Behold, a startling tale of awful tech support staff, too little too late management strategies, and verbose tirades of daring do that was supposedly done did! Since January, my virtual private server account with Tektonic has gone down more than a freshman sorority pledge. Every time, I have had to play this two-step swinging game [...]
Matt Ball has posted a sizable write-up which neatly sums up the rising tide of backlash against the so-called “Delicious Generation” of software developers currently bilking milking abandoning their installed base every 6-to-8 months.
I had been working on something similar, though admittedly much, much less details when this dropped. My interest in this was strictly [...]
I no longer define my class standing in terms of the money I’ve made or the things I own. It’s not even something as pedestrian as the neighborhood I live in or the car I drive.
I now define it in terms of how much time I have to spend in laundromats.
Wüsthof has a relatively new line of knives, called the Classic Ikon line. It looks really familiar.
In fact, the more I look at it, the more it looks like a more expensive version of the Victorinox Forged Professional line of solingen knives (which, by the way, I have already raved about because they’re excellent European [...]
In the last month and a half since I touched this, apparently there was a major religious holiday (Kwanzaa, duh), the Patriots cemented their place in Final Jeopardy history for the next decade, and the doesn’t-mean-a-god-damned-thing elections in Iowa and New Hampshire can’t decide between six of one or a half dozen of the other.
I’ve [...]