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Goals? Scale it down a bit
Ed. note:There's been some discussion of goals and wants in various channels. Here's some scribbling that tries to take the discussion from a cosmological (or speculatively fictional) scope down towards something that might be useful.
Life is a series of decisions and their consequences. Better access to information (d/i/k/w)data is correlated ( Read more... ) -
some new (to me) music, a different sort of mcu
I've been buying music again in fits and starts this past year and it's getting better and better. I've taken suggestions from Amazon and Apple, and plenty more from Last.FM and humans. Most of the buying has been through Amazon MP3, which has good prices and seems to generally be a lesser evil.
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Is blousing a shirt the opposite of the Picard maneuver?
Work and careers stuff may be moving along after a bad patch. There's some work and plenty of hard weeks ahead before anything changes, but a glimmer of light, be it train or exit, is welcome. On the other side of that optical phenomena is a great deal more work of a different sort, an entirely new job I've never done as dedicated staff before ( Read more... ) -
And how was your day?
Yesterday I slept in and then made it into office after lunch to catch up on some documentation and other back-burner projects I haven't had time to poke at during the work week. I did pretty well on those and then got pulled into a urgent matter that I had to sheep hurd for the next several hours. I got home late, finished off season 2 of Veronica ( Read more... ) -
Actual (joking) response to work email
Subject: RE: [service line] mysql problems this week ( Read more... ) -
Free form response fields in an ATT customer satisfaction survey.
Earlier you rated your satisfaction with the representative who assisted you a 9. What did the representative do well to receive that rating?
James was very helpful and cheerfully admitted when he did not the answer to some of my more technical questions.
Earlier you rated your willingness to recommend AT&T to a friend or colleague a 3. Please ( Read more... ) -
Lion, Anyone got the blasted thing to download right yet?
If so please clue me in. I have a useless "An error has occurred" message in App Store, an Install button that no longer clicks, a code that has already been redeemed and cannot be reused, and no log messages about any of it.
This is really making a strong argument against the App Store model being useful for anything.
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Insomnia post: Can't sleep work drama will eat me
Had a glass of water and cookie, and now to play a map or two of Dawn of War II.
Don't want to talk about work stuff that's bugging me and can't anyway, bleh. -
Insomina post: what am I doing all this for?
No sleep yet. Prospect of talking to dentists tomorrow atop the surprises at work today and continuing drama at home have brought on internal dialogue with l'ennui ( Read more... )
