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Alive
It's apparently been a long time since I posted here. Oops.
My current blog is doing a little better, averaging a bit better than a post a month. http://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/
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Sequel doesn't suck
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End. Bought it on DVD so that HederaIvy could get her Johnny Depp fix, we watched it last night. Didn't bother with the cinema after #2 which wasn't _bad_ and definitely had a full story in it, but did leave me irritated that they cut off the story where they did; thus I didn't have high hopes ( Read more... ) -
Enchanted
We just got back from watching Enchanted (IMDBAt the start, I nearly became diabetic and needed insulin ( Read more... ) -
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When designing systems intended for use by "normal people", it's important to remember about the bell curve. I've had to remind Support Dept staff that the customers calling them with problems are not a representative example of customers or people in general, or the computer savvy of normal people, but people who've already called in for help ( Read more... ) -
IMAP, SASL, Sieve, Perl, and other assorted weirdnesses.
A long weekend. Some old Perl. What to do, but fix it? Then rant about the suckiness of SASL in Perl. And talk about actions long past, since I so rarely post anything.
I finally solved a problem with my sieve-connect client for the ManageSieve protocol not working with GSSAPI at work. It wasn't, per se, a bug in my code; there was just no ( Read more... ) -
A post, that I shall have posted
"Last updated 58 weeks ago". Hrm.
And the LiveJournal fluffy one-question questionnaire to the right which dares to suggest, quite heinously, that I might have writer's block. Fie! -
Boo
Is anyone there?
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(Untitled)
Testing Deepest Sender, so that hederaivy can tell a friend if it works here or not.
As this is a test, please do ignore it. Failure to ignore this post may result in revocation of your membership of the League Of Test Viewers. -
hrm
So, uhm, does it show that I don't post to LiveJournal often?
Just not a blogging/journalling/whatever type, I guess. -
Feeling like a right sucker
For five years, I've been performing call-duty. One week in a rota. The money was never much, but then originally the call-duty was such that we only ever got called for failures of systems we controlled.
After much messing around, we have a new proposal from the company ( Read more... )