Earlier today, somebody mentioned not being able to get to the internet, but didn’t seem to be having any issues getting to local resources (file server, printers, etc). They also mentioned that they had seen a meesage about IP address conflicts with another computer. This is a little interesting trying to debug, because [...]

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Something has been bugging me since I started using Firefox, and Thunderbird, and sadly it has little to do with the actually application, but rather the site for both of the applications.

The first was the Mozilla team’s decision to use the same file extension for their application extensions (plugins). Why is this [...]

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Whilst attempting to debug some work issues with a vendor today, I stumbled across some amusing comments in the code..

We need to find a model for you. Easy there tiger, we’re talking cars here…

We need to stop here to ask a few questions to Bubba!

We (what is this we shit) I know what model you [...]

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Can’t but help laugh when watching F1. During qualifying, there was a quick interview with Nico Rosberg over performance issues with his car.

I have a good feeling, but I’m not allowed to say, as last time I got a good bollocking

To which the person quizing him responded…

Could you translate bollocking for our American audience?

The [...]

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I’ve been asked to perform an upgrade for one of our vendors to a new version of our software. Unfortunately their data is still stored in the old DB format, and app pages. We figured the easier way to perform the upgrade would be to migrate their data to the new format, rather [...]

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I’ve forgotten just how exhilarating it is to blast around a track at night on a mountain bike, with tunes jamming away in your ears…

Phew… Now to get back into the rhythm for the triathlon.

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