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:
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:…
A two-fer
A banner day for overhearing in the cube farm: [That guy] must get offended at the very idea of a functioning system In re the Winter Classic Next year they need to go the next step and play that on an actual pond I think watching two NHL teams battle it out that way would…
Funner than it looks
A thing I’m working on is supposed to interact with a Scheduled Task [1] if it exists. Instead of writing out my own parser for this backwater of the Windows operating system I found something lying about at CodePlex [2]. As far as documentation goes, this one is pretty decent [3]…for a CodePlex project. Then…
Therapeutic
My first stint of four weeks between INR readings turned out to be flawless. Despite my inconsistent diet and periodic consumption of alcohol my levels have stayed within the therapeutic range ever since the Great Blood Clot and Pulmonary Embolism Fest of 2014. Best news: I get another four week reprieve before visiting the bloodsuckers…
Witty
Best quote so far of the 2014 Giant Repository Tools Relocation Effort: Powershell is very powerful, but incredibly broken as a language.