Somehow, in the last couple of weeks, I became a perfectionist on some projects. Not sure why, or where it came from, but a small application I’m working on, has suddently become a lot bigger than I had originally planned it. The original goal was a simple todo/request tracker, It’s now got [...]

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Another issue where scripting easily helps your day job is handling the copious amounts of log files. I handle about 15 web servers in our production environment (that I remember off the top of my head), and quite a few in our dev/stage/qa environments. These generate a lot of log files. Our [...]

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I think I’m done working today. I’ve got so many projects going on, my brain has shut down. I have 65 tasks in my inbox waiting to be delt with, that doesn’t count the projects I am actively working on, like server consolidation, or an application upgrade. Nor does it count any [...]

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As some might have noticed, a few of my recent posts have had weird extra slashes in them (here, and here). I attribute this to my recent upgrade on WP from 2.1 to 2.2, and the autoescape. I’ve managed to reproduce the issue in my development environment, so I’m working on a bug [...]

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We have a small issue in one of our products, which will be fixed in the next release. When you login, it generates an “overview” chart (4 of them actually), and writes them to disk, and displays them to the user. The problem comes when they don’t clean up. Because the code [...]

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Got a shot of the kittie this evening while playing with the grill shots. I went for the unusual square crop for the kittie. I think it works.

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Got a new toy for father’s day today. Already used it too… mmmm steak. And after, I played with my other toys to get a couple of snaps. I’ll try doing some food next time too.

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Brought to us this week by Dark Reading’s Firewalled, the real meaning of irony…

Robert Maynard, founder of identity theft protection service LifeLock, has resigned from the company because of allegations that he stole identities… including his dad’s

Further adding to this, he managed to charge $150,000 on a credit card he took out in his father’s [...]

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I couldn’t but help chuckle when I saw this. I wonder how many others have had similar thoughts…

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Even the best break every now and again. Earlier today, I gave myself a heart attack by adding a new feed to Google Reader, only to find as I hit the add, that the rest of my feeds vanished. Fortunately, it appeared to not have been just me, as many people hit up [...]

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