cnn.com top story: VOICE OF A KILLER: Shooter's twisted video rant ( Read more... )

Don't ever try to install a domain controller that uses a different computer for DNS.  It is painfully nonobvious.  Fortunately my boss is a genius ( Read more... )

Katte had surgery today, a bit of slicing, dicing, and biopsing, and I wasn't able to drive her there (and more importantly, drive her home).  Jared cheerfully volunteered to help out in exchange for Katte's home-cooked food.  Since Katte was ready to kill me for not being there, Jared basically saved my life. :)

I should also mention that 
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Arise, LJ, arise!

Arise!

So I made a new year's resolution to update my Live Journal occasionally.  Now that the year is one-third over, I guess I should get started.

It's day five of training at Teleperformance's Dell Project training.  I took the job to cover some nasty gaps in our finances.  I figured it would be boring, but I didn't think it would ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last full-time day at Totally Awesome. I didn't get a chance to fully train my replacement, but between the evenings when I'll be able to help him out, and the 18 pages of procedure I printed out, he should be just fine. Fortunately the company has a stable product line, so it's not like I'm thrusting any emergencies on the poor ( Read more... )

That's you, brother Jared. I can't understand half of what you say, but somebody on the web must. Your writing is far more interesting than, say, John Carmack, and thousands of people read his blog ( Read more... )

Not that I'm a vehement hater of the guy or anything. He's just a clumsy Machiavellian.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/bush_countdown.html

The mini-Katte is in her room cleaning up (supposedly), Katte is relaxing after making dinner, and I just finished washing dishes. There are loads of laundry in the washer and dryer, and damned if I didn't just wash the kitchen table. I need to vacuum though. Haven't done that for a very long time. Katte's right. We need a proper vacuum ( Read more... )

My brother sent me this email. Food for thought, if you will ( Read more... )

Yes, they do. They put out orange barrels on random busy roads and leave them there for a couple of weeks, then they remove the barrels.