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Scheduling

I need a cron daemon [1] for my life.

[1] ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/cron_4.1.shar

Glorious project

Some day I’m going to write a Kim Jong-il title generator based on this list of titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Jong-il%27s_titles.

Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven indeed!

Smartest guy in the room

I’m over here by my desk watching a lot of highly educated men right up next to and peering out through the glass windows at the large hail that is coming down.

What is the striking force of a golf ball sized sphere of ice traveling at terminal velocity anyway?

Tetchy!

Link spammers are now getting a bit tetchy. Here’s a sample from the spam filter for the blog’s comments:

Keeping up

There is but a tiny slice of people who will truly enjoy this. Presenting a mashup by a co-worker:

Parody

I love a good Thomas Kinkade parody: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/slide_show/1

Scraping by

My ass has been handed to me. Spent the day scraping the porch floor so we can get it painted. Various fingers and hands are stiff and swollen. Tomorrow should be a fun day at work.

Only 66% of the porch to go.

Special place

That moment when you make a commit to the repository of the culmination of several days worth of grinding on a problem. This is me.

The extra special sauce being that it is one of the cornerstone modules so not only do I get to watch it build before I go home, I get to watch more or less the entire modular ecosystem build.

Tomorrow is integration day. I don’t think my heart can stand up to doing that tonight with no one around to help me support it.

Lessons learned

Learning lessons all day today it seems. Pretty sure I’ve learned these in the past…so obviously I’m not doing as well as I thought.

When you write an MSI custom action that depends on stuff being there, make sure your custom action conditions are such that it doesn’t fire on an uninstall operation.
Somewhat related: Don’t do your installer development testing on your workstation. It’s pretty much exactly what a throw-away virtual machine is for.

So here I am, trying to use MSIZap to clean up my workstation because I can’t uninstall a damn application.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370523%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

An ru TLD that isn’t malicious

The exception proving the rule that every site from the .ru domain is either spam or trying to hijack your computer: Fat Cat Art [1].

The Man Kitty [2] lives in fear that I find myself with sufficient idle time to undertake a similar project using his visage.

[1] http://fatcatart.ru/?lang=en
[2] https://www.facebook.com/oscartjefferson