My cup runneth over.

With links, that is. Trying to make this quick, and editing a few redundant links (mostly about Abu Ghraib). The Daily Kos has been hot lately – they were my source for several links lately – but I think you need to read A View from Two Oceans and No Apology – Bush Tells Arab [...]

Stuck at work

babysitting a problematic backup job. (This is just a test run – the main event is 00:47 Monday morning – but there’ll be major office drama if that one fails and keeps the CFO out of his e-mail for more than 5 minutes.) So while the tape drive churns, I’m sitting at my desk, listening [...]

Miscellany

(that word always makes me think of Animaniacs.) A recent study in London found that 71% of office workers would share their passwords for chocolate. Knowing the office workers I deal with, I’m only surprised that the percentage is that low. Mikel.org pointed me to this thought-provoking yet depressing piece in the Globe and Mail, [...]

Upgrades REALLY suck.

Damn, I had forgotten how much I hate upgrades. First, it takes 4 hours to back the silly thing up – and even now I’m not 100% certain that it got everything. Then, I have to dig through and find OS base package CDs to bring the JDK up to speed, just to install Domino; [...]

Upgrades suck.

But you knew that already. Yes, that’s right, I’m spending my hard-earned Saturday night at work. Specifically, as I type this, the system is STILL backing itself up – it’s now 22:42, and it only started at 19:00 – but the real fun starts once it finishes and I can get on there to actually [...]