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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 […]

Well, my sister’s mother-in-law died.
The funeral is Saturday.
I’m glad it wasn’t a lingering death, but my mom is torqued. Another death. She doesn’t look at deaths as inevitabilities but as personally affective events. Very F.
So, I managed to piss her off with some other unrelated comment. My forte–being a callous INTP. Oh well.

I have seven stubs of posts waiting to be completed or written.
One entry has been in the wings since late September/early October.
In a few weeks, I expect to have time to get these finished and published.

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it–don’t cheat with it.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“An intelligent man is […]