Category Archives: work

Apache Admin Notes: Knowing The Field

For those unaware, I'm an Apache web server admin­is­tra­tor. How­ever, for the last few years, a vari­ety of other web servers have been gain­ing in pop­u­lar­ity and build­ing ded­i­cated fol­low­ings around them­selves. 8 years ago when I started Web­slum your web server options were basi­cally iPlanet (now Sun Java Sys­tem Web Server), Apache, and IIS (which no one …

December 29, 2008 – 2:02 am | By Ryan | Posted in informational, site meta, work | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christ­mas is that it's per­fectly (un)acceptable to crank The Van­dals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a lit­tle, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suf­fice for a quick interlude.

December 23, 2008 – 2:23 pm | By Ryan | Posted in music, work | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Quickie: company meeting

Our com­pany meet­ing is going on right now, and our guest speaker is an astro­naut. Some­times, every once in a lit­tle while, I do so love my job.

July 31, 2008 – 12:06 pm | By Ryan | Posted in work | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Anecdotal: on hand jobs and employment shame

On why I'd even con­sider the crazi­ness of look­ing for another job right now: Yeah. My employer clear like a hojil­lion dol­lars a year from aero­space, defense, physics research, finan­cial sec­tors, any­thing involv­ing matrix cal­cu­la­tions or intense sim­u­la­tion, but that just doesn't fly when you're hav­ing a piss­ing con­test with your dot­com friends. You say "we have soda foun­tains …

July 15, 2008 – 11:25 pm | By Ryan | Posted in work | Tagged , , , | Comments Off