Indecision
When UI guidelines conflict. Which one do I click to cancel the defect?
CA$1 Short
The Canucks fire Gillis. Oh happy god damn day. Finally. If only we could rewind the last year or so of decisions this jackwagon has made. Only had to piss away two All-Star caliber goalies, lock up some aging veterans to illogical contracts, replace a stuffed shirt coach with a goon, and turn the farm…
Automation
Trying to automate all the crap we have to do since corporate policy doesn’t allow static service account/password combos any longer. Hey, no problem, we could use RSA keys. Except, hey, Windows doesn’t do that. So now we’re spending $FOO on some stupid utility to manage, in bulk, Windows service account logons. And $FOO is…
Hit that O Face
Sometime reality television isn’t. Or, more probably, reality television is always a fictionalized take on reality that plays to everyone’s stereotypes and prejudices. For an example we could look at Council Bluffs’ recent brush with fame. Jon “Bar Fistula” Taffer spent some time with the folks down at the O Face bar and created a…
Opening day
Happy Selig-gimmick-free, Monday-afternoon-game-in-Cincinnati, real Opening Day. Let’s play ball, gentlemen.
Wagon-free
A year and a few weeks since I last drank hard alcohol of any sort. I’m here to report things went much better this time. That and that a properly made old fashioned is a damn tasty beverage. If I’d known the bartender was doing buy-backs I probably would have downed several more.
Groan
Actually groaned at me when I told him not to work too hard on my way out the door this morning.
Show starts in *boing* seven minutes
This Mefi post compiling intermission films [1] may be my most favorite thing this week. Certainly top ten. [1] http://www.metafilter.com/137494/The-refreshment-stand-is-closed-forever
Embarrassing…
All this talk of pushing builds during branching has lodged this into my head: Ye Gods! There is no respite.
The doomed
Went visiting the waterheads downstairs to answer version control questions. They wanted email added to a post-commit hook. I recommended subscribing to the RSS feed our installation of Fisheye provides. They didn’t know what RSS was. They’re ostensibly web developers. A little bit of me died on the inside.