Posts Tagged ‘incompetence’

April Whinging: Near-death experiences and complaint letters

Friday, May 1st, 2009

OK, so… April. Yeah, that wasn’t a party.
First there were the two weeks in a four week period that I was on the road for work–that’s more being away from home than I like.
Then there was the massive and literally stunning workload–I don’t want to go into detail about my job here, but the scope [...]

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January 27, 2009 12:00 am

I found a place–or rather was referred to one–on Saturday that would happily sell me a replacement 1TB SATA2 drive for my RAID array, and at a decent price. (Yes, you can read that as “Future Shop can bite my shiny metal ass.”) The array worked perfectly, and none of my roughly 2TB of data in that array was lost due to the drive failure. I wish I could report the same level of success with Intrepid Ibex and wireless–I did finally get the wireless “working”, but it disconnects every 15 minutes or so, and I am becoming very familiar with the term “kernel panic”.

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Canada’s Most Ridiculous News Story This Week…

Friday, June 20th, 2008

…is here
The frightened mother rushed back to the campus and was stunned by what she heard – the principal, vice-principal and her daughter’s teacher were all waiting for her in the office, telling her they’d received allegations that Victoria had been the victim of sexual abuse – and that the CAS had been notified.
How did [...]

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You can put data in…

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I’ve read all of Christopher Buckley’s satires, and have almost uniformly enjoyed them. I only recently got caught up, reading the latest one, Boomsday, just before the holidays late last year. I enjoyed it, too.
However, there was one thing in there that really caused me to lose my suspension of disbelief. It wasn’t the idea [...]

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So far, so good

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

So, I did manage to travel half-way around the world between Friday and Sunday, popping in on London and Honk Kong before settling down in Melbourne.
My days have been pretty work-focused so far: Monday I essentially worked all day, returned to the hotel ate dinner, and was asleep before 9. Yesterday (Tuesday) I worked all [...]

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Even More Things I Did Not Know

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Science has brought us a permanent, but easily-removable, tattooing ink. Does this change the metatext of tattooing? I mean, the pain is still there, but if the permanence isn’t part of the subtext anymore, what does that mean for the story? Is it to obvious to predict the rise of a serial-tattooing culture, or a [...]

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