A couple of years ago CrimeThInc publish a May Day poster that I still love reading today.

I suppose after two years it actually being May Day is a good reason to share the poster! I'm certainly happy to share Beltane with the International Worker's Day. But, well, some people aren't welcomeI've recognized in myself, but forgotten from time to ( Read more... )

The only thing we have to eat here is beer.

Well, back to hot-fixing this database.

since doing our server migration, i've still basically been doing a server migration ( Read more... )

14 hours to do a server migration.

it's not even done, it's just that we don't need four of us any longer.

something tells me this could have gone more smoothly.

teh boss came just came into my office, as he needed help on one of our forensics cases. we had a big batch of files, all sharing a common header, but he said we hadn't figured out anything else about them. we needed to know which program generated them and what they were ( Read more... )

there has been a rash of odd karmic goings on around the office of late. someone from the night crew (either a security guard or someone in the cleaning crew) has been stealing things from the office. we're down a cdrom drive, digital camera, and a roll of stamps (!). until now i was kinda thinking my office was more secure than my home. now i ( Read more... )

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i've mentioned previously that my company was recently purchased (and i couldn't stop talking about ittoday a small army of human resource managers will descend on our building to provide a 97 slide presentation about how our benefits are going to change ( Read more... )

my team self organized itself into autonomous units yesterday, even giving themselves mascots and cute project names. i've never watched a team completely self organize, so i thought i'd share why they were finally motivated to do it ( Read more... )

we buy a financial data from a *lot* of companies, but all of our bills are paid by ubs. one of my data vendors called me today saying they hadn't received payment since 2004 for one of our feeds, and they were going to have to turn it off if we couldn't pay our bill ( Read more... )