Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Hozered Start Me Up

    June 2, 2022
    Microsoft

    So, I dug out my old laptop and found that it was very low on space. The last time I used it was before Dropbox started using the Save hard drive space feature, so it had a ton of local files that ought to be online only. I did a stupid thing and tried to…

  • Non-specific error messages

    May 5, 2022
    DevOps

    I asked the team that manages our Nagios service to add checks on a log file. In typical fashion, I asked for them to apply it to several test servers now then after these work, add them to prod. Some worked and some didn’t. The failure was with an error: NRPE unable to read output…

  • The email hammer

    April 8, 2022
    Email

    A retired coworker was fond of the saying: If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. A super cranky former coworker railed about the terribleness of email. Mainly that too much stuff tried to go into email when it should be better off in RSS feeds or other. My…

  • Resolution progress 2022 : Q1

    April 2, 2022
    Books / Novels / Writing, Goal Progress, Health / Medicine

    Read 12 30 books. I have finished 8, which is well above the 25% pace at 66.7%. Updating the goal to include 18 more books, so now 30. Will count audiobooks. Not counting kids books. Add 12 read to the kid at least 20 times. 1 of these. Not counting short stories / novellas. 4…

  • Feature request: Thumbs up on email

    March 22, 2022
    Communication

    In work chats, I love that someone will put a thumbs up on a message rather than respond. I will hover over it to see who acknowledged it. To me it means, “what was communicated is complete. No questions. No additional feedback.” Probably it just means, “I accept this, but don’t want to drag this…

  • Resolutions 2022

    January 1, 2022
    Books / Novels / Writing, Goal Progress, Health / Medicine, Uncategorized

    Read 12 books. Not counting kids books. Will count audiobooks. Add 12 read to the kid at least 20 times. Lose 25 pounds. Need to regain some muscle too.

  • Feature request: unwatch

    December 3, 2021
    Internet

    Streaming services track what I have watched so I can see the progress. But only your first time through a series. If I start over, then it can be confusing where I am. I might start over because I didn’t finish and want to give it another chance. Or I want to watch a series…

  • Company Storyteller

    October 28, 2021
    Communication, Work

    Need to add to my LinkedIn something like “company storyteller.” There are individuals in the organization I know to ask the story about why we do what we do. Why do we have this firewall rule not not another? Why are we super strict about this thing but not another? I know many of these…

  • Thoroughness

    October 26, 2021
    Uncategorized

    There was a routine SSL certificate renewal. Vendor sends us a CSR. We send the certificate. They applied the certificate. Naturally, wanting to make sure the issue was resolved, I tried to go to the website and check the certificate was in fact updated. I clicked on the link to the website and got nothing.…

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