I was thinking to myself last night that it’s been nearly 3 months since I switched jobs and there are absolutely no regrets. It’s AWFULLY REFRESHING to not dread waking up and going to work with every particle of your being. When I come home at night, my very soul and ambition to live is [...]

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Yes, I’m the supreme slack. I haven’t made a new post in weeks, so sorry. I could have filled up the entire time with snide remarks about my old boss, or how awesome my new job is, or about all the ridiculously fun things we’ve done over the past 3 weeks, but I didn’t. I’ll [...]

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Yep, at the Hazel Park Race Track! Guess he gets to dork it out all day and gamble on his lunch hour.

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I got a new suit. It has pinstripes. I like my new suit.

Why do I have a new suit? Guess.

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If I didn’t have music at work, I would have killed myself a long time ago….
[12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just dropped
[13:50] mrelectro37: why
[13:51] djdefunkt: you know what
[13:51] djdefunkt: it was just my net
[13:51] djdefunkt: i have been on the phone for the past hour
[13:51] djdefunkt: our t1 dropped
[13:51] mrelectro37: SUPER WEAK
[13:51] djdefunkt: [12:37] djdefunkt: frisky just [...]

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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a [...]

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Note: if you are intimidated by geekspeak look away from this post.
I spent the better part of a few hours this morning trying to figure out why I could not get a virtual appliance to boot on one of my VMware Server boxes. I would start the guest OS, but would get nothing but a [...]

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I need to write a nasty letter to the vending machine company here at work. They always seem to put the Butterfinger bars so high up in the machine that when the machine drops the them to vend, the candy bars inevitably break.
That’s almost as good as the time they put the pop-tarts all the [...]

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Ever wanted to put together a VMware virtual machine host without using windows, but were too intimidated? If you�re like me, you like the idea of using a low overhead OS on your host boxes to maximize the resources available for your virtual machines.
Unfortunately, up until now any *nix system install had a bit of [...]

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While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused.

The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list.
Oh and trogdor.
What the heck [...]

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