Stone's Observation: It always takes longer than you expect, especially when you don't take Hofstadter's Law into account.

NORAD intelligence reports indicate that Santa does not experience time the way we do. His Christmas Eve trip seems to take 24 hours to us, but to Santa it might last days, weeks or even months. Santa would not want to rush the important job of delivering presents to children and spreading Christmas to everyone, so the only logical conclusion is ( Read more... )

Synchronize your ntp servers, 'cause 1234567890 is coming!

This Friday at 4:31:30 PM Mountain time, it will be 1234567890 seconds* since midnight on January 1st, 1970 Coordinated Universal Time. That moment marks the Unix epoch, time 0 -- the reference point for a great many computer systems today. This moment on Friday is special because it ( Read more... )

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Dear Retail Stores ( Read more... )

Take two: Daylight Saving Time starts tomorrow. As a celebration of spring it's raining right now which may help wash away the piles of dirty snow still lurking in parking lots ( Read more... )

Remember Americans: In an effort to save energy, Daylight Saving Time starts tomorrow (Sunday). Be prepared for random computer output being off an error if the latest zoneinfo/OS upgrades have not been applied.Scratch that. My wall calendar has day numbers at the bottom of the box but holidays at the top of the box. I tried to check time.nist. ( Read more... )

I logged 192.75 total hours at work this month, including 8 hours a day for vacation and Labor Day (total 32). 69.25 were programming and 36.5 were admin, a respectable ratio.

I'm getting better at this game.

I just finished my time sheet for August. I'll have completed 206 hours, 80 of which are All Purpose Leave (also known as "Vacation"). I feel a lot better about the time spent at work as well -- 70.75 hours logged in programming (and related activities like design discussions and bugzilla organization) well exceeds the 28.25 hours of admin (like ( Read more... )

Paraphrase of a conversation between flwyd and tamhealsT: ... that's because you don't have a blind spot in the area of money ( Read more... )