So here’s something that I really have to thank @Havi for catalysing. Her unique approach to what she calls ‘destuckification’ (which is an awesome word) really resonated with one particular thing I’d been struggling with. I suck. We all suck. At something. And that’s ok. Be OK with your suckitude… Read More
I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty in the hope that it would fix the “I have no memory of your last session” problem that 8.10 introduced. Everything went smoothly, and everything seems to work well. Except one thing. The CPU utilisation was 100% on one core. I’m lucky… Read More
‘The first race won’t be for half an hour,’ said Bingo. ‘We’d better lunch now. Fish the basket out, Jeeves, would you mind?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘The luncheon-basket,’ said Bingo in a devout sort of voice, licking his lips slightly. ‘The basket is not in Mr Wooster’s car, sir.’ ‘What!’ ‘I assumed… Read More
Grr. Sorry folks. My ISP scheduled some maintenance that knocked out my link, and the router didn’t reconnect correctly for some reason. Of course, this had to happen on the two days I was interstate at a client site and couldn’t reset things remotely. Everything’s back online, and I’m looking… Read More
So here’s where you get to order me around. Lucky you! I’m a Dork I read about a few topics that I really love, but that make me a huge dork. You can benefit from my dorkiness for the time it takes to: a) tell me what to write about,… Read More
Today my inner idealist took a heavy blow. It’s not dead, but it sustained a nasty headwound and will require days of bedrest and plenty of antibiotics to recover. I’m involved in a dirty big data migration effort at the moment; dirty being the operative word. Data migrations are never,… Read More
There are lots of reasons big companies suck. Here’s my top 3: The law of averages Inertia They make people anonymous 1. The law of averages As a company gets bigger, it hires more and more people. They say they want to hire the best people, but they don’t. They… Read More
My name is Justin Warren. As part of my day job, I regularly get email that starts with “Dear Warren”. Today, I got an email starting “Dear Jason”. People get my name wrong occasionally when speaking to me in person, usually calling me Jason. I’m used to it. Sometimes I… Read More
According to the news on Triple-J this morning, some churchy type over here has stopped their senior citizen’s Tai-Chi classes because “it’s a practice deriving from the Buddhist faith, and goes against Christianity” or some such. That’s some industrial grade stupid right there. Here is a brief list of other… Read More
Tell me if this sounds familiar: Someone wants to do X, but you know that X is a boneheaded thing to do. You quickly email them saying they should do X because of Y. It’s quite straightforward, you think, and that should be the end of it. Only it isn’t,… Read More
