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Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

• August 19th, 2003
• Posted in The Padded Cell
• By Drew

I hate statistics. Can I emphasis that enough? < -- I see dumb people!!! --> I get away from it but it just keeps coming back… No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Spam spam eggs and spam…

• August 19th, 2003
• Posted in The Padded Cell
• By Drew

…can I get that without the spam? Our support inbox is currently being flooded by ‘Re: Details’, ‘Re: That Movie’, ‘Re: Wicked Screensaver’ and ‘Thank You’ — all stuffed with a virus. Then I am told that our mail gateway was down this morning after I ask about why I haven’t gotten a test email I sent No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

A productive day?

• August 18th, 2003
• Posted in The Padded Cell
• By Drew

It seems I have managed – for the most part to have had a productive day. Not too many calls – and some good items closed out. Despite having 3-4 items come flaming from JO even! Granted I really need to pummel some open cases – progress is progress isn’t it? In other Related posts:

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An external editor – to allow more prolific posting

• August 18th, 2003
• Posted in Das Blinkin Lights
• By Drew

A test post of sorts. The editor of the moment is Zempt — looks like a winner so far. A downside appears to be that I can’t save to the blog as a draft. Dang it. Another neuance is that posts made with it are adding the ‘TrackBack’ ping item below, gerrr. Lets see Related posts:

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Communing with Ozzy

• August 13th, 2003
• Posted in Damaged Ink . General . geek . wordpress
• By Drew

Yes – it’s been a while. I was really hoping I’d have something here – damn it. Have to try later. Is this broke? – was acting up when I started this post. Blog Blog Blog! No related posts.[ READ MORE ]

Dream Costs

• August 4th, 2003
• Posted in House of Cards
• By Drew

Trying to remember a rather odd dream from this morning. Hope I don’t make too much of it up =] let it begin: I had gone someplace to use some type of conferencing service – to interview ‘teachers’ – not instructors – not professors – ‘teachers’. That was the intent. I spent a long Related posts:

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Bad database – go stand in the corner

• August 1st, 2003
• Posted in The Padded Cell
• By Drew

Well that was fun – for over an hour all logins – with or without password – were being turned away with a ‘bad password’ message. While we have three data-centers – one server was stoping all access. All this when we are trying to the the authentication servers synced up to begin No related posts.[ READ MORE ]