Who hires Indian call centers for tech staffing/recruiting? What kind of talent will that attract? What does it say about your company?
Guilty as charged! Standing in line for coffee, co-worker accused me of still being asleep “because I was not talking”.
KristiBelcamino Note to self: Do not engage the crazies. This is not my circus. These are not my clowns.
School is out for a 4th day… you’d think we had a blizzard. It was barely enough to make a snowman.
Email from our IT department:
Hi Robert, Service Request # 497386-490800471: “my name is ALAN, not ROBERT” has been created for you.
Nice… someone converted XKCD 1110 “Click and Drag” into an iPad app. https://t.co/qb2yvYUtXh
@emmarockin zzz, um, what? did you say something?
@LeafStorm I can work remotely… but my tools and processes usually require me to play the cube-hop game. Sigh.
I’m fed up with the tricks and hacks I have to do on my Mac to get into $WORK, so I am creating a “WFH” virtual machine to contain it all.
.@wralweather iPhone app says 20-40% chance of snow starting 2pm Tue. Web site says 90% starting 10am. (Schools must be watching web site!)
My bank is offering me a free soccer ball if I send $400 or more “back home” to Latin America, India, Vietnam or China. #marketing #fail
Finally… I have created multi-domain SSL certificates, signed by my own Certificate Authority. (The magic is in the openssl.cnf files.)
“A printable PDF version of this page is available here” >> Same content, some guy just opened a browser and printed to PDF. #facepalm
@userview You have been well trained!
RT @koke: This Is Why You Shouldn’t Interrupt a Programmer http://t.co/y8PUme58xO
An Indian call center operator with a New Jersey phone number just cold-called me about a job in Connecticut. #1stImpressions
I had a 4-day work week… nice!
Kids had a 2-day school week… NICE!
Learning how to use tabs in vim (hat tip to @nelstrom).
Just received a plain text email that starts “Updates in ORANGE:”.
21°F… lovely weather for a fire drill.
RT @vbandi: “How much would it cost me to make an app with you?”
“The same as a car.”
“What kind of car?”
“Exactly!”
@nivex I bought an 800XL in college, about 5 years after they came out, dirt cheap. Played games and wrote programs in BASIC and “Action!”.
Listening to Str8 Busted podcast from @coldbustedbeats. Sets a nice funky mood in my nerd cave.
Awesome… I just found my favorite video game of all time - BallBlazer! pic.twitter.com/IPRPeQmg7X
Destroying old CDs. I don’t think I’ll need these 10-15 year old PC backups.
D2 has a hole in her black dance leotard. I suggested she wear it anyway, and I will paint her skin black with a Sharpie so it won’t show.
Stupid hotel HVAC kept turning on LOUD for 30 sec every few minutes. Downloaded owner’s manual and turned that “feature” off. #hack
“Toas boat” at Coyote Kitchen in Boone NC - nom nom! pic.twitter.com/36SXMzwI01
Every landing is a cross-wind landing. It’s just a matter of degree.
Expletive!
I’m so proud. D1 is the supreme mugwump of spellers in her school. (And in the process, we learned we’re using that word incorrectly).
Promo code for my latest iPhone app, which is just a 24-hour analog clock: HPAK7L6NN6AN
Linux sysadmin tip: Keep your /etc directory under version control. “etckeeper” package makes it easy to track all changes using git.
@MandalaPubs Share with your followers: free iPhone app for learning and practicing the “16 Guidelines for Life” - sentosa.us/apps/wishes/
RT @BigZaphod: Maybe the App Store provisioning/certificate nonesense would make more sense if I had a mental model other than “fuck this s…
@nivex Ironically, boss referred to this as a “Sherlock” task.
@nivex Receiving my S.H.I.T. presently… looks like there will be a lot of it over several weeks.
Happy Monday. Boss just assigned me a Special Highly Important Task.
@InstapaperHelp Hmm, I see the same thing on github. Must be a FontAwesome thing. Still digging, this stuff is pretty cool.
@InstapaperHelp Wondering why IP’s icons don’t render right on FFox/Linux. Example: .icon-lock = , others are diamonds. Thx 4 CSS lesson :)
Personal best WWF score = 536!
Playing one of my best Scrabble games ever… my aunt would be justified if she didn’t want to speak to me any more.
You know, pecans look like little brains. Eating them makes me feel like some huge monster.
Squall line passed over Cary in ~2 minutes. Various iPhone apps have been fighting each other to alert me. Red Cross app is most dramatic. âš
Discovered 99PI podcast (with @romanmars) in August. Since then, listened to all 98 episodes. Almost sad to be caught up today.
Tornado watch issued for Greensboro area. Really?
I always have to double-take when I use a play/pause button, because it emphasises what the music is NOT doing right now.
NC minivan [SWW-4553] is a danger to everyone around him, last seen weaving thru traffic on NC-55 North.
Either my hygrometer is broken or this house is DRY. 25%!
We pay 12¢ per kWh of electricity.
@0xabad1dea Nice! The doodlers in my family were just treated to a $50 drawing tablet from Monoprice! http://t.co/XkNTqe4UTB
Weird when my worlds collide, geocache buddies show up on LinkedIn.
Endorse their skills? NO
Crawl thru a storm drain with them? SURE!
Most cell phones’ silent alerts… aren’t so silent.
Apple claims that almost everybody* has upgraded to iOS7. I think all of the rest WORK AT MY OFFICE!
(* Dec2013 iOS7=78%, iOS6=18%, old=4%)
Thanks for the tip. How well do you know these friends?
@marshallbrain Sort of the inverse of “Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)” [recommended] fiftydangerousthings.com/about-the-book
I can tell the exact block of code that someone else modified because the grammar in the comments turns funny and they left trailing spaces.
I learned a great word today: “histrionic”. Since I have two pre-teen daughters, this one might come in handy.
First full week of 2014 - “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” app offers 48+4 verses to frame the weeks. sentosa.us/apps/wishes/
First weekend of 2014 was spent lounging around the house, trying to fight off a sniffly cold. :-(
I swear, they should call that game “vowels with friends”.
MatthewKeysLive Oracle becomes first company to decline to comment on Der Spiegel/@ioerror NSA documents - bit.ly/18Y36vV
Trying to “autoingest” finance (DRR) reports from Apple iTunes Connect: “There are no reports available to download for this selection” :-(
@Cocoanetics I am having similar problems (2 years later). Daily & Weekly sales reports OK, but Monthly Finance (DRR) reports fail.
@umairh Would this be a good “first view” for a Doctor Who virgin? Or would it be too many internal references?
16 Guidelines for a better New Year, presented in 52 weekly lessons. Free iPhone app sentosa.us/apps/wishes
@SpiderOak Handle 0-byte files correctly. Lock files for some apps like keepass tend to stick around long after apps delete them & end.
@powderballcp Not me, bro.
@SpiderOak Faster, less CPU, responsive sync client. Better headless support. Remove “SO Hive” default. Better usability. And stay great!
Reset the clock on my crab cage monitor. Most complicated clock ever, had to fix the source code, recompile, reload. :-) #arduino