I know it's not a story about a Japanese girl and her pet dog, but this one actually brought me to tears. Rugged, manly tears. Yeah.

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A few weeks ago I had a song in my head at work. Normally, my solution is to just play the song through and get on with my life. However, this song was on a CD at home and I just didn't have a way to play it. A few hours later, it occurred to me to look it up on You Tube and a few seconds later I was happy bopping around in my chair to She's a ( Read more... )

The past two weeks at work have been just a tad insane. I'm:

• Responsible for the successful delivery (dev/doc/qa) of one feature.
  
• Writing the documentation for that feature.
  
• Training product management on the feature for our big user conference next month.
  
• Learning about the feature I'm taking over in May.
  
• Writing installation and upgrade guides ( Read more... )

My cousin's wireless network was hacked over the weekend. He gave me a call asking what to do. Basically, he had left his network open and knew his neighbours were using his internet connection, but didn't really worry about it. Then, someone took the liberty of securing his network for him. We were both pretty outraged by this... I mean using ( Read more... )

A few of us were asked to bake cookies for work tomorrow and bring them in. We have a small snack time every other Wednesday and the organizer thought it would be nice to make the theme milk and cookies ( Read more... )

Tonight was my second consecutive trip to the gym without any climb-mates. I could have teamed up with someone at the gym, but on both nights, I decided to try something a little different and just bouldered for a couple of hours ( Read more... )

A few of us at work have been asked to bake cookies for a thing next week. Today, we got the list of what was coming in. Here we go:

• Peanut butter chocolate chip.
  
• Chocolate chip and butterscotch chip.
  
• Snickerdoodles.
  
• Gluten free chocolate chip.
  

I can forgive the gluten free cookies, because those are some pretty crazy constraints. But variety ( Read more... )

I saw this set of Firefox Pranks last night and thought I'd install them as an April Fool's prank for the wife. After installing the extension, I tested it by going to YouTube and confirming that Rick Astley was coming up for a bunch of the links ( Read more... )

Okay, new rule. After brushing your teeth, beige foods (breads, cheeses, cereals) and green foods (lettuce) are okay. Anything else is off limits. This includes the well known orange and the recently discovered strawberry. Bad, bad, bad combination. Ick.

I got a nice compliment from our Lead Developer today. We were comparing notes about folks on the team and he said that what makes me different from other people on the team is that I'll actually try to do things myself instead of just taking a developer's word for it. What makes my documentation solid is that I try to understand what I'm talking ( Read more... )