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Last night's tornado
I'm mostly not posting here anymore, but since a bunch of folks haven't shifted over there yet, I'll point to my entry about last night's tornado over on Dreamwidth.
As a side note, if anyone needs an invitation, I have several, at the moment.
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An interesting (if retrospective) realization about Qwest IT
I had an interesting, and somewhat profound (at least to me) realization about my former employer, last night. I realized that I never - not once - heard the terms "maintenance-only" and "legacy" (fairly standard descriptions of the state of a software project) used in any way that made a distinction between them. They weren't just used ( Read more... ) -
Thought for the day
"'Mature', in a software sense, just means that it has some idea what it wants to be when it grows up, and has gotten at least a few steps along the path to that. It doesn't mean that what it wants to be isn't a poo-flinging monkey." -- me (discussing it with someone else a few minutes ago, albeit slightly rephrased to make sense in a standalone -
My perspective on it
[ This is in response to elfs' post and ysabel's response here. ]
For context: married to ysabel, used to work at the same place she still does. I escaped last fall, to a place where the software written is somewhat more mundane and "plodding" in some ways, but is actually a whole lot more satisfying than just about anything I did there.
The soul-sucking part ( Read more... ) -
True to form...
So, we have a customer who is "going live" on Monday. This means they've had their training on the system, and will, at least in theory, switch to using it full time as their primary tool in roughly 64 hours. So, what does that mean shows up on my bug list today?
That's right. A major problem involving the conversion of their data. That should have ( Read more... ) -
A ray of hope?
For those who didn't already know: I grew up in Kansas. One of the few remotely sane parts of it. So seeing this candidate for a State Representative seat in Kansas really just works for me. Even if he loses, he's already done something that will significantly change the nature of elections in the state, from here on out, I suspect.
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Shall we try thinking this one through again, ladies and gentlemen?
First, read this story about a possible new device for "airline passenger safety".
Edit@13:30: emmacrew pointed out, elsewhere, that the letter in question is two years old, and that several things in the article are inferences. I believe that much of what I say below still applies, if in somewhat different fashions, even if the device is never used for ( Read more... ) -
Done my deed for the day (hopefully it was a good one)
Postfix -- or is it prefix? I wrote this after the rest, but put it in front, so I don't know, really: this is very stream-of-consciousness writing. It is a brain dump without any attempt made to clean it up. I'm writing it for me, not for an audience ( Read more... ) -
Geekery, part 2
And, courtesy of zylch, the geekery of a speed-cabling competitionTo which my response is: Bah ( Read more... ) -
Geekery, part 1
Warning! Utter and complete geekery ahead!
Someone I know online recently posted a link to a Google Tech Talk about a class that starts with basic NOR gates and builds all the way up to a basic ALU, on the hardware side (well, emulated hardware, anyway), as well as writing low-level BIOS/OS routines to work with the hardware. And then user ( Read more... )