I go to work early. Partly because I start to fade around 2 or 3 even when I sleep disgustingly late, and it makes sense to get in as much that needs thinking and a functioning brain before my body decides “hell no”. Unfortunately that means if I’ve got to stay late – like today Read More…
Quiet Day
Quiet day at work today – I spent a good chunk of it decommissioning my collection of Windows XP virtual machines and setting up a series of Windows 7 virtuals to replace them. Why do I need so many, I hear you ask? Well, if you want to test a website properly, you need multiple Read More…
Little Things Matter
Also known as “Fun with testing software, episode the infinity-somethingth”. Today at work the helpdesk calls were coming in fast, all from the customers using the venerable (but stable and more importantly usually working) PC payroll program, complaining that their new FTP passwords (they’re reset periodically for security reasons) to our systems weren’t being accepted. Read More…
Progress, and a realization
The FTP problem is solved. For reasons known only to itself, the software that runs the backend of my hosting provider decided it would cache the error message. Once I cleared cache, I reset my password and all is happy. This brought about a rather unwelcome realization. It is not the case that there are Read More…
Roadblocks
So, after realizing I hadn’t posted anything here in forever (well, over a year), I figured I needed to get back to this. Yeah. Right. Hello, life! My FTP access isn’t working (as in, the saved password is getting rejected) so I can’t finish updating (and ye gods the updates that are waiting on this Read More…
Modernity
I have, after much delay, finally entered the modern world of telephony. Yes, I’ve finally retired the antique PDA (dead) and cell phone (dying) in favor of a shiny new smartphone. Of course, being me, the first thing I did was load Temple Run 2 on it. That game is a very effective way to Read More…
Jokes Gone Sour
For the longest time I regarded politics with a kind of detached amusement: a joke that didn’t really affect me all that much. Over the last few years it’s become obvious that I can’t do this any more. You see, once you’d elect your political jokes every few years, laugh at their worst idiocy, and Read More…
Next Big Thing
So, Chris McMahon tagged me in the ongoing blog chain of the Next Big Thing. Me being itty-bitty writer-thing and currently brain-dead exhausted as well, it’s a good thing I wrote the guts of this last week. The rules: 1. Give credit to the person/blog that tagged you. Did this 2. Post the rules for Read More…
Exhausted
Adventures in Transit
So, driving to work is 2 hours each way, most of that in glorified parking lot conditions (off-peak it’s a 1 hour trip). So tomorrow I”m trying the train option – which consists of driving to the nearest rail station, catching the train in, and walking from there to work. If I’m going to spend Read More…