When the SAN admin says, “No, ours isn’t compatible with SSDs.”
Looking at Dmitri here.
Chaosopher's Unlimited
“ Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art. ”
Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)
I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.
(via notational)
If you die, YOU LOSE! YOU GET NOTHING!
“May the snozberries be ever in your favor.”
(Source: niknak79)
(via HijiNKS ENSUE – A Geek Comic - Make It So / As You Wish)
A nice little mashup here. See if you can guess what the other reference is.
After I finish troubleshooting the cluster. Again.
So my weekend. Sunday was 17 hours of this. The glamorous life of a DBA.
When management says we’re keeping SQL Server 2000 for another year
I only have one left in my environment. It must go.
Sketching in Code: The New Job Requirements
I recently dug up this “job requirements” email, which I wrote after a particularly harrowing experience with someone I was expected to manage.
Skills Required:
Ability to write.
You must be able to piece together more than two sentences at a time. Specifically, you must understand how to…
