It's been twelve days since my shoulder surgery so I thought I'd post a summary of what I've been up to.
In the first 24 hours there was an issue that cropped up at work. The problem was caused by an update to some software released by another group in …
I've been considering asking my company to drop my work cell phone plan and pay for my personal cell phone plan. Some people might cringe to be more accessible to their company but work already calls my personal phone all the time. Therefore, the biggest concern I have about doing …
For a very long time I've been writing code at my job that automates some very tedious tasks. It's not Python code, though! It's a macro language that has saved the company a lot of time and energy but suffers from severe limitations:
Work has been very demanding throughout the month of September. The sheer number of hours I worked, especially for the final week, is staggering. On Monday, for instance, I worked from 9:30am to 5:00am the next day (19.5 hours). I continued working 16 hour days throughout the …
I built my computer in 2002, and at the time I chose to dual-boot Red Hat Linux and Windows XP. After maybe two years I noticed that I never booted into Windows, so I uninstalled Windows and never looked back. It's been about seven years since I've had Windows installed …
One of the clients I work with had an interesting day recently. You see, they've been using a Linux-based (presumably Unix before that) medical software package for two decades (or so I've been told). Their server now contains almost two decades of patient records, although I'm absolutely certain it's not …
I've been hired on at a company that provides contract technical support to a number of organizations, and one of the beliefs that I've heard both from users and coworkers is that a reboot is the first solution to try. I want to address what I think about that.
I …