Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Breaking the Bank
Last week, we did what I had thought up until then was only possible with a good amount of grovelling, indirect bribery, and other acts brought about by both emotional and financial desperation.
We broke our mortgage.
To my surprise, this was as easy as sending an email, and now I’m much more knowledgeable about what [...]
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The C Word
Just as I’m about to head back to work, the phone rings.
“Hello”
“Hello, is this Michelle?”
“Yes”
“Hello, this is Nanditha, I’m calling on behalf of CRC bank. You have a credit card with us.”
“Yes…”, I say, as I start to wonder when my credit card was compromised, and how much someone spent at a Swedish Ikea office [...]
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Dodge
After a solid day’s DYI’ing, we decide to walk down the road for some ice-cream. Around the corner I spot what looks like an old white Ford Escort. It seems to be in very good condition, and I wander up to it to investigate the make and model.
The warrant has expired. The registration, also expired, [...]
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
VSSS
“Michelle, can you come help me for a sec?”, asks Sam our token Australian software developer.
“Sure”, I say, and wander over to his desk, pondering what technical enlightenment I can possibly offer him.
“I can’t check in any of my files to source control”, he says.
I take a look, and sure enough there seems to be [...]
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Motorway Algorithms
“The problem”, explains Michael, our company’s token Irish programmer, “is that the script, getItemListing.sql, needs to run before getItemCosting.sql”.
“In fact that script really needs to run before any of the others”, he points out further. “Otherwise it will reference stored procedures that have not yet been created”.
“Right”, I say. “So what do we [...]