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Datacenter Confidential #8

Vindication! What is this? INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/09/28 02:20:33 | 2:20:33> |||| [inprogress/] S! [clown]/1/gg_cars-com.product.spd5//-1/1{t:119 c:gg-cw01.dev.COMPANY p:100.30 ems:3839652 qms:28414413 I'll tell you what that is.. that's Java running our application on Free-fucking-BSD, that's what.. How you like them apples, Product Manager?

Her Job

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A moment of levity.

Iran..

Wondering where to find resources online to help in the struggle to defend the sovereignty of Iran against criminal mad-men Bush and Cheney? Look no further: http://www.iransolidarity.endofempire.org/ If you live in New York, or you simply love the first amendment, please let this scumbag know: As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school to protest its decision to invite the leader to campus. In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia's insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school. Regarding the World Trade Center debacle, in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad wanted to place a wreath of mourning from the Ir...

Datacenter Confidential #7

As if I needed more evidence that the Project Manager title was a secret cabal intent on interfering the the affairs of operations personnel I give you the following example: This morning the same project manager described in Datacenter Confidential #6 sent an email to my boss complaining about, well, let's put it in his own words: We’re running short on PROJECTNAME grid machines. I wonder if we have a status on PROJECTGRIDWORKER, which went down few weeks ago. Also, is it possible to run Linux on PROJECTMYSQLSERVER? It appears that in order to run our java programs on it, we have to modify/port the underlying scripts. We’re really have no time to do such a thing. It will be much easier if all grid machines are consistent and run on standard operating system. I’d strongly recommend we standardize on Linux for all of our production and development grid/non grid, as it is consistent and seems to be the industry standard. We need a couple of machines to be configured for golden gate ...

For the Record

If you are a "pro-blogger" you are a columnist. Saying "pro-blogger" is like saying "professional amateur." goofballs has spoken! (Watch this come back to bite me later.)

START THE RIOT

Here is a link to an interview with Reverend Lennox Yearwood , the man illegally battered and politically imprisoned by fascists in the video above. Government should fear the people not the other way around. Revolution now.

Vodka, again

Apparently (and it comes as no surprise, again), I can list as an intellectual ally one Anthony Bourdain : Chocolate martini : Both chocolate and liquor are good in bars, but ordering them together announces that you don't like or appreciate either. Anyone who requests this drink should also get a T-shirt that says "I am an asshole, please take my money." Chef Bourdain has been known to guest blog over at Michael Ruhlman's site , who is a fellow Clevelander. And of course the Bourdain quote is a direct ideological validation of my previously stated thoughts regarding the state of the modern cocktail in general and "status" vodkas in particular.