We don't get MLK day off. Waah. It's raining, and I wanna go home and curl up with a book.

The fact that we got back from Sacramento at about 1:30 in the morning may have something to do with it.

1) Our LDAP server at work has been playing cheap whore again. I have got to find the jerk with the roll of quarters ( Read more... )

Yahoo has a new article about workplace bullying: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061031/sc_space/studyofficebulliescreateworkplacewarzone (Link courtesy of fiona64.)

One of the salient paragraphs is this: Workplace bullying can include ( Read more... )

Purple camo BDU pants, purple came t-shirt, purple hair. I'm hiding among the purples for Halloween...

Just got through reading Is It Fair to Cater Solely to Employees With Kids? from ABC. I thought it was good, but didn't go very deep ( Read more... )

Several Linux Haiku

Auditd

System refusing
Any authentication
Auditd must die

Raid

NFS fubar
Reboot the stupid machine
Terrabyte to fsck

OpenSSH

New version coming
Built-in VPN tunnel
Corporate hates this

Debian Sarge

Burning install disks
Pocket size and bootable
I always lose them

Dear City of Palo Alto,

Thanks to your incompetence or laziness, it took me over an hour to drive from Sunnyvale to downtown Palo Alto. From the moment I crossed into Palo Alto to the moment I reached downtown proper, Every goddamn light was flashing red!! That meant that every doofus had to stop, and do the "is it my turn yet" at every friggin ( Read more... )

In resume's, that is. I am astounded at a) how many people can't handle basic singular/plural and tense (trainings, experiences, present instead of past for old jobs), b) how many people have long resumes that say little, and c) how many apparently senior people will apply for a fairly junior job, even though they are currently working in their ( Read more... )