Posts Tagged ‘My Life’
For the past couple of years I have been submitting an abstract to try to get published at a company wide conference for systems engineers and software engineers. For the past two years I have gotten back a “thanks, but no thanks” letter from them. Apparently I am just unsure of what they are looking […]
The [Movable Type][] manual leaves much to be desired, but the good news is that there is a web site on [Learning Movable Type][] which had an excellent article on [using suexec][] which my [web host][] recently startedd using. All of this comes up because of a [bug in PhpBB][] which allowed for the defacement […]
Last year my company sent out a security refresher, reminding us to think twice about the information were handing over to people. It included the following gem of information: > _Never_ provide anyone with more information than is absolutely necessary to accomplish your objectives. Sounds like some sound advice for an environment of trust and […]
From an email I sent this morning to someone who used to work on the project that I work now: Four years after starting this, I think I finally understand the orginal purpose for the one of your classes. I’ve made plans to put it back into the code. It’s just been one of those […]
Q: Why is it that slopping coding always comes back to bite me in the ass? A: Because we like to make our own lives miserable. Of course, Kim has to update Steph’s answer with something grounded in reality: “We never have time to do it right the first time, but always have time to […]
And with it, a new status designation that makes no sense to anyone else: > More flip flops that a John Kerry wannabe.
I’m _still_ betting on the monkeys.
A new site design is finished (at least the main page). Perhaps with this one I will actually get around to finishing the other pages also. Other things to finish include an overhaul of the categories and posting more often. Let me know what you think.
A while back a friend wrote a poignant piece on what Danger is: > Some say that danger lies in unknown situations and unpredictable circumstances. I say danger, true danger, lies in knowing exactly what is ahead, yet walking into the fray anyway. To have so much disregard for one’s own intuition is to be […]
Human memory is a wierd thing: it seems that important things come and go, while other semi-useless bits remain around. Like these vocal warmup exercises I learned in my high school drama club: * Roll those big round vowel sounds * She makes a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot * What […]