After this past week, I would like to make a declaration ( Read more... )

My employer is reworking our IT infrastructure and we're looking for vendors for two changes ( Read more... )

The last job I had where food theft was an issue had pretty well entrenched racism. All I had to do was bring in Indian or Chinese food and the people who were inclined to steal food left mine alone. I still remember one woman complaining about my Tandoori Chicken by using a racial slur for someone of Chinese descent. She pretty much grouped all of ( Read more... )

Something is wrong with the decryption code I've been given. I also think I have the wrong password ( Read more... )

I ended up leaving work about 20 minutes later than I was supposed to, but it was because I had discovered I could make key changes to production servers that were originally going to require me to go in on Saturday. 20 extra minutes to eliminate a Saturday afternoon visit to to office is a very good thing.

Foreign key constraints on data that will be deleted can have "issues" if you don't set the bastards to cascade on delete.

What follows is a handy guide for telling how hard the task at hand is and what I'm up to, based upon what you can hear from just outside my office door.

Silence:
I'm at lunch or making coffee.

"What the f**k?" followed by a string of quiet profanities:
I'm reading documentation or reviewing old code (sometimes mine) that is comical in how flawed I ( Read more... )

Monday was a true Monday. I got into the office and the floor squelched. The carpet was soaked as a result of the air conditioner leaking all weekend. To make a long story short I spent the day moving things off the floor and reconfiguring my work area so the two PCs I need for my job could function again. By the end of the day my allergies had ( Read more... )

There is no spoon, only Zuul.

Oh, and I REALLY HATE computers right now. As a programmer this is a problem.

I was out with friends last night. (Shadowrun campaign, yes I am a geek ( Read more... )