Showed this to james a couple weeks ago, he wanted the link to pass on, so I figured I’d just blast it out to everyone…

“An Illustrated History of Failure”

http://web.archive.org/web/20100420061242/http://blip.tv:80/file/1137169

Today was our quarterly production operations meeting. SysOps, AppOps, NetOps, StorageOps, Security, Project Management, QA, Technical Service Management, Enterprise App Services, IS, etc.. Probably 100 people there, hour long meeting.

My manager is out today, so I got to present two slides. I may have been the only one who knew I was talking. Got lots of compliments. I’m kinda buzzing. Good day so far.

For those who aren’t subscribed to my flickr feed, here’s me looking all businessey.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/large-gallery/0,25410,5035111-5013800-2,00.html

Just marked “Buy a house” complete on 43 things… A bit late, but I haven’t been there lately.

http://www.43things.com/person/bswopes

Replaced a broken sprinkler. It leaks a bit, but the new one doesn’t shoot water higher than the roof anymore. Replaced 3 of the recessed bulbs downstairs with CFL flood light bulbs. Not able to find a westlock door knob to replace the broken one, but I’ll give it some more work.

Major accomplishment today was macguyvering replacement rollers for one of my windows. I couldn’t find the right replacements, but I popped out the rusted rollers (with some effort and chiseling with a screwdriver) and replaced them with some out of a different type of roller. Not perfect, but still a victory. The window actually slides now.

Sent out invites for the first movie night. Its Halloween, so I don’t expect much of a turnout, which is fine. Everyone will be drained after work, probably has plans already, and most people won’t want to drive out here to the boonies just to watch Saw and Scream. If I missed you and you want to come, let me know. I probably just don’t have an address I could send the evite to. No drama allowed.

Columbus day tomorrow. I actually have it off, so I’ll spend it calling the county appraiser to ask why I got a bill, and the mortgage company to tell them that they have the co-borrower down as the primary on the account.

I’ve decided to start keeping “to do” lists. I’ve been letting things slip, cause I figured I could always remember my tasks, but there’s just too much to do now.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/09/22/the-solar-bra-wha/

Hooray for Time Machine!

My iMac’s hard disk died a slow painful death… Slow as in, it got really really really fucking slow and then died. Replaced free under applecare, but what about my data?

Well, Time Machine had been chugging along, regularly backing up to an extarnal disk… Boot up under leopard for the first time and as it comes up “Would you like to restore from time machine?” Why yes, yes I would… Couple hours later, my machine is up and nearly perfect. Turns out I had excluded one directory deliberately, which made sense but is a bit annoying… And I had to repair permissions. Otherwise, all looks great. Highly recommended.

I need to get my parents on a mac.

webcam of the LHC…

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

jsavoie:blake-o
jsavoie: are you taking up 100% of the disk space on /misc?
blake swopes: that your way of saying I need to go on a diet?

http://io9.com/5039185/why-we-deserve-better-villains–and-how-to-get-them

Beware of spoilers.