up at 5 AM to patch and reboot servers. Not. It is nice, though, to have the world to myself at this hour. Quiet, peaceful. If it wasn’t for the fact that I only got three hours of sleep I’d be in heaven. I know I’ll be dragging later today. I almost forgot it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! Hmm, going to have to get a few more instances of “Avast!” into my lexicon today. Arrrr.
Hot damn, the Twins are 1 game back from the Tigers in the AL Central, with the White Sox 5 games back. They play Boston, Baltimore, and Kansas City before facing the White Sox at the very end of the season. I’m bored so I’m going to try to predict the division winner. I’ve never done this before, and I’ll just use the blog as my notepad. 🙂 Read through and if you think I’m wrong leave your prediction as a comment. They swept Boston last time, 3-0 for the season. They went 2-1 with the Orioles both other times they faced them. They’ve had the worst time with Kansas City, though, 9-6 on the season. Detroit is 9-1 against …
Conglomerate Blog: Bike Helmet Paradox See, I knew my not wearing a helmet was fine.
When people comment on my blog I like going to their web sites to see what they have going on. Mark from Blipverts was reminding me of Apple Lossless Encoding, and in reading his blog caught the news about Hans Reiser. A couple of observations: 1) The couple married in 1999. She emigrated to the U.S. about six years ago. She’s twelve years younger than him, which isn’t a huge deal but seems to be another data point. Um, mail order bride? She was 23-24 in 1999… 2) You don’t re-drug people, they come over and continue to do drugs with you, and then engage in all the random sexual acts. People don’t hang out with other people that drug …
Dear anybody who develops an application to play music, One word: FLAC. It’s free, it’s open, it’s what I’m reripping all my CDs into. Apple, it would be absolutely killer if you supported FLAC in iTunes, and automatically transcoded into MP3 for my iPod. But I’m not going to hold my breath, since you only add features that generate revenue. This also means you, last.fm. Why don’t you work with FLAC files playing through WinAMP? …Bob
One of the biggest differences between a senior system administrator and a junior system administrator lies in knowledge of their own knowledge. Both know a vast quantity of information but the senior admin has the ability to say “I don’t know” when he needs to research something further. He does not see that phrase as an admission of weakness but as a promise to not mislead the person asking the question with an inaccurate answer. A good customer, employer, or colleague will appreciate this trait, especially when the correct answer is supplied in a timely fashion.
I hate things that make my life difficult. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 does just that. Its installer will not install the product on Windows Server 2003, which is what my desktop happens to be. I argue that Windows Server 2003 is higher than Windows XP SP2 (for many uses of the word “high”). This crap drives me nuts. I can see a company saying that they don’t want to support their product on certain OSes, but just tell people “This is an unsupported OS and we will not help you when you have problems.” Then give them the option to install anyhow. Sometimes I can cheat and have Windows run apps in “compatibility mode” where it pretends to be XP. …
I just had my first known Akismet false positive: my own comment in response to iowagreyhound‘s got flagged as spam. I hate moments like this, because now I wonder if others have been marked as spam and I’ve just summarily deleted them. Sorry if I have, I certainly didn’t mean to. I’ve been getting between 30 and 100 spam comments a day now, which I think is just crazy.
One of the biggest differences between a senior system administrator and a junior system administrator lies in laziness. Both are equally lazy, but the senior admin is not self-conscious and plans accordingly. The junior admin does not admit such things so to look strong, yet tasks are left undone or completed in haste.
Aftermath | 17 | David Burnett — Photojournalist Damn cool photo.