I try not to think too much about the IRS, and hope that they do likewise in return. But there is no avoiding the subject.
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Three day weekend
Unlike a lot of people, I actually worked on Friday. The office was very quiet. Then I took three days off.
Microsoft’s Contribution to the Olympics
Software upgrades
Later Saturday
Later in the afternoon I did some shopping while mia_mcdavid took a nap. I then made one of the changes to the post drill that I had thought of last night. Then a shower, and off to work. Fortunately, that just meant a trip to the basement, where, with a cable modem and VPN, it is almost like going downtown.
I wants it, my Precious
Small, light, cheap, solid state storage (no moving parts), a keyboard, and Linux: The Asus Eee PC 900.
Also available with Windows XP, but why?
Another lap in the race to the bottom. Faster! Faster!
An evening in a DBA’s life
I got a call a little before 8 last night from the Windows OS staff at my job. A routine patching process (Microsoft systems need so much patching you might as well make a routine of it) had failed. They could not get the database system to start up. Under the gun
“Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?”
This is funny:
Stay at Home Servers. See Microsoft’s Brainwashing Children’s Book for a copy that loads much faster.
From unknownpoet78 via Rillaspins