A friend at work asked me the other day why I was wearing a suit when it is far from required in our office, which has always subscribed to the casual, but smart, dress-code. My answer was my quite customary allusion to the fact that, should I not don the […]
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For the past two weeks I have been receiving a constant stream of e-mails from several auto-shipping companies in the US sending quotes to a so-called Kassandra Me to ship her Chevy Tahoe from Ohio to Texas, and it has been driving me up the wall. Finally one came through […]
I ALWAYS KNEW I WAS DOING IT WRONG (sorry for the caps lock). The mind boggles; if you are really so sorry for having left your caps lock on when leaving a static comment on a blog post that you would type “(sorry for caps lock)”, how about going back […]
My laptop was refusing outright to start this morning reporting a rather extreme kernel panic before even attempting to mount the encrypted logical volume, which is, of course, exactly what you want to see first thing when you arrive in the office and have no engineer on shift with you […]
FTL: Faster Than Light, is a space-ship management simulator that is widely referred to as “rogue-like” and has been gaining popularity recently, with good reason. You are at the helm of a Federation ship in possession of plans to save them from a rapidly approaching Rebel Fleet which is trying […]
This one, however, managed to lodge itself in my brain. The short of it, I was woken up for work late, and rushed to get in the car and drive to work. For whatever reason though, the road to work went via a dirt track that I used to use […]
I have a couple of rented VPS, one of them for running a Minecraft server and the second one a very basic, 128Mb RAM for $10 a year one, that I wanted to run Nagios on for monitoring a few webpages and game servers. Previously, I was running this on […]
So apparently you can now get married at McDonalds. Just when I thought I had seen everything, this comes along and blows my world-view sky-high once more. What I’m curious about is whether they offer you a choice of service, and if you choose the Christian service whether they’ll offer you […]
I hate Microsoft SharePoint with a passion. It is the most utterly useless pile of turd they have released since WinME. When viewing a folder of documents, I am given the option to “View in Windows Explorer” no matter what browser I use, but knowing the compatibility issues trying to […]
I could have sworn I just left this party. I’ve spent the past two weeks carrying my Moleskine around with me jotting down notes for this occasion, trying to work out what on earth to say about Barry, and it isn’t out of a lack of things to say about him, […]