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Sometimes, it seems like days just start off badly, as if the world wants to crack an eye at the sunrise, yawn, and roll over for a bit more sleep. This morning was one of those mornings. The plan was to get up in the wee hours, get the smoker going, and have some pulled . . . → Read More: Some days The question being: why do so many people get the hell out of tech? This is why. User: Mail from (IP) is being blocked. Us: What is the reject message? User: It says at this link that (IP) is listed at (some obscure spam list). Us: What is the reject message? The (IP) is not . . . → Read More: The answer to the question Last October – after recovering quite a bit from having a chunk of lung removed during the summer – my sister and I planted out 35 pounds of garlic. This July, I pulled up two of the type we had put in. This is the Lorz Italian variety. It’s a milder garlic, one . . . → Read More: No vampires here Spring was fleeting. Summer was long, and hot, and humid, and sweaty, and buggy. And vulture-y. This guy was sitting quite calmly on top of one of the compost piles during one of the hottest days in the season. I suspect he was waiting for me to keel over from heat exhaustion, but I outlasted . . . → Read More: How the season flies Facebook went down for a bit today, and apparently yesterday as well. Since I don’t hang out on facebook all day, every day, I didn’t realize they’d been down yesterday, and only noticed today because of the posts to one of the admin-type lists to which we subscribe here. I was kind of waiting for . . . → Read More: Tech funnies: outages So, you write in, telling us that you’re getting all sorts of trojans in your email. Mind you, you don’t bother to provide any evidence of anything of the sort, but someone on the staff tells you (quite correctly) that the virus definitions are always being updated, and if for some reason the server where . . . → Read More: Yet more ways to irritate tech support I haven’t really been paying attention to the main site, but apparently I probably should have, because nothing I’ve posted in the past week has shown up. This is what I get, I suppose, for looking after other peoples’ stuff better than my own. There is an automated job I use to post things that . . . → Read More: Technical difficulties I told myself when I started the previous incarnation of this blog that I’d try to avoid talking about work at all. But quite frankly, sometimes the only way to vent about something or share a funny story with other people is to put it here, so there we go. Let me tell you about . . . → Read More: Tales from the trenches Our freeze/no-freeze/frost overnight betting pool – wouldn’t you love to be the weather person, where you really don’t need to get it right, ever? – turned out to be frost. I stepped outside with my sister as she was getting ready to head to classes: lock frozen, windows iced, clear and very cold. The veggies . . . → Read More: Frosty mornings I am a huge fan of pizza, even though I rarely eat more than a bite or two these days. What true geek doesn’t like pizza and a nice caffeinated beverage to go with it? Pizzas are the staple of long support sessions, NOC cleanup/realignment nights, and gaming sessions. The fam loves pizza, and generally . . . → Read More: Geek food |
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