We have a weird issue at work where an import task will occasionally hang waiting for nothing. This can sometimes be harmless, and othertimes disastrous. When it’s disastrous, it causes the main table in our database to be locked, denying other services/users from performing any inserts, or updates, or even selects. This [...]

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This year, all chaos and mayhem is going to break lose. Well, at least that’s the theory. This year the Government decided to bump the DST from April to March. This isn’t too bad, until you start to think of the impact of all the computers having the wrong time. Fortunately, [...]

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Being pretty much stuck on Windows due to the tools I have to use (Outlook, Visual Studio, SQL Enterprise Manager), I find that developing home stuff a little bit of a challenge. Sometimes I’ll SSH into one of my development boxes, and work from there, but it becomes a bit of a strain jumping [...]

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Recently I’ve felt this urge not to work at all. I’m not sure why. I think it’s just a case of procrastination. I have plenty of things to do, though some require after hours work (switch upgrades, new rack PDUs, etc) which I normally enjoy doing. However, I’ve not been feeling [...]

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I hate it when people don’t like what I tell them.

We are currently having an issue with some of our servers caused by a core switch. As they are not entirely sure what is wrong with it, they have not set an ETA, which I passed onto the parties affected by this [...]

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Well, I took a leap, and upgraded to WP2.1. Quite a smooth upgrade. Of course, I demo’d the upgrade on my dev box at home, and found the only plugin I had to upgrade was the markdown plugin as it generated preg_replace errors. Once upgraded, all was smooth sailing again.

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Some people cannot drive. I had somebody reverse into my car whilst driving out of the carpark yesterday. Fortunately no bodywork was damaged. Just got to get my alignment fixed… again as she hit my wheel as I was turning to avoid her.

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