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It Was a Day Of Highs, It Was a Day Of Lows
Highs: Today was food-day at work. There are about a gajillion different things to eat and drink in the kitchen today, and lots of them yummy even. Lows: “backup” is a poor password for the “backup”...
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Office Dwelling
Today, for the first time since August of 1997, I became the occupant of an office at work. The entire past nearly-eight years have been spent either in a machine-room, a cubicle, or working from home....
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In God’s Country
There’s advantages to living and working out in the middle of nowhere. It’s usually cheap to live, low crime, all sorts of benefits like that. The downsides, though, are like today, for example. I’m...
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The Vending Machine Likes Me
Ever since I got a fridge in my office, I haven’t had much use for the office vending machine. Basically only when I don’t have what I want pre-stocked in my fridge. Although, it’s interesting to note...
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Crappy Day
It’s been a really crappy day, and I’ve got nobody to point to except myself for that. In the scope of my eight hours here today, I have: failed to notice that two of our six SSL certificates were...
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Network Architecture
Oh my god, I can’t believe how piss-poor the network design is in some companies. Like, say, the one I work at. NetworkAdmin comes wandering around the IT department asking “is anyone downloading...
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Work/Blog Collision
So NetworkAdmin read my post yesterday wherein I ranted about the sorry state of affairs in our network implementation. The conversation that followed went fairly poorly, but devolved to “send him any...
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Office Annoyances
There is one huge thing I hate in many offices. A lot of people have their phone systems set up so that if you dial an internal extension, instead of the phone just ringing until whomever you called...
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Fucking Vultures, I’m Tellin’ Ya
As my last day at $ORKPLACE nears, the vultures have been circling for days around my office, looking for things they can steal for their own environments. Yesterday, the Marketing department demanded...
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Assumptions
They make an ass out of you and umption. It’s true. I made an assumption that the “firewall” was configured to actually be a “firewall” (as in “only the necessary services permitted inbound, to the...
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