Shut Yer Trap
The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic. My coworkers have been on vacation and generally AWOL, leaving me alone with all our customers. I’m accustomed to being the only guy doing work around the office, but when other emergencies come up it throws a wrench into my normally scheduled insanity. Given the way I work, as a human, it’s hard for me to write creatively when I’m stressed out. So I usually end up drinking more, playing more Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and bitching at my boss. Always productive. 🙂 One of the emergencies that ate about 20 hours of my life was the realization of what was causing I/O problems on our VMware ESX Servers. In short, because …