October 2008
OctoberOct 27 Monday 08
Outage
I called in sick to work on Friday, but even so I had work to do, so I logged in from home to get it done. In the course of the work I was doing, I managed to accidentally corrupt a production database during business hours. A production outage of perhaps 30 minutes was …
OctoberOct 18 Saturday 08
John McCain
Hey folks. Sorry I haven't talked to you in a while. I've been busy with something or other, I'm sure. I got an idea while I was out last night, inspired by the random hilarity of Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, and brainstormed for some content with some friends over …
OctoberOct 8 Wednesday 08
Make me a Logo
I'm pretty much inept at visual creativity. I can't operate photoshop or photoshop-like applications to save my life, so I hope it never comes to that. I can clumsily superimpose images on top of other images for goofy-looking novelty purposes, but that's about the …
OctoberOct 1 Wednesday 08
Oktoberfest and Dancing
I met Geoff in front of his place on Friday afternoon, and we walked down to roughly somewhere along Main to wait for a bus. Just as we despaired a bus bore down on us and happily stopped between stops to pick us up. We got off on Grand, south of where the city had …