That moment when

That moment when you’ve managed to crawl so far back up the rabbit hole of interrupts that you forgot what you were working on before the interruption just satisfied. I cannot remember if there is another question I’m supposed to be answering or task to complete or if I can go back to doing code reviews and then go back to what I said I’d be working on today.

Lesson learned: stop working LIFO and have a process that dumps input into a properly prioritized and annotated queue.

Sportswriters

Unbridled optimism or hopelessly naive?  You make the call:

In a story relating how a team gave up seven goals in the third in a game they had been leading 3 – 0, on their way to their twelfth loss in fourteen games, be sure to mention how they’re still four points out from the last wildcard spot.

Buddy, this team may not earn four more points this season. I think talk of making the playoffs is a bit of a reach.

Working smarter, not harder

New-to-me Windows DOS commands that are equivalent to bash commands that I always use. Another in a long series.

runas [1]
Equivalent to sudo, allows one to run commands as a different user assuming one knows the password for that user
pushd [2]
Maps a network location as a volume
popd [3]
Drops that mapping

Use them in combination and you’ve got remote filesystem mapping from the CLI amongst other ways of doing work on remote machines without having to actually remote out to them. I’ve learned three things today. Can I take the rest of the week off?

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx
[2] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490978.aspx
[3] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490969.aspx