Nerd Humour Alert
I try to keep the hardcore nerd content off the radar here, since it probably only makes sense to two other people I know who might even casually glance at this blog. Anyway, I will make an exception today just for fun. In my current contract I'm back to full on mail server nerd and was doing some documentation this morning when I came across this antivirus scanner option:
Illegal MIME header action
Cue immature nerdly snickering and snorting, while pushing up my horn-rimmed glasses. Fnar fnar fnar.
Caffeine + sleep deprivation + early morning = giddy geek
I know I'm a geek, it pays the bills ok?
MacBook Pro FTW
Let me just say that I forgot my power adapter this morning when I left for a whole day of work offsite. Nikki has her brand-new work-issued HP EliteBook laptop, I have my year-old used MacBook Pro. Her battery was dead before lunch, and mine is still going (albeit down to the dregs now) at 4pm. I didn't have it on all day, and it wasn't all that graphic intensive, but I was using lots of WiFi all day. I only just turned down the brightness so I could get this blog post out.
That is some nice battery life....
Theme Change Friday
Ok, so I'm procrastinating from doing any work because I am a jerk like that. So, how about a new theme for the blog? Sure why not? Don't tell Nikki that I haven't billed anybody this afternoon yet.
I got bored of the last theme, which while it was clean, started to feel rather bland. This is a bit better, I think. There is no point for this post, except just for my own purposes. Here's to procrastination!
Cheers.
Swing Child o’ Mine
Here's a freaking brilliant idea: write some code to make any song a swing-tempo number. This sounds ridiculous, but really you have to give it a try:
Sweet Child O' Mine (Swing Version) by plamere
Now that is a catchy friggin' tune at the best of times, but make it a swing tune, and it's classier somehow.
There are a whole bunch more here.
Another one of my favourites:
Enter Sandman- the Swing Version by plamere
A Day in the Life….
...of a nerd.
This is what I have been elbow deep in the last two days.
Lovely, isn't it?
** Update:
As Rob mentioned below, this isn't exactly the recommended way to route cables, let alone mixing cable types (ha!) which I suppose in a real data centre is a large no-no. But this is a government data centre, and the prevailing theme here is to do the least amount of work possible, so this is what happens after 10 years or so. You are free to formulate your own metaphor from this picture, having it symbolize the red tape and bureaucracy most of us identify with when we think "government".
Ali sent along a sample of what happens in her tech writer world.
She helpfully mentions:
Notice how eight cables per side rail are invisible behind 1/8 of an inch of rack flange. Also observe the tidy, physics-defying 90-degree cable bends which are helpful in these situations.
I will have to amend our real life data centre to reflect the manufacturer's view of these sorts of things ASAP. Most notably absent in Ali's picture is the patina of grime and dust that dulls every surface in our location, befouling the fingers of anyone foolish enough to try to impose order in the chaos. Trust me, I know all about the grime.
Archivery
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- I just ousted @scootermcgee as the mayor of Subway on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9rMJHS
- â@pattonoswalt: Bustles and plums! #VictorianEraOrgasmYellsâ. Good lord, just followed Patton and this is like tweet #5. Sweet.
- My new blog post: "Nerd Humour Alert" http://nn.nf/1cvco
- My new blog post: "Working From Home" http://nn.nf/1cuql