Out of the office for two days without reading email, and I only have 350 new messages waiting for me this morning. It's a holiday miracle!

This is why I can't begin to contemplate taking a two-week vacation. I'm out for one day and I come back to a pile of email messages, most of them requiring my actual attention, and a big stack of stuff that absolutely must get done in the next three days. GUH! If I was out of the office for two solid weeks, I'd last about a day after my return ( Read more... )

(I even used a title this time, so y'all could be appropriately warned. )

Back in the office today, although I got in and checked email to find that my boss had given me today off to recover from last week's trip. Not that I could've taken it anyway, because I have stuff that has to be done today. I have 560 new email messages in my inbox to ( Read more... )

It's that time again: time to try and convice the Powers That Be to blow the budget on a conference. Where should I start? Yes, I realize that to have a particularly useful answer you'd need to have more information; answering polls is so much more fun when you're pulling an answer out of thin air though. ;)

Poll blowing the conference budgetMy own preferences in order are: ( Read more... )

Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!

Hacking on TWiki user registration code, or screwing around with my LJ layout to include a LibraryThing widget? If you check my sidebar, you'll see which option won out. I wish that a serif font was available for the widget, but no joy at the moment.

Easily-distractible girl's next move:

vim C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
shift+i
0.0.0.0 geekchick.livejournal.com
:q! (Let's try that one again, shall we?)
:wqTranslation: starting right about now, please don't assume I've read any LJ posts made between roughly 8:30 AM and 6:30 PM for the next week at least. Will try to catch up when I ( Read more... )

I need to come up with a list of potential training opportunities before Friday so we can start working out which ones are reasonable and which aren't. Things I'm interested in: databases, particularly mySQL and/or PostgreSQL, XML, and AJAX. Possibly very basic Java. Here's stuff I've found so far that might work:

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