May 16, 2008

What’s on QA…

Had an amusing conversation with a developer at work that had the feeling of an abbot and costello bit. I’m leaving his name out of this to protect him, but he’s read this site before and will know instantly that it’s him. The conversation revolves around our new continuous integration system, and how the terminology has changed. BTW, QA=Quality Assurance, UAT= User Acceptance Testing (staging) (10:50:50 AM) morgajel: ok, so after talking to mick, it looks like my suspicions were correct

May 14, 2008

Think about it.

I see this one come up quite often, so I thought I’d share it. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words?

May 11, 2008

AT&T disappoints yet again.

So my father in law has been going on for years about how great Ameritech/ SBC/ AT&T’s new broadband service is gonna be once it was activated. I personally like the idea of having fiber to the curb, so I’ve been looking forward to it for a while. A few months back they sent a rep out to let us know they were offering ‘U-verse’ in our area. I wasn’t home at the time, so Jackie got information and said I’d get back to them.

April 28, 2008

stupid spammers

so I removed about 8 user accounts from this blog because I didn’t recognize the email address or the username. Apologies if any of those were valid. Stupid spammers.

April 7, 2008

Request Tracker 3.6.5 broken after updating Cent OS

Can’t locate object method “seek” via package “File::Temp” at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816. The underlying problem is perl was updated and overwrote the “correct” version of File::Temp that you probably installed when setting up RT and forgot about. To fix this issue cpan install File::Temp /etc/init.d/httpd restart MAKE SURE TO RESTART APACHE! I didn’t, and it cost me probably 2 hours of screwing around with it. I’m posting this because http://www.nabble.com/RT-3.6.5-and-Sendmail-error-and-looks-like-perl-error-td15989015.html Didn’t really mention what the final working solution was.

March 30, 2008

Stuff we’d need for a house.

So jackie and I were thinking, “when we do get a house, what will we need?” so we’re gonna make a list. 55 gallon outdoor garbage can shovel snow shovel rake lawnmower Drill office chair

March 30, 2008

I’ve been quiet.

So I’ve been quiet the last few weeks- mainly because I’ve been keeping busy. As a lot of you know, I have many little side projects that I never seem to get done. So here’s a quick update: – Ruma has been put into stasis since the other devs don’t have the free time and neither do I. if anyone wants to take up development of it, I’ll be happy to give them access.

March 20, 2008

Heidi Klum is watching you sleep.

So I had the following dream last night right before I woke up. It’s still pretty vivid in my head. Jackie’s friend PJ lives in the area and is sort of an SCA nut. For some reason, in the dream, she owned a small hole-in-the-wall cafe, and ran a wiccan group out of there (she’s not wiccan in reality). One day she was throwing a party and her wiccan friends were there.

February 17, 2008

My political conspiracy theory

I do my best to avoid politics on this site because it’ll always piss someone off. I don’t like the bible-thumping direction the republican party has taken over the past decade or two, and I can’t stand the democrats demands that we give up personal freedoms to save the children. I’m gonna talk about politics today because I’ve noticed something happening that’s so surreal I had to say something. I’ll use the names Candidate A, B, etc to represent the players in this little scenario.

February 3, 2008

My chair

When I moved into Secchia Hall back in the fall of 2001, my mom took me to Sams to buy my first real piece of furniture- a Desk chair. The dorm room was unfurnished, so I ended up getting a futon and a desk as well. The desk was cheaply made and only survived one move. The futon was horribly uncomfortable, and given to Jackie’s dad shortly thereafter. The only thing that followed me was the chair.