Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

Back from the Ancient Mariners of Invention get-together. I think I'm only going because three other people from my Monday designfest group are there and I'd possibly be otherwise conspicuous by my absence ( Read more... )

Well, it's the school holidays, the state fair is on for the whole week (starting today), and the local most popular sport's final match for the year was also broadcast. So it's not surprising that the real estate agent in charge of the home open hasn't called with news of hundreds of people pouring into the house ( Read more... )

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Nothing like spontaneously entering talks with the inventor of a world-changing technology for clearing the synapses ( Read more... )

Despite the internet, we still get movies later here than the US does, on average. However, after having seen The Golden Compass, there hasn't been much at the cinema to attract me. Fortunately, In the Shadow of the Moon and Jumper should be out next month.

Is there anything on your must-see lists, O flist?

I'm mentally tuning out at work. There's nothing there to interest me, I only have a couple of weeks left on the contract, and I find myself thinking about anything other than the boring stacks of paperwork to be ground through ( Read more... )

Did the interview today. Blah blah, answered all the stock questions, asked a couple of my own, the whole thing degenerated into swapping anecdotes. Pretty much par for the course.

They're a national grain shipping company, with at least four shipping terminals along the coast. So of course, they wanted to know how experienced I was with cereal

Damn, work is depressing. My co-workers present a mental capacity in line with having been forced to watch soap operas for seven years straight. There's a programmer or two, but they can't seem to point their skillset at anything useful. Meanwhile, my fading neurons are rattling around like a superball in the wash ( Read more... )

Mailed the rewrite. Ken the Mortgage Guy has said that things aren't sorted out yet. Le sigh, again ( Read more... )