The “miracle Allah fish” phenomenon has hit the news just a couple days before the 1st of April; the fish could have literally, not just figuratively, been poissons d’avril. I saw it on Michelle Malkin’s site, where she, predictably, managed to make a complete fucking ass out of herself: So, finding Allah’s name on sea [...]
This humorous story is making the rounds of the Internet: A very unfortunate man, the city manager of Tuttle, OK, made a complete fool of himself over the course of a simple misunderstanding when the city’s website went down. These two quotes, in combination, will haunt the poor fellow for the rest of his life: [...]
That’s right, readers, I’m out of town again. Lots of time on the road. Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand. Dumpendebat was a system administrator; and for a sysadmin, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don’t write Java code, he don’t configure routers, or tune SQL queries. He’s a man [...]
Girlies wanna ride with a brother like me, Cause they be hear me gettin’ funky frequently –LL Cool J, “The Boomin’ System” That’s right, chers lecteurs — it’s your chance to cruise like Dumpendebat. Today you’re getting eight MP3s, if you want them, of some of my favorite car music. Like many Americans, I spend [...]
What if Geoffrey Chaucer had a blog? Top X searches in myne networke: 10. John Gowere swyving a donkey 9. woolen hose 8. discounte ale 7. Kent 6. Macrobius for dummyes 5. howe to thinly veil acquaintences as fictional characteres 4. arabic numerals 3. readynge %(%(%ing chancerye hand 2. Sheene palace dynnere guest listes 1. [...]
I’ve been in lovely South Jersey for the past two weeks, readers, spending many, many hours with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP ProLiant servers, and Oracle Application Server 10g, staying in hotels without Internet access, relying heavily on coffee and Marlboro 100s. The rest of the month is likely to be more of the same.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy is openly proposing the idea of merging Sun’s operating system (Solaris) with HP’s brand of Unix (HP-UX). I’ll go ahead and admit it, readers: this idea excites me. From a business standpoint, I have no idea if this idea makes sense or not. Who cares? From a technical standpoint, I [...]
