I'm really looking forward to this weekend, even though I have a lot to do at home. I really didn't want to be at work today, but I did get a lot of work done.
This kind of stuff just cracks me up…
Although LOLCats and ICanHasCheeseburger do get on my nerves, sometimes they produce really funny stuff.
A few years ago, it was really important to our sales department to put a .00 at the end of prices on one of our websites, despite the fact that all amounts were round numbers. Today it was really important to not have a .00 at the end of every price.
I was in Edinburgh in August 2001 during their big festival and saw a really cool street band playing. I kicked myself for not finding out who they were, or buying one of their CDs. Tonight, while watching a PBS special on traveling in Scotland, I saw them again! On TV! Someone has to know who these guys are! Please help if you can!
This is the picture I took in 2001, scanned from slide film:
Here are some pictures from tonight's PBS show:
If you know who this band is, please tell me so I can buy all their CDs!
Here is a video of the band from the TV show (15.7Mb).
Update: 18 May 2011 I have finally found them!! The band is called Saor Patrol! See the image that cemented it for me.
I'm trying to download a file for one of my servers. Since I don't have a lot of room on the main drive (c:), I'm saving it to my d: drive. The problem is, all the downloaded bits are stored on c: until the entire file is completed, which is retarded. There isn't enough room, so I can't download the file, even though I have 600Gb free on d:
This kind of behavior is asinine If I want a file saved to a different location, why can't the temporary file go there too?
Last night (a Sunday) I had the misfortune of taking I-90 home at 9:30pm. Right when a road crew was working on the asphalt. For some unholy reason, they were out working during what was probably the busiest part of the day on Sunday—right when everybody's heading home.
Anyway, right at the on-ramp there was a big sign that said Left Land Closed, so I stayed in the right lane, directly behind a semi-trailer truck. The going was slow, and got slower as more and more people passed us using the left lane to sneak a bit ahead. This pissed me off something fierce.
About four cars back from me was another big semi. The driver finally got as fed up as I was and moved into the middle of the freeway, bless his 18-wheeled little heart, and blocked the lane from further jackholes slowing the rest of us down when they try to merge back into already slow traffic.
I rolled down my window and put a big thumbs up out for him. I hope he saw it and didn't think I was flipping him off.
Remember my post about a botnet attack the other day?
Well, the next day I ran across this news article. To briefly quote:
Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service.
My Woopra account just got approved. It took over two weeks, but they are still in beta. It looks really cool, though! Unfortunately, their servers are down and I can't connect the admin application right now 
First Young Dubliners tickets, and now a new Great Big Sea album! w00t!
PS: If you pre-order Fortune's Favour you get a free download of three bonus mp3s.
I just picked up tickets to the Young Dubliners at the Big Easy in Spokane for June 24th. I've seen them in concert before and really enjoyed it. They put on a great show.
Wired has an article about surviving a zombie apocalypse. Being an avid UrbanDead player since Ben mentioned it in one of his posts, this article is right up my alley.
My ssh server has been under a crazy botnet attack for the last couple of days. I shut the server down for 24 hours, and when I started it back up today they just came right back.
I have some really good rules that take care of automatically banning any IP address that attempts to connect more than 3 times in 5 minutes, but it's not a permanent ban. I'm issuing permanent bans on the ones that are trying to connect today, but there are so many I don't think it's even worth my time. I have a very limited number of users that can log in via ssh, and these dictionary attacks won't be very good at breaking into their accounts. Good passwords on the side also help, but it's just annoying to see repeated login attempts in my logfiles and on my real-time monitor.
They're doing something to the air conditioning system in the building I work in today. From time to time it shuts off and everything gets really quiet. It's kinda creepy, really. All I can hear is the sound of my computer's fan spinning round. And the occasional wildlife noise of people out roaming the hallways.
I got a chisel set recently, pretty heavy duty. Last night I spent an hour or so sharpening them until each one could shave hair off my arm. You could just about cut a mortise by hand with these things right now…