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What’s Coming Next
First, a few precursors – because these elements are foundational and need to be understood, at least in an abstract manner, to take the next step in understanding. “I am the only way.” How does a cult leader cement his/her … Continue reading
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Advice on Getting Through a Layoff
I struggled a bit deciding whether to write this one. This is a tough time for everyone – some of course, worse than others – and having been through this sort of thing once or twice, I thought I’d put … Continue reading
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Brewing Basics – what you need to start homebrewing
First item! Charlie Papazian’s “The Complete Joy of Home Brewing” – The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Fourth Edition: Fully Revised and Updated : Papazian, Charlie: Amazon.de: Bücher That’s a great book, full of good recipes and even better advice. I’m … Continue reading
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Open Source: A Qualified Failure
Been having a discussion on another board regarding the “open source” movement, and whether it has been a force for good or bad. And I have to share my thoughts on this, that it has been resoundingly terrible – the … Continue reading
Protected: My Accenture Exit Interview
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Delphi is 27!
We’re coming up on the 27th anniversary of the release of Delphi, a programming system that pretty much defined a big chunk of my career. It’s always been a great “secret weapon” in building fantastic software, and I’m proud to … Continue reading
Setting Up A New Fortigate Firewall
Sooo…my Cisco Meraki subscription runs out next month, and Cisco doesn’t want to talk to me about what their re-licensing options are. I like my MX64, the interface is really nice, and the device is super effective. But I can’t … Continue reading
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Justice Must Be Served Upon Them
Unfortunately, ‘taking the high road’ is what led us to where we are now. Taking the high road fails to oppose people who don’t give a shit what road you’re on. I’ve been extremely vocal about this stuff for probably … Continue reading
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The Storm Continues
About a year ago, I wrote “The Perfect (Digital) Storm“. In it, I stressed “Authoritarian Behavior” as a key element to a dystopian hellish future. Some few months earlier, I wrote “The Worst Enemy We Have Ever Faced As a … Continue reading
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Wrestling with Jira
I recently upgraded the home network here, and pulled a load of stuff back in from my AWS cloud. Not because I thought AWS was bad or anything, I just needed to satisfy some geekdom here in the house, and … Continue reading
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Tagged can't connect, database, installation, jira, MS SQL, named instance, timeout
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