That moment when

That moment when you’ve managed to crawl so far back up the rabbit hole of interrupts that you forgot what you were working on before the interruption just satisfied. I cannot remember if there is another question I’m supposed to be answering or task to complete or if I can go back to doing code…

Sportswriters

Unbridled optimism or hopelessly naive?  You make the call: In a story relating how a team gave up seven goals in the third in a game they had been leading 3 – 0, on their way to their twelfth loss in fourteen games, be sure to mention how they’re still four points out from the…

Your own, personal barometer

Judging by the burning, throbbing pain where I broke my leg twenty-some odd years ago, we’re about to experience a storm of biblical proportions. The National Weather Service begs to differ.

Working smarter, not harder

New-to-me Windows DOS commands that are equivalent to bash commands that I always use. Another in a long series. runas [1] Equivalent to sudo, allows one to run commands as a different user assuming one knows the password for that user pushd [2] Maps a network location as a volume popd [3] Drops that mapping…

Go hockey

For once the NHL trade deadline is more entertaining than MLB’s. Watching the Canucks as sellers is kind of difficult though. Especially if Kesler goes (as is anticipated). 

Jenkins agent logs

It’s always fun to read Jenkins agent logs in the voice of Dobby. For example: Feb 28, 2014 9:52:50 AM hudson.remoting.Engine waitForServerToBack INFO: Master isn’t ready to talk to us. Will retry again: response code=503

Metajoke

So I’ve installed the Cloud to Butt plugin [1] for Mozilla (Chrome extension here [2]). I’ve probably mentioned it before. If not, it simply replaces instances of ‘the cloud’ with ‘my butt’ on any web page that gets loaded. Today I looked at the plugin page because I was mentioning it to someone else. Even…