Archive for the 'humor' Category

I know it’s in there.

March 23rd, 2009

This is how I feel about a little shell script I threw together this morning:

I wrote it, I ran it, it ran without error in test mode… it ran without error in a state where it didn’t have anything to do… it ran without error in a state where it had to fix something… I […]

How to make your hiring manager cry

March 6th, 2008

I feel a little let down. You see, I’m hiring for an open sysadmin position, and … it turns out that it is hard work. Curse you, recession, keeping everybody from wanting to job-hop willy-nilly!
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted the job to LOPSA and Sage’s job boards. (Representin’ my […]

Honestly.

January 4th, 2008

Why does it always fall to a Friday evening for backups scripts to go bonkers? I ask you. Sheesh.

Best. Documentation. Ever.

June 19th, 2007

So, I got sick of editing some repetitive files over and over with the same stuff, and decided to convert it all to m4. Whereupon I stumbled across what I have officially decided is the most accurate documentation ever:
When writing macros for m4, most of the time they would not work as intended[.]
Finally! […]