Tarred

Is this the part of the day where I remark on how tired I am, that I’m not particularly keen on the idea of going into work today, that one of the drawbacks to dogs is their unwillingness to be litter trained, and that Oxford commas are the bomb?

If so, you can pretty much guess what I’d say at this point.

A sad thing

Former Lincoln Stars head coach Chad Johnson was found dead [1] in Fargo. While authorities don’t suspect foul play the framing looks an awful lot like something that would be hard to describe as accidental. Makes his stated reason for resigning days before the season started sound a lot more ominous.

A sad day in all of Starsville. Condolences to his family.

[1] http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/278472/

Remembrance

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

Why thin clients will always lose in the end

Test run of my repos modification script: < 10 seconds

“Live” run of my repos modification script: > 10 minutes

The difference? Tests are done on a local clone and the live run is done against a server sitting out on the WAN.

You should have seen how long it took when I was doing iterative checks over the network instead of capturing the output of a giant svn ls operation.

The good news being, it all works so I can go home now!