Posts by Snipp

From across the pond

The British have put us Americans in an awkward position. We're used to being the drunk uncle in our relationship. We're belligerent, obnoxious, and soil ourselves repeatedly. You good chaps have countered with, "hold my pint."

My SQL may be rusty

My SQL may be rusty, but couldn't the DBA just roll back the open transaction on the TRUNCATE command?

Here's the thing about Pennsylvania...

I live in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but don't let our liberal veneer, East Coast adjacency and Democratic Governor fool you.

We voted Trump. It's Mississippi and Alabama in the rural areas. Unfortunately, their bile infects the urban areas also.

Just a notion...

Since we, as Americans, elected a Certified (yes, this is a formal, legal qualification) Ignoramus to the highest office in the land, do you Limeys assume the lot of us are prattling cattle with a low ceiling of rationalism?

I haven't watched the interview. But Fox News isn't actual news. It's a propaganda machine with leggy blondes. Hannity is a college dropout blowhard who is light on facts, but heavy on emotional responses.

You darn IT guys

Qualifies as epic in my world. This one goes out to all you mid-tear IT drones who are inundated with sales calls you're not even allowed to approve.

The most import feature of a good DevOps team is answering the phone at 3AM because your app is crashing.

Commentard: "Star Wars was a total remake of EP IV."

Me: "No shit, Nancy. That's the exact reason why most fans loved it."

comment tu dis...

This article is operating on the false premise that a reason is needed to recuse yourself of IT duties three years in.

Balls

This fuckup seriously affected my work day. Remote users were bitching in my ear on a Friday. And our Cisco phones went down too.

Noble spirit

Short term fluctuations (i.e. the last two years) are filed under weather, not climate. This article can not be construed as a cromulent assessment of global weather patterns.

Nintendo should stop being such dildos and release Star Fox 2 for SNES for goodnesssakes.

Does Microsoft offer a program that expunges the obsolete server knowledge from your frontal lobes? It's beginning to sting.

I may have problems passing a background check. Is that cool?

I would apply, but I'm not qualified. I only have a University degree in writing and work in IT. Oh wait..

It looks almost exactly like the Lumia 635.

Windows 8.1 is the girl in Billing who is office-hot.

Blackberry is the proverbial drunk chick, late to the party. Sure, they've got the goods, but they've been passed around like a plate of hors d'oeuvres. There are some redeeming qualities, but it that something you really wanna take home to mum?

States led by Republican legislatures purposely dragged their feet in committing to forming their own state healthcare exchanges. Our governor in Pennsylvania did this. This delay caused uncertainty in the number of people who are looking to sign up through the Gov portal.

Sure, the government site deserves any blame for bad code or lack or scalability, but a lot of Red States are off loading their healthcare responsibilities to the Gov. They didn't do this in a timely fashion so they could maximizing screwing up the deployment of the new system, then sit back and criticize it.

Wonderful news. It's already as smart as George Bush.

Taking shots at Hotmail? Talk about going after low-hanging fruit. Luckily, I have no dignity either.

The early SPAM filter was abysmal. I remember having to abandon an account because my inbox was flooded with dicks (more like, hot male, eh?) Sorry.

You soon would have to weed your mailbox daily, lest you let it get out of control.

When I first registered my account in 1997, there wasn't a whole lot of other options. Sure, there was your University email box, but you'd rather keep incriminating evidence far away from school.

Lisa, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Lisa.