complich8’s journal

You know … a lot of people complain about the oh-so-common mix-ups in things like “their/they’re/there” “its/it’s” “then/than” “who’s/whose” and the ilk.
But those usually show up in relatively informal media, or in the usage patterns of people who don’t (and probably never will) make their livings writing.
One of the things that really cheeses me off [...]

So I was going through the stuff on my desktop, and ran back into a pdf doc “hate_apache.pdf”. “10 Things I hate about Apache”.
And I went through it, and sure enough, I find it’s pretty dang valid, even in a gentoo environment.
So, to address a couple things in it, I started turning off modules, [...]

UPS hardware is TOTALLY worth it for everything computerized.
That is all.

So this ‘normal’ schedule has some interesting consequences, some good, some bad.
I’ve been sleeping like 10-11 pm to 7ish am every day for about 2 weeks. Been at work in the 8 am range every day, including right now. It’s REALLY easy to hit a 40 hour week going in at 8 am. [...]

So yeah, Day 2 went pretty well. They had this neat idea, to basically do a mock evacuation and take everyone out to the Forestry building (about 7 and a half miles away, I’m told) for the wrapup and after-action review. Apparently that went pretty well. I didn’t get time to take [...]