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Today is Patch Thursday, the day I rally the troops to review patches for our company.
It seems simple, but you need to remember most of these people are IxTx and serious SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), so they are focused on their areas–anything outside those areas is “someone else’s problem”. My role as Facilitator, Cheerleader, and […]

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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word ‘frustration’.
Alan Jay Perlis (1922-1990) US computer scientist

This was on the Celtic Christianity Yahoo! Group in September 2002
KENNETH, SAINT CAINNECH CANICE
# 454: (525-600) After plague struck his monastery in Ireland he came to Wales, and visited Scotland. He was an attractively forgetful character, visiting Columba with only one shoe on and forgetting his crozier on the beach. He nevertheless restored a dead […]

My beloved 20 GB 4th Gen iPod died this past week. It’d been having some problems, but the clamp on the case worked loose and the iPod dropped on concrete from hip height.
That finished it. It struggled over the weekend then gave up the ghost on Monday.
I’d been waiting for this, so I had researched […]