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Archive for March, 2006

Poissons d’avril

Posted: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 @ 5:53 pm in Language | 10 Comments »

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 life [...]

Get this web site off my home page

Posted: Monday, March 27th, 2006 @ 11:35 pm in Tech | No Comments »

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:
One: [...]

A Sysadmin Is Got to Dream, Boy

Posted: Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 @ 11:40 pm in Personal | No Comments »

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. [...]

Monday MP3s - Cruise Like Dumpendebat Edition

Posted: Monday, March 20th, 2006 @ 4:26 pm in Music | 2 Comments »

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 a fair amount [...]

Amusing

Posted: Monday, March 20th, 2006 @ 11:30 am in Literature | No Comments »

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. Katharyne Swinford nude

Very amusing.
(via Languagehat)

On the road

Posted: Monday, March 20th, 2006 @ 1:30 am in Personal | No Comments »

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 [...]

Idea: HP-UX merging with Solaris

Posted: Saturday, March 4th, 2006 @ 2:58 pm in Tech | 2 Comments »

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 [...]