Scheduling
I need a cron daemon [1] for my life. [1] ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/cron_4.1.shar
Glorious project
Some day I’m going to write a Kim Jong-il title generator based on this list of titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Jong-il%27s_titles. Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven indeed!
Smartest guy in the room
I’m over here by my desk watching a lot of highly educated men right up next to and peering out through the glass windows at the large hail that is coming down. What is the striking force of a golf ball sized sphere of ice traveling at terminal velocity anyway?
Tetchy!
Link spammers are now getting a bit tetchy. Here’s a sample from the spam filter for the blog’s comments:
Keeping up
There is but a tiny slice of people who will truly enjoy this. Presenting a mashup by a co-worker:
Parody
I love a good Thomas Kinkade parody: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/slide_show/1
Scraping by
My ass has been handed to me. Spent the day scraping the porch floor so we can get it painted. Various fingers and hands are stiff and swollen. Tomorrow should be a fun day at work. Only 66% of the porch to go.
Special place
That moment when you make a commit to the repository of the culmination of several days worth of grinding on a problem. This is me. The extra special sauce being that it is one of the cornerstone modules so not only do I get to watch it build before I go home, I get to…
Lessons learned
Learning lessons all day today it seems. Pretty sure I’ve learned these in the past…so obviously I’m not doing as well as I thought. When you write an MSI custom action that depends on stuff being there, make sure your custom action conditions are such that it doesn’t fire on an uninstall operation. Somewhat related:…