a Daniel Howell blog
Posted in Work on Jan 27th, 2010
I hate polo shirts. Hate. I don’t use that word often, because it’s been devalued by society. But I truly loathe, despise, and hate with the intensity of one thousand burning suns, polo shirts.
They suck.
Now, wearing a suit to work every day, that’s not going to happen for me. I work in tech, and I’ll [...]
Posted in Work on Dec 28th, 2009
All my documents, everywhere I go.
Automatic syncing.
Works on Mac, PC, and iPhone.
Makes a shared drive icon so I don’t have to FTP or HTTP or EIEIO.
AND!
Puts my music where I want it.
Shared my documents with whomever I want, anywhere they are, and they only have to click.
Simple photo sharing.
AND!
It’s free.
Zumodrive.
I wonder if they need a [...]
Posted in Work on Nov 9th, 2009
Daniel: Where the {triple explicative} is Cygwin on your laptop?
Totally unimportant person: Oh, I hide all my icons.
What do you mean, you hide all your icons?
I don’t like a messy computer.
You have a messy computer if you can’t find your icons.
No, I like to see the picture.
But if you can’t find the icons, you can’t [...]
Posted in Work on Oct 30th, 2009
Wake up, Brain!
“Wha? I was thinking about plastic switchblades and large Swedish TSA agents. What do you need, Daniel?”
Need your help in doing some research. Trying to install this Oracle patch and it’s failing because it cannot find Java.
“Java?”
Yes. The Oracle patch cannot find the Java development kit.
“Is that a problem?”
What do I know? The [...]
Posted in Work on Sep 13th, 2009
One of the great joys of this process is the division of assets. Hurray, right? Nothing more fun that putting stuff in His and Hers piles.
So my old 401k is being divided into two and I have choices of what I want to do with My Half:
Leave it where it is and let my old [...]
Posted in Work on Sep 4th, 2009
“Daniel, I want you to go over to the lab and run some test cases. Make sure they work.”
I wrote them. Of course they work.
“We’ve changed all the software.”
Oh really?
“And all the IP addresses are now static.”
Static?
“And we’ve split the services among three blades.”
When did we get blade servers?
“Nobody can help you get the stuff [...]
Posted in Work on Aug 31st, 2009
/lunch time driving to the test facility, 300hp 350z under my foot, a good night’s sleep behind me, windows down, and tunes blaring.
“WHETHER YOURE A BROTHA OR WHETHER A MOTHA YOURE JUST STAYIN ALIVE, STAYIN ALIVE!!”
/takes blind turn, ever so slightly tries to let the rear fishtail, fails due to lack of speed and [...]
Posted in Work on Aug 8th, 2009
A big thanks to MMO-Champion for their extreme data-mining expertise and this screenshot, (click the pic to see it full-sized.)
It has a scope! It has a few shiny things, a very nice sight, and it’s Alliance-only.
Today, I’m a happy ex-WoW hunter.
Posted in Work on Jul 30th, 2009
So I used to work for NASA — but not really, and if I told you who I really worked for you’d go, Huh? so I say I worked for NASA and you go, OH! Rockets and Stuff! and you’d be right, so I say NASA — until a month and a half ago, when [...]
“YOU ARE IGNORING YOUR BLOG”
So sayth TJ, so it has been done.
The problem is thus: most of the stuff I want to write about, I’m not permitted to write about. When 99% of your life is X and Y, and you cannot write about X and Y, it’s very hard to find the time and [...]
