Tech support guys are going to upgrade me to Office 2007. Good or bad? I don't know.

How the hell did Venice get "flooded" and why are the taxi boat services suspended? doh?

Oldest LOLcat found! circa 1905. http://tinyurl.com/5eexkz

I *want* to like TextMate but... I don't. Vim is forever!

World, get real: gather stats on how many people click your "skip intro" button. Now wake up and remove your stupid Flash intro altogether.

"Our staff of highly trained monkeys will cater to your every need". Yeah, sure.

Also it'd be a real timesaver if they didn't insist on braindead report formats where I have to inch every element into place... on Word!

I actually make progress on my programming project when I DON'T get interrupted every 5 minutes with administrative details. Managers suck.

@El_Chaco_Veloz Valeris! how true! They kicked her out of the fleet and she turned into such a slut!

Further evidence that those guys are completely out of touch with reality: they asked me for our servers' combined teraFLOPS capacity.

Using excel for gantt charts is like driving nails with a piece of wet bread. I wonder who thought of this standard for our project reports.

"sex and the city actress poses semi-naked". Why did I know, the moment I read the headline, that it was Kim Cattrall who did it?

How do they expect us to advance our projects if we're also asked to waste half the day generating project status reports?

The whole point of having such a big-ass screen is so I can have my browser NOT take up the entire screen!

As long as the dumbasses at CAC have anything to say about computing infrastructure in the university, we're pretty much doomed.

@hahlo as long as you're looking into VPS hosting, take a look at linode.com.

So much good, classic cinema, I don't know why we bother with all the new crap out of Hollywood!

twitting from the iphone without hahlo not so good akshually

I hate fridays.

This guy calls his secretary who then calls my office where the call gets put through to me. The guy has my cell phone number. What gives?

"devertebrated pumpkin". Type it, it's fun!

Argh! Which genius at Google came up with themes for Gmail? One of the cleanest webmail apps is on its way to becoming another Hotmail!

I hate software that doesn't create a new file when I specify a nonexistent filename.

DAMN! I want to use HAML in a project but I don't have any!

Ate too much bread yesterday, stomach is still processing it.

Freshly baked loaf of white bread expected to come out of the oven in 2:29 hours. Yum! sadly I'll still be at work when that happens.

Adding users. Would have taken less time doing it by hand but no, I had to program a script to do it for me. Time savings fail.

the big bang theory: didn't pass QC. Is now being zorched from our apple tv.

writing in all CAPS. I'm ashamed of myself; CAPS LOCK is evil.

OK, dumb users plus IIS = the perfect storm. It'll be a better world if (ever) IIS disappears.

@adrianpike Credit for the mssql / butt plug comparison goes to the folks at bash.org. Veritable repository of internet wisdom.

Test process akin to manually adjusting valve timing WHILE driving the car. They'd flip if they discovered Selenium for automated testing.

mssql is to linux what a butt plug is to the straight guy. Pointless, downright offensive and in a nightmare situation a pain in the ass.

applebee's: indulging in a bout of stuff-my-face-therapy. Dance show: you're doing it wrong!

Hello world! this is my 1000th twit! btw the VIP theatres at Perisur seem to have disappeared! what to do?

http://twitpic.com/lx1h - Three monoliths appeared at the university!

romulans could be defined as "evil vulcans"

Stupid procedures. Nobody follows them anyway.

whee, christmas decorations are coming up!

Aullido has stomach problems again. I get to pick up his droppings, yuk! hope the little guy gets better soon!

Planning FAIL: just found out we had two programming teams independently doing the same project.

Pear-flavored Clight tastes like crap.

They can afford to make mistakes because I have to fix them. I can't afford to make mistakes because, who's going to fix me?

Good old-fashioned bomberazo. Nothing quite like it to spice up an evening.

Today is independence day in Angola!

Credit card monthly payment was less than 5 figures! whee! I can't remember when was the last time this happened!

Just two words for today: FUCK. TELCEL.

Have to repeat a meeting we had 4 months ago. same topics, same presentation, same everything. Way to waste our time.

Problem when you reboot the 4-TB backup server after 3 months: if freaks out and spends an hour fsck'ing its hard drive.

Plug in a keyboard, log in and issue some commands, without a monitor connected. I don't know why people get so impressed by that.

third tire puncture in as many days. Suspecting foul play. Another reason to flee!

Fedora 8: what's the point of having an automatic update tool if it's going to complain about missing dependencies? find them for me!!!

Wouldn't you know it, I have a github account!

There's two kinds of real UNIX Admins: those who have yelled "Oh Shit!" and those who will.

I don't understand the world's fascination with CentOS. Red Hat and all its brethren are cursed.

I hate it when I get a server report 5 minutes before I'm scheduled to leave...

Telephones are supposed to make things faster! took me 5 minutes to get ahold of this guy!

Agile development good for a "culture that thrives on chaos". Then why is it so rare in Mexico?

everyday Windows message: "you have 2 new updates, 4 new emails, and 6 new viruses waiting. Click here to see them."

Sometimes Google creeps me out: gastric bypass surgery publicity on an agile development web site?

I hate it when Google auto searches for spanish content. So what if I'm in Mexico? Most content in spanish sucks.

Dumb: in addition to wasting 2 hours every tuesday on a meeting, I also waste 2 hours every monday to prepare for tuesday's meeting.

kplato: still too green for the job. Planner can't print to save its life but it's far more mature.

Boss takes issue when I say servicing user's requests is going to impact scheduled project delivery times. And *he* is the expert planner.

Virtualization is not *that* hard to understand... is it?

Had to babysit an event all morning. I'd be mad, it's a waste of my talent. They paid me just the same, though...

it feels so good when there's this big ass problem causing an angry mob and it's not my problem to solve ;) watching the mob right now :)

rebooting a nagual server. Hope I don't kill the poor bastard.

trying to wrap my head around Xen's networking. Will I succeed? or will I fail like I did with LDAP, which sent me running in horror?

Gnome planner has me seriously impressed. I used to like TaskJuggler...

Meetings: great way to create a huge backlog of work from all the time you wasted NOT working while at the meeting.

Time for our weekly Meeting from Hell.

Rails 2.2 to have i18n framework! rejoice! no more monkeypatching classes to get localized strings! (hopefully)

Finally taking measures to have notification when I need to upgrade servers.

sometimes fate's message is simply "sucks to be you" :/

rejoice, daylight savings time is over!!

VisualBasic: unable to do a simple substring match comparison. What a joke!

VisualStudio's success stems from the fact that it's a great tool for shotgun debugging. Lol!

Wordpress upgrade 2.6.2 -> 2.6.3. Probably the easiest I've ever done.

Doh, I'm using gmail tags incorrectly, as if they were folders. Key fact: you can have more than one tag on each item.

usual shitload-of-work friday here!

Winnipeg, deadliest city in Canada, has 1/2 the murder rate of Mexico City.

24-gb apache error log. Beautiful.

BTW, I don't do flowcharts.

Actually, the *idea* behind LiveMeeting is incredibly cool. The implementation sucks, though. Typical MSFT.

Microsoft: how gallant of you to call your turdish project bundles "solutions". As if. BTW, LiveMeeting sucks.

It looked so far away but I'm now only 52 twits away from the 1,000 mark!

I wonder who put those idiots in Monterrey in control of Mexico's NIC.

Wohoo, found a "junk" envelope in my files. Organizing it now...

OK, teachers are bringing students for a guided tour of our data center. Guess who's the guide!

We should make a list of names that are OBVIOUSLY due to typos. Today's nominee: Woswald.

should not put "shit" as placeholder on code I write.

"windows high performance computing". Microsoft, when will the oxymorons stop?

Gnome's Planner has matured quite a bit in 2 years! impressed the hell out of me.

What's the point of having a planning department if all they do is complain about how WE don't plan? it's their job, not ours!

Guerrilla-charging my iphone at the office.

@El_Chaco_Veloz hmm por eso lo cambiaron por el enterprise? el kelvin se iba para abajo :)

@El_Chaco_Veloz el otro nacelle está por abajo, fijate bien :P

Bela the dalmatian: at the vet for a day-long medical checkup. Man is she gonna be pissed when we pick her up later today!

... he said an instant before finding a ONE-person group. Gotta be kidding me. Argh.

I hate 2-person groups!!!!!!

another 3 moodle installations!

I don't like Microsoft LiveMeeting.

Some schmuck got dragged into the attorney's office because he got caught inside the ladies' room.

@silicongirl thanks :)

Have to give a statement at the school attorney's office. Man, what a lousy day.

I'm too good for my own good some times!

Good: Robert J. Sawyer's Flashforward will be a tv series. Bad: helmed by Brannon Braga, responsible for running Star Trek into the ground.

DAMN! hell week is coming again in.... 6 months, luckily!

sitting on my ass watching tv all day!

Hell week is over!

Hidden treasures! found a pineapple Jarrito hidden in my bookshelf! drinking it now.

Rails Rumble is coming! can't believe it's already been a year!

The worldtanic sinks; you're on top, you might make it alive. You're 3rd class down below (Mexico), your outlook is not so good.

I hate fridays!

@El_Chaco_Veloz just in charge of computer-graded exams. Extraordinarios! 70% fail rate.

We caught someone cheating on an exam. We're going to nullify his score, poor schmuck won't find out until official results come out.

I hate WIndows!

Hell Week: Finance exams are today, don't be late for those!

some dope ripped our register sheets and threw them into the trash

Hell Week: full house at 11 AM! will be fun.

Wow, I just realized I have almost 10 years' experience with PHP.

http://twitpic.com/evqq - A praying mantis we found on a door frame

OMG Broderbund's The Print Shop still exists! http://tinyurl.com/5v3xm9

Coming to Transylvania on a Sunday afternoon - bad idea!

just delivered the sneaky bio samples we were keeping in the fridge, will get results next week

watching some parkour lamers epic-failing

I'm so horrified by ASP and .NET that I'm learning Python, a language I don't like. Every language I know is a chance to stay away from .NET

Next week: HELL WEEK !!!

As usual. Windows fumbles and drops the ball. Linux picks it up and runs to touchdown. Linux saves the day *yet* again.

I actually prefer to step, barefoot, on a mushy dog turd, than program with Microsoft tools and languages.

ASP is the spawn of hell, I'll be glad if I never have to see anything like this again.

messed up, have to repeat 5 processes. About 1/2 hour wasted.

Microsoft development tools are a cursed mess. I can't make heads or tails of this!

Another microsoftesque oxymoron: calling this tangled monstrosity of a mess a "solution file".

Windows, are you kidding me? 16 minutes to decompress a 6-mb file???

Microsoft: after a 1.3 GB download for the .Net SDK, would it be too much to ask to include the actual frigging runtime with the thing?

WTF 1.3 GB download for .Net development framework?????

A wintery chill in this morning's air means our two weeks of yearly "really cold weather" are fast approaching. I hate the weather here!

Hey, if you work at an embassy you get the holidays for both countries! whee!

Mexico City finished 211th on the 2007 quality of living survey. Zurich = #1.

Money-wise, my Macbook paid for itself after this gig ;) Of course the client hasn't actually *paid* yet but.. bah.

PLEASE, when you send e-mail, don't put a subject of "REQUEST". You might as well put nothing. LOL.

Merlin : like 90210, only the Walsh twins are replaced by Merlin and Arthur. BLEH!!!!

Word: I want to create a TOC. I type "table of contents" in help box. Why isn't the first answer "how to create a TOC"? DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!

Why the hell does Word move toolbar buttons around? I guess if I had 2007 I wouldn't even have to worry about that, damn ribbon and all.

I'm stunned by just how fragile the Microsoft web server stack is. How people run this crap in production is beyond me.

Sadly, Excel is still much better than OpenOffice for analyzing large reams of data. Openoffice is so sluggish with large sets.

Organizing terminals by font color! why didn't I think of that before? great when you have sessions to 5 servers open. No messups!

Grrr, I always step on dog shit when walking my dogs. Dog owners everywhere: PLEASE PICK IT UP!

@El_Chaco_Veloz Shaun of the Dead - nada de refresco, con las risas se les puede salir por la nariz ;)

I wonder who thought of an airplane with a megaphone blaring nonsense was a good way to promote your business. Can't even understand them.

Cool trail ride on the mountain bike and wordpress theme widgetization!

Cool: HPricot reduced a laborious, hair-ripping problem to about 10 lines of Ruby code.

I hate fridays: half a day of nothing followed by half a day of I can't cope with all this. Hpricot is a nice thing I got out of this day.

Someone just mistook the star of david for a pentacle! lol

"may the force blow your mind" doesn't sound half as good as they think it does.

Requiem for a cat :( farewell chonita.

What a dork: http//: wasn't going to get me anywhere!

Vague recollections of having tried TextMate and NOT having liked it. Bleh. Vim is forever.

EEK! Microsoft appropiated the "you had me at EHLO" phrase? top 3 results on google point to ms exchange pages!

"You program in Java but are still using a relational database" - LOL, and they paint Java as the "race car" while the DB is a tractor. sure

Gotta love it when an email begins with "YOU ARE ALL WRONG". Best thing is, they indeed were all wrong. I didn't write it, though.

hmm, nested exceptions. Are they supposed to be this ugly?

I'm wary of things that don't work and then suddenly with no apparent change start working magically. It happens mostly on Windows.

Just when I thought Microsoft couldn't produce anything crappier, along comes MSDE to prove me wrong.

We just discovered layer 9 errors - caused by the teacher.

A bus ran over an ELEPHANT on a Mexican highway. Sadly the elephant died :(

a bureaucrat saying "if you brought all your documents there won't be a problem". Oxymoronic yet reassuring!

I'm already living in October. Not good when giving time estimates for projects.

um. Putting a favicon.ico on every website's root directory would reduce the number of 404's by about half. But do we want to do that?

So they actually want money for a PHP-Nuke download. I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.

Hoping Apple gets its act together and releases the update/IM API and servers for the iPhone. Android has IM, why can't Apple do it?

Whatever. I don't want to work today. Why are they asking me about accounting software? like asking a rocket scientist about a turd.

whee, corn dog night!!!

Customers: if you don't like my time estimates, why don't you tell me how long I have, and I'll tell you if I can do it in that time? doh.

Just found a "GOTO" statement on an ASP.net program! Trashing the entire solution and starting from scratch is looking better every moment.

Oh and I thought Java/JSP was horrible and byzantine... move over, for ASP.net *is* the spawn of the devil and all that is unholy!

@El_Chaco_Veloz descubriendo los "minutos microsoft"? ;)

"Choose your next witticism carefully Mr. Bond; it may be your last"

Best Windows Vista comment ever: "I've heard that Windows Vista gives you scabies."

18,000 hits an hour. Should I be concerned? it's a Windows server... I guess I should be.

AIG bailout: the United States is now the largest sponsor of Manchester United!

whoa! openbravo has virtual appliances! just made my life a lot easier

Avast! those scurvy dogs and wenches haven't signed the official letters we sent them! to the plank with them! Arrr!

@silicongirl no celeb yet, still 151 twits to go :( thanks ;)

I'm closing in on my 1000th twitter update!

hey, twitter just got mangled!

pondering canine logistics!

Yeah: believe it or not, sometimes you can find out how things work by READING THE MANUALS

La frase de hoy: "¡está de superpelos!"

a 600-strong mob just vandalized teachers' and students' cars here at the university.

¿Qué tan menso hay que ser para abrir un correo de "gusanito.com"?

ok, the iphone is alive. I can't use the genius yet!

updating my iphone.... i think I burned it!!

Ike causing oil and gas prices to rise again. Hey, now you know how we Mexicans feel with our bi-weekly gas price increase!!

"Repeat alert up to two additional times for text messages". This alone is worth the 2.1 iPhone upgrade. Contacts not freezing is also good.

Hey! Mexico is so independent, that our independence day celebration spans two days! (we so lazy)

BTW, Fringe? rocks on the 83-incher. Just wish it had 5.1 audio...

"wireless languages". WTF buzzword-spewing teacher?

KUDOS to the dork who sent me duplicate questions. Way to go! just wasted 30 minutes fixing the mess.

Damn authoring manager crashed on me!

How can Google display real-time stock quotes, when everybody else delays them 15-20 minutes?

Happy Linode.com customer since sep, 2005. Worth every penny we've ever paid them.

"I get a check on friday but it's already spent". Actually, a) I get a *bank transfer* today and b) spent already, as well as the next one.

I'm not one to hold a grudge; I prefer to get revenge early on and then forget the whole thing ;)

WTF iTunes Genius NOT working for international users without iTunes Music Store account??? ah crap.

@El_Chaco_Veloz el ipodTouch original anunciado 5/sep/2007; 32gb anunciado feb/08. Cuanto vas que en feb/09 sale el de 64 GB ;)

Back in '93 someone typo'd "multimedia" and named the class "macromedia". Took 13 years and new study plan to fix it; is now "multimedia" :)

WHAT? APPLE? no push notification service for iphone apps? damn SMS are driving me into poorness!

cochineal spotted inside the building!!!!

clock is ticking, hell week is one month away!

"better languages" are easier to use which allows for less experienced coders to perform the tasks.

Damn you Google, for giving me a reason to use Windows! where the hell is Chrome for the Mac or Linux???

WOW, Wordpress's auto-update feature just impressed the hell out of me.

Upgrading to wordpress 2.6.1.

deadly everyday object #3: piece of lettuce jammed up my right nostril!

fi-fscking-nally got lid-closing suspend-to-ram working under debian with kde. powersaved, kpowersave, acpid, acpi-support and some magic.

Nearly choked to death with a peanut fragment. Beware, it's national "kill yourself with an everyday inocuous object" day!

just stabbed myself with a deodorant bar!

Installation wizards are supposed to be so easy, so why do I keep having to write 10-page manuals for them? "click next"... bah.

"Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB." Suddenly those 512-mb netbooks don't look as attractive.

Real men twit using curl! http://apiwiki.twitter.com

I'm starting to naturally call directories "folders"! someone please get me away from all these windows users!

@El_Chaco_Veloz Achis, ¿quién defiende a vista? btw, instala virtualbox y pon vista virtualizado dará menos lata jaj

The losers at CAC want us to comply with "3 major browsers". Check: FF, IE, Safari, Konq. Still to go: Opera, Chrome. No Lynx support, sorry

"Enemies of Carlotta" - a mailing list manager. Runner-up for coolest project name ever.

Until your machine sports four or eight discrete processing cores, IE8 will remain 'porcine'. How's that for bloatware ;)

OMFG, I'm sitting on an 82-MBit pipe!!! WHEEE!

ARGH, html BLINK tag alert!!!

OK, LDAP deadline: tomorrow, 2 PM

@silicongirl no way josé :P

summer vacation on SPECTRE island, yay!

i'm wearing a Mohawk!!

Every time I try to understand LDAP I end up running away in fear. It's too horrible for me.

Setting an interface's IP address on Windows Vista is so absurdly complicated; nothing like the simplicity of ifconfig and route add.

just blew off a lame teacher who wanted to use MS SQL Server. Might as well teach his students to poke their eyes with red-hot forks.

I hate Fridays so much, I consider the phrase "Good Friday" an oxymoron ;(

sqlite is so cool!

I hate fridays :-/

I has cheezburger 4 lunchz

the Acer Aspire One is SO CUTE!!

A server hiccuped, by the time the user reported it, monit had already fixed the problem. Neat!

IE8 beta vs. Firefox 3? So the second browser wars are upon us. Cool!

Mass transit is so cool when it's done right. Sadly that's not the case here...

I need new socks.

is "preventative" even a word?

@silicongirl btw Idiocracy quote win!

Xming rocks; I waited years for a decent, free-software X server for Windows. Actually I didn't, I jumped straight into Linux!

I freaking hate Java and all its related bastard technologies and crap. I'm looking at you, JBoss and Tomcat. WORA, my ass.

Shocking discovery: walking is easier if your shoes are properly laced.

@silicongirl I did warn you it was *that* bad ;)

Transferred a server's "memories" to a new "body", a virtual machine. Transfer of consciousness?

A nasty trip on the deathbus really puts the city's transportation dilemma into perspective.. at least I made it alive!

OK, this server is more like it: 5 500-gb disks on a raid-5 array! and Dell's PERC controller seems nicer than HP's smartarray.

uh-oh. Our insurance company offers, as part of our benefits, "driver's accidental death". Sorry but, could you strike out that clause?

I freaking hate all these Fedora installations where someone just up and chose "install everything". Makes for a mess of a system.

oh, spiffy new version of SSH does "randomart"!

Star trek themed lolcat: http://tinyurl.com/62gm6q

I'm sad the Olympics are over, but I'm glad I can say goodbye to mexican TV's horrendous coverage of the games. I'm getting cable next time.

Updating a system I wrote about 4 years ago. My PHP is quite rusty.

debugging a weirdly-behaving rails app.

Twitter poll: which one has more keys, your office/work keychain or your home keychain?

Munching on some saltless assorted nuts. Didn't know they tasted so good without salt! It sure ruins their natural taste...

@El_Chaco_Veloz odio ser yo quien te diga pero... Una guerra de película it is ;)

I foresee hecticness until tomorrow, luckily this little restaurant we're at is pretty quiet. An hour to relax and then it's back to hectic!

Dare I say it, I liked hahlo better than twittelator or twitterfon. Have yet to try twitterrific on the iphone.

@silicongirl http://hahlo.com try it, your mobile twitting will never be the same

grand opening in about 2 hours. Never mind the building has been operational for 2 weeks now.

Palms were ok but they started going the WinMo road and went all to hell. Glad I jumped ship, the new Treo Pro just proves me right. Yuk!

Sunday's mantra was "tulibu dibu douchoo".

I feel like some yummy chocolate-covered raisins. Unfortunately I ran out of them about 2 weeks ago!

World's fastest office chair! http://tinyurl.com/6grcru

ho-hum. Preparing result lists for yesterday's test and scheduling tests for next week. Sounds like a full-time job to me...

Twitter SMSing never worked for me anyway, so I don't care ;)

Long runs twit-kill me; yesterday's took me until today to recover.

I applaud the humility and sincerity of Madaí Pérez, mexican, finished 19th on olympic marathon. Didn't win a medal, sure won my respect.

As always, the olympic marathon is a great drama; Lesotho's runner just cramped, is limping, hopefully won't have to drop out.

oops, deena kastor out due to injury at approximately kilometer 5!!

Olympic women's marathon about to start! I foresee a couple of hours glued to tv

Olympics: being a favorite for the bronze medal, is it good or bad?

14 Day Activity - 280 SPAM, 30 Good. Bah, I remember when I got more legitimate mail than spam.

Bound by the shackles of work :( LOL

So if my Dom0 is amd64, I can't run a 32-bit 686 DomU. Next option: install 64-bit ubuntu.

installing an old-ass kernel to see if I can get Zimbra to work. What, no amd64 version? bleh!

"The dodo rampant appears on the coat of arms of Mauritius". Sorry but a "dodo rampant" hardly sounds impressive.

@El_Chaco_Veloz van dos días seguidos que me encuentro a Carlos Chávez (cursor) caminando por la calle :-O sigue igualito!

There's no picture worse than the one you never took. So go wild with your digital camera!

Linux server backed up on Windows machine, of course it screwed up all permissions which I'm now having to fix manually.

If we're in the basement and a Ceiling Cat shows up, is it a purgatory cat? and would that be a plenum cat? pondering..

LOLCODE: lolcats' programming language. If you ever learn ONE esoteric, useless language, this should be it. ROFLing!

Turns out, I'm not such a bad program architect OR perl programmer.. hmm. I still prefer Ruby or PHP.

For a brief, horrible moment I thought I'd deleted ALL of my organization's email. Phew!

The idiots at cinépolis charged me 2 days ago for tickets I purchased in *june*. Way to go. They're big Windows users, must be why.

Stuck in traffic, so I'm texting, quite dangerous!

dovecot is so much easier to install than courier. Bleh, I'm to lazy to dovecot-ize most of my mail servers.

over the course of 3 weeks, I've realised this: the phrase "easy run" is an oxymoron !!

Took me until today from recover from saturday's long run, but here I am!

Microsoft VP says Wii has "gimmicks" instead of "solid gameplay". Sour grapes over the Wii outselling Xbox. http://tinyurl.com/6kvgsy

Great, we're all upgraded to Wordpress 2.6. Was a bit messier than expected; I shouldn't be so long between upgrades.

Kudos to the EIGHT dumbasses who actually BOUGHT "I am rich", the US $999.99 app for the iphone. Work of art, yeah, sure.

Microsoft hires new ad agency to promote Vista: Maybe they figure even a polished turd looks better with a cherry on top? seen on slashdot

Bill Gates article on Time. Who is he to talk about creative capitalism? MSFT is one of the most old-school capitalist companies around.

My new olympic-themed ringtone combines nostalgia with geekiness. And no, it's not an official fanfare from previous olympics!

Olympics schedule is murder for us; will have to set up daily recording of live transmissions. At least we can watch nightly highlights.

my cube still stinks up when it rains outside, and right now it's pouring!

http://twitpic.com/6wnu - Cleaning guys are on strike and I'm not allowed to empty my own trash can...

brief panic due to misplaced wallet. Turned up under the driver's seat. Good, I won't be cancelling my credit card today.

Haha, just caught Nokia recycling model numbers! older: http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4222014 and newer: http://europe.nokia.com/A41063183

OK, TouchTerm: SSH for the iPhone. yay!

SMART is a piece of crap; the disk has one unreadable sector but a health check shows it as OK. Bleh At least smartd emailed me a report.

upgrading our mail server antivirus (ClamAV). Solaris, so integration is not as good. Hope I don't bring the mail service down as usual!

hey, there's a cricket in my office!

End of an era: our SGI O2 is now offline, replaced by a virtual machine under Linux. My work here is done, heading home.

I am NOT amused by SSH bruteforcers. Hopefully they'll feel the same about new measures I'm putting up to deal with them >:)

LOL, users circumvented the firewall ban on IMing by using web-based clients. LOL.

while editing shorewall's "rules" file I had to type "vim rules". Couldn't agree more.

Replacing the Linux box with a sonicwall just because you don't understand it is NOT a good reason. They could always have me admin the box.

Dear lord. Mail clients DO NOT HAVE a DNS configuration setting. Don't they teach this stuff anymore? OTOH, I had to learn it on my own...

9 puppies rescued from certain death. News made my day, thanks darling! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7544946.stm

iphonefan.com just discovered iPhone has VISUAL VOICE MAIL. What was everyone using the phone for, then? it's one of its killer features!

No, bringing in a second power line won't work unless they also get a second 15kVA UPS. I hate it when people in charge have no clue.

LOL, I just got rickroll'd

Olympics start in 2 days, and one of Mexico's 2 broadcaster's site is all abuzz... with news of the national soccer team's new trainer. Bah.

So one more reason to buy legitimate movies is gone: all my DVDs are slowly dying; akin to Laserdisc's "rot".

Think your PlayStation3 is powerful? Windows Vista takes 25 minutes to boot on a PS3. How's that for bloatware?

- "what'd she do to you" - "nothing, she just... exists" LOL!

Software companies: running your app read-only from a shared folder does NOT make it client-server.

Laugh as you will, but here at our computing center we´ve been on a "hellness" program for the last 2 months. See the latest dilbert.com.

my movie finished encoding, it´s so cute at 1.2 GB!

If the firewall won't let you unblock access, replace the firewall. If the guy in charge has no clue how to open access, replace the guy!

did the tech support guys just misplace passwords for 70 new computers?

Also, does investing in a company generate value per se? or is it all fiction? I think it's all a scam but what do I know.

Cuz yeah, Chavez figured out that what's good for private enterprise is not always best for the common citizen.

So financial types are all outraged because Chavez is scaring off investors from Venezuela. Maybe because he's trying to benefit his people?

neat trick! Turn your iPhone upside down while viewing a photo ;)

processing really big movie to fit it on an iPhone. The end result will be tiny, almost cute at 480x264. Hope I got the aspect ratio right.

Scheduling backup for the new server! backuppc rocks. Except for backing up Windows boxen, then it sucks. A bit.

Why on earth does searching for "apeshit" on Wikipedia redirect to "anger"?

Setting up the replacement for the old O2 workstation/server; I'm essentially setting up its last will and testament !

should have taken darling's advice and stayed home; first two people I had to face out in the street were idiots!

just ordered a huge pizza and calzones. Calzón is Spanish for "underpants", languages can be weird!

Just bathed the dogs for the first time in 2 months; shouldn't put it off for so long!

dogs, reproductive excellence = tried to screw anything that moved!

http://twitpic.com/6a4y - We don't need no education!

The killer application IS making calls; calling from the iPhone is so fin I might use up all my minutes!

Best finance-related movies/series: WALL STREET, Other People's Money, The Associate, The $treet, Bull... Barbarians at the gate?

Bela the dalmatian is mad at me for not letting her choke herself to death with a razor-sharp chicken bone!

Dogs and I: got hit by an automatic door, almost run over 4 times, even once while on the sidewalk. Fridays bring out the worst in people.

I just became official Database administrator. Officially anyway; I've been the defacto DBA for ages now.

Whoa, my kde desktop is gone!

Rachmaninoff has been zorched from my music collection.

A typo gave me the name for my upcoming (yeah sure) Unix variant: ÑOMIX

Losing one customer is bad when you only have five of them!

so the O2 WORKSTATION that's been (AB)used as a SERVER for 10 years is finally kicking it. Memory fault. I'm surprised it lasted so long.

I don't want to work anymore! that 3-week vacation was way too short!

The "put down the fork" diet is really simple: eat whatever you want. Just don't eat so damn much of it!

switching between spanish and english keyboards gives me mental cramps! ñeñeñá:_:;:;

I freaking hate SSH bruteforcers!

people who can't speak softly but have to SCREAM all the time should be locked in soundproof cubes for the duration of the workday.

Cuil sucks, and it sucks hard. They may have 3 times as many pages as Google, but they sure are useless with their sucky service.

I was late to work and I still was the first one in! lazy bums!

6 technologies that don't know they're dead. It's hilarious! http://tinyurl.com/66w5l4

Invisible shield is cool, but so freaking hard to apply. Got some bubbles on my iPhone :(

despite the name, failblog.com never fails to bring a tear to my eye, I laugh so hard with that site.

Today, sysadmin appreciation day, is my last day of vacation. Thanks to all who have shown their appreciation! (nobody so far LOL)

Just splurged on a new cordless hammer-drill. I don't think the house can take many more holes without falling apart though...

After seeing the dark knight, we found this guy strolling around walmart with a knife. Creeped us out!

I'm so out of shape that even a 4k run tired me out; had to take 2-hour nap to compensate.

Home depot is so fun! We always spend a fortune when we go

Sysadmin appreciation day is coming! Show your love this Friday the 25th

mobile twitter is not bad, will do until I manage to get twittelator

Remember the milk: BOO! Why do you want to charge me for mobile access only if I have an iphone? GO TO HELL!

The dark knight opens this friday in mexico, is already sold out through the weekend! Buying tickets for next monday, sigh...

If the dog stays the same, it means he's not getting better :P

Really hairy dog + diarrhea = not good. Poor thing was so embarrassed!

Freaking iphone app store! I don't want to buy anything, just want free apps, so lay off my credit card! And yeah, my iphone got replaced ;)

My new iphone died in its sleep!

Iphone: $4700 plus 2-year plan; waiting 3 days for credit check: hell on earth; darling's smile when she saw her new iphone: priceless ;)

Only connoiseurs would wear a fake burberry instead of the more common fake vuitton!

Hellboy today, hancock tomorrow, and all set for dark knight next friday!

So our telco is giving iphones by appointment only, and yet it's madness!

Damn, the conditions Mexico's Telcel has for giving me an iPhone are ridiculous, which is why I'm mad, because I'm still going to get one!

I'm amused by spam that begins with "THIS IS NOT SPAM"

OK, so i write an update and it appears twice; I delete an instance and they're both gone. twitter? hellooo?

Unlike some FANCY breakfasters I know, my breakfast is a burger with fries

Our dogs love carrots! How about yours?

On vacation, and im glad because I have so much to do! Lol

The world would be a much nastier place without roquefort cheese!!

Android uses Java? No thanks, I suffered enough with Java on the blackberry. I´ll stick to Objective C, thankyouverymuch.

Just performed minor surgery on a blackberry's trackball! That thing is really complicated!

@silicongirl Aspera is a software-only solution, not an end-to-end one like smartjog. Won´t help without a fat-ass data pipe :)

Wouldn't you know it, this office has a window!

The bathrooms are always closed for cleaning, so why are they so gross when they're open?

Munich: is it good? I don't know, I slept through it!

OK, so why isn't everyone bashing the openmoko for not having 3G, like it happened to the iPhone a year ago?

It's actually cheating: I'm fixing the test so the model passes it, not the other way around.

Fixing a bunch of unit tests that were failing.

you can EVEN send a message to more than one person! OOOOH!!

Why is the bathroom always locked? I might take a dump on the hallway to make my point; is what Happy Gilmore would do.

Pondering the role a sociopath like me actually plays on a social website like twitter

Happy birthday silicongirl!

OKAMI! It was SO hard to find but well worth it; the game is beautiful and the play mechanics are awesome. If only i was better at drawing!

At the mall, it's so crowded! And not like they're giving anything away

FINALLY got submodules to work. Good thing too, because one of my projects was borked without them.

I'm un-surprised by git's submodule functionality.

I'm surprised by github's ease of use. It's just da thing for publishing projects via git.

hopefully my plugin has adequate test coverage now

scheduling assessments is boring grunt work. Too bad no grunt is smart enough to to it.

Man, autotest sure takes the chore out of Test-driven development.

'Rails improperly pluralizes the word "penis".' An "acts_as_penis" plugin was even proposed. ROFL. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919

at long freaking last, I managed to implement a standalone database server.

database server provisioning: 4 minutes.

Geek meet was good but it's better to be home with my darling

thanks for putting up with me ;)

The world's 25th fastest computer runs Windows; the world has become a nastier place :(