Archive for August, 2004
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004
RITPO (Resources Information Technology Program Office) is an IT automation agency that is a branch of Tricare, the medical services branch of the Defense Department. We are working on a project for them and they have configured a server for us to unleash our software upon. Thusly, they have combined ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
Sometimes interesting quotes turn up in odd places. A spam email that somehow escaped my email client's junk filter had this text in the body of the email after the pitch about Vigra:
"But a boy takes everything as a matter of course. As the tree of knowledge sprouts and expands ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
In our web application for DESC, we had to build in a "rules of behavior" page that users are forced to look at before they can log in to the system. On this page are declared the rules under which the users should conduct themselves when using DOD systems such ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2004
When the company was asked by Josh for potential interview questions for the Junior Systems Admin position, Sean replied with these evil puzzles:
Question 1:
There are two candles that can light for exactly 60 minutes. You can
light the candles from either end, but each candle is not evenly made so
you can't ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2004
"The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands
itself, and is resisted."
- St. Augustine (354-430)
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
A link of the day for computer geeks:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.topic.generator.html
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Monday, August 9th, 2004
"Salmonella Salsa"
(n) The name of a concoction comprising mostly of salmonella typhimurium. Term coined by the Rajneeshee Cult in 1984 in their attempts to sway a local election by poisoning the voters as they ate in restaurants.
Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain a.k.a. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Text ripped from http://hem.passagen.se/jan.olofsson/biowarfare/history/rajneeshee.html:
"As the summer ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2004
Back in 1999 when I started at BKA, I began to experience how people in the federal government speak. It is pretty well known how acronym-heavy the Department of Defense is.
If there is such a thing as an acronym email filter that works like a spam filter, it would have ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2004
Part of our nightly rituals, no different from all other parents, is to read to Iris before she goes to bed. During these readings, Iris seems to concentrate on the books, swimming in the images and words. She even helps to turn the pages (with some effort on ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
Improve your diction using The BurnMeister!
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