An epic fail in webmastering
This post is going to be riddled with fail, most of it mine. The short version is, my site has been down for over two weeks and it took me a week and a half to even notice it. That, of course describes fail number one and fail number two, but there’s plenty more fail [...]
Rare Knowledge Is Often Unrewarded
I was reflecting today on a joke koan that I read, somewhere, I can’t remember where (and I’ve added to it): A locomotive breaks down and an engineer is called in to fix it. The engineer listens to the sounds of the locomotive, reaches in his tool box and pulls out a hammer. He crawls [...]
Crap. I’m Growing Man Boobs!
McDonalds: its been real, its been fun, but I think we need to see other people. I lightly” pulled a muscle in my chest today while averting a fall due to not watching where I was going. A little while ago, I was rubbing the sore spot and noticed something I had not noticed before [...]
Site Stupidity – Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Read The News
There are some individuals and organizations that should be prohibited by law from making web sites. Just like free speech can quickly degenerate into disorderly conduct, web sites can quickly degenerate into viciously loud, annoying and angry fruit salads. Here’s my morning routine – Get coffee, go through RSS reader, get email. I suppose it [...]
But I Just HAD A Vacation!
For the second time in a week, I forgot where I put something and then forgot what I was looking for, while looking for whatever it was that I lost. I need a vacation to recover from my vacation. Somehow, I suspect that this infinitely recursive need to recover from one’s own vacation plagues most [...]
An Interesting Copyright Question
I found these shots from someone who buys unexposed rolls and plates and then attempts to process them. I found those after following up on another awesome find. An interesting question entered my mind while I was viewing the photos: Some of the best stuff (I think) I have ever done lives on unprocessed rolls [...]
‘Crumby’ Engineering Shuts Down The LHC (Again)
The truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. In case you did not know, the LHC was shut down again, this time due to a passing bird dropping a bread crumb into some of its external (exposed) machinery. Insert your favorite AHEM.. here. This caused a spike that produced so much heat that the collider’s fail [...]
How To Be A Software Architect
I noticed a rather subjective question on Stack Overflow today, someone wanted to know the ‘best way’ of moving away from being a software developer and in to being a software architect. I was about to reply, but the first answer I saw really said it all: Stop doing anything that might be misconstrued as [...]
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