Dumping ice water on your head is good and all but when my Facebook feed is >40% ice water challenge videos I’m going to say this feels a little played out. Let me know when the meme morphs into the bukkake challenge for HIV research.
I refuse to play your silly reindeer games, Starbucks. It’s small, medium, and large. Your faux Italian bullshit doesn’t fly with me.
Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch is dead! Windows Aero’s Shake “feature” [1] has to be the single most annoying GUI behavior I’ve ever run across. In fact it took more than a year to figure out why, sometimes, my desktop would immediately minimize every window except for one. Eventually I got…
I don’t listen to a lot of commercial broadcast radio so maybe this has been a thing for a long time. But, still, this is new to me. Apparently a certain segment of the vaping/e-cigarette crowd is anti-government. I heard a commercial about every seven minutes today suggesting that vaping is, amongst other awesome things,…
All those years I advocated for doing XML namespaces by the book. We’re going to want to do stuff with namespaces in the future. All those years no one else thought there was no way we’d ever want to do that and that namespaces introduce unnecessary complexity. All those years of being outvoted. Today, bitches.…
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.
So, for whatever reason, Windows Installer service doesn’t just install crap. Instead, it runs through all of the steps to an installation in some kind of imaginary sandbox thing and then it runs everything again on the live system. Sure, all of this is probably well and good. You don’t want to be halfway to…
I love the ol’ hub and spoke paradigm [1] for transporting things places. I mean, seriously, it is the most efficient methods of routing in that all points can be connected with the (number of points) minus one routes. All points can be reached in no more than two jumps. Totally efficient. Except when it…
After several iterations of arguing the denials of my request for lxml to be installed as a Python egg, my web host finally acquiesced. I think I’m going to print this out and get it framed: Hello, I apologize for the delay. We were able to install this for you: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.net [~/lxml-3.3.5]# CFLAGS=”-O0″ easy_install –install-dir=/xxxxx/xxxxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxxxx/python2.6/site-packages…
They‘re forcing you to virtualize your production SVN server. Your physical server has eight physical cores that can act as sixteen thanks to hyper-threading. The virtual machine they give you has two cores. You ask for sixteen. They hold at two. You make the switch-over and go live and the new virtual machine tanks. You…