February 4, 2008: National “Call Out Sick Day”

Today is the biggest day for calling in ‘sick’ to work of the entire year. This makes sense, though, as yesterday was the biggest day for domestic abuse all year. So, one would assume, that after a huge day of domestic violence that lots of people are not in a good position to come to …

February 3, 2008: Oreo is Famous, Again

While doing some other research today I came across a really nice Introduction to Cron for you UNIX users out there. And this page, which I have found before, on easy ways to do remote file copies via SSH. I wanted to get up decently early this morning, probably around nine, but when I started …

February 2, 2008: Lazy Saturday at Home

I had to get up at a quarter to eight this morning to do some work for the office. One of the hazards of supporting London, Belfast and Manama is that anything that happens on the weekend is likely to happen very, very early. So even though I am working at eight here I am …

February 1, 2008: Perseveration

Cold, rainy and windy. That is my day today. I had to be up early to do some early morning deployment work to get teams prepped for the work that we will do tonight. Then I covered an early morning conference call. Nothing exciting, just one of those “sit on the phone in case something …