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By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu May 14, 2009 at 09:24:09 AM EST) A Day in the Life, WTF, weekend duty, torrents, LOL What, pie (all tags)
Sunday Bloody Sunday

"Yo, Dawg!"

It's Freddo. This can't be good. It never is.

"You gotta help me, mate!"

I gotta?? I never saw any clause in my contract which read "Der Arbeitnehmer ist verpflichtet, Freddo zu helfen wenn er dringend bittet oder den Begriff 'mate' verwendet".

"You're not doing anything this weekend, are you?"

I dunno... relaxing, cleaning, catching up on My Name is Earl, downloading kitty pr0n... I have 18Mb broadband; the possibilities are endless.


Poll inside.
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Terms of Enragement

un·planned (ŭn-plānd')
adj. 
   1. Not intended; unintentional.
   2.
         a. Having no particular purpose, organization, or structure; random.
         b. Not thought out or prepared in advance; spontaneous: an unplanned adventure; an unplanned picnic.

Poll: Help me chart my course
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My father’s family name being Canine,

and my atheist names Really Evil, my infant tongue could make of all  names nothing longer or more explicit than "Reelk". If last Wednesday was your birthday but you only told me this an hour ago, you don't get to be angry at me for not baking you a cake.

Poll: commuter etiquette
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Cow-Orkers XV: Every Silver Cloud

I've finally been granted a new desk location away from Mr. Doodoo-Head and Mr. Yelly-Mouth!

Poll: exists only to keep dairy short and succinct.
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 02:48:36 AM EST) A Day in the Life, Death-by-PowerPoint, SSO, LOL What, training, pie (all tags)
Text Adventure Games

Remember in the olden days how the only graphics you got with a game were the box design? Infocom made some killer games, my favourite being Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What I wasn't so thrilled about were some of the steps you had to take in an exact order. Do any one thing wrong and you'd only find out far too late in the game, forcing you to start over and once again order the beers and peanuts and sandwich. If you didn't take the junk mail with you, you were fucked up in the Vogon ship and couldn't get the Babel fish.

Corporate games are no different, except that the plot's not nearly as amusing.

Poll: What's worse?
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 01:05:47 PM EST) A Day in the Life, LOL WHAT, fuckwit, pie (all tags)
Vacation
I haven't quit writing.
Written on Saturday in a vet's waiting room, posted Monday night from Oban, Scotland after many not-so-wee drams.


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By ReallyEvilCanine (Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 05:01:22 AM EST) A Day in the Life, Moo!, LOL What, pie (all tags)
Holy Cow!

Andrew is a born-and-bred deep Bavarian with the thick accent and dialect. His language is quite colourful in a completely different manner of "colourful" than is mine here. I like the guy, even when he stacks the team event dodgeball team in his favour.

Andrew likes idioms. He uses idiomatic phrases all the time as is his language's nature and from time to time he tries to spread his wings a bit, often with ensuing hilarity.

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Cow-orkers III: Language School

I'm sitting at my new desk in the Panopticon, perched high atop Munich on the first floor, just another $MegaCorp monkey. And now, apparently, an English teacher. My new neighbour Joe interrupted me and asked, "What is ze difference between mouse and mouse?"

WTF?!

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By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu May 18, 2006 at 06:20:35 AM EST) A Day in the Life, cubicle, LOL What, WTF, pie (all tags)
LOL What?!

LOLLERSKATES!

I can't stop laughing!

I had a look at the queue of incoming tickets and stumbled across this one:

Can you tell us if $YourBigApp is secure from the following:
  1. Buffer Overflow
  2. SQL Injection
  3. Script Injection
  4. URL Injection
Now guess which customer it was.

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Brutal

I've been working 17 hours each day since Wednesday. I hate Windows. I hate Windows Updates. I despise Windows "Genuine Advantage" some of the worst double-plus-good newspeak ever, right up there with "Digital Rights Management". I'm plagued by Windows' Automatic Updates. I'm getting boned by Terminal Services Application vs. Server modes.

But I really hate Citrix.

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Running Around in Circles

With locations in the US and Europe a customer had chronic speed problems in Europe. E-Mail was slow, adding attachments resulted in time-outs, queries could take half an hour, often timing out as a result.

Inside I will make you say "LOL WHATTF".

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