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Worst. Cover. Letter. Ever.

This used to contain the text (with names and e-mails taken out) of a cover letter I received from someone applying for a job. The letter was a masterpiece, insulting (either by assertion or implication) almost everyone at the company.
Despite the over-the-top nature of the letter, posting it here and picking on it started to [...]

Posted 10 March 2008 † schof § Dakim § Rants ‡ Comments (0)

A Rough Weekend

I just feel the need to whine for a moment — please indulge me. (Or skip to the next post.)
My house flooded on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I’ve already cleaned up twice; there’s mud on my floor right now, on Monday morning. In addition, we’re late on a big project at the office. I worked [...]

Posted 28 January 2008 † schof § Autobiography § John Mark Schofield Meta § Rants ‡ Comments (0)

Google FTW: Fixing Arrow Problems in OS X Python

I lived with it for ages. I tried to fix it on my own, by selecting different emulation types. Finally I Googled for it. And pretty much instantly found the answer:
python `python -c “import pimp; print pimp.__file__”` -i readline
Moral? If at first you don’t succeed, Google. If Google fails, try, try again.
Update: And to [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 † schof § Programming § Python § Web ‡ Comments (0)

Canada.com Infected With Trojan-Installation Browser Hijack

Summary: Visitors to Canada.com (not hyperlinked for obvious reasons) will have their browsers hijacked, and a series of prompts will download and attempt to install malicious software. This will happen ONLY on the first visit from an IP address. Subsequent visits to Canada.com will not experience the browser hijack.
NOTE: I have only experienced this on [...]

Posted 07 November 2007 † schof § Computers § Web § Web Hosting § security ‡ Comments (1)

Facebook (AKA the man) is holding me down!

Turns out Facebook won’t let me use my root at sudosu dot net address, because they believe real people don’t use addresses with “root” in them. Well, phooie to them!
Here’s my bug report: (with e-mail addresses slightly mangled for publication)
WHAT I DID:
1) On Edit Profile -> Contact page, selected “Add / Remove E-mails.
2) Hit “Change” [...]

Posted 27 September 2007 † schof § John Mark Schofield Meta § Web ‡ Comments (2)

Possible Wordpress Future Post Bug

I reported a bug to WordPress  and I’ve apparently gone as far as I can go with the folks on that bug.
I’ll be continuing this at the URL they suggested, and I’ll update this post.

Posted 21 June 2007 † schof § Computers § Sudosu.net Meta § Web § Web Hosting § WordPress ‡ Comments (0)

Worst. Listening. Comprehension. Ever.

So, we had a failed piece of Apple hardware. One of my techs called the failure into Apple, and they sent an empty box to us so we could ship the bad hardware to Apple.
There are two amazing things about this — first, that Apple’s support tech was incompetent enough to generate a label like [...]

Posted 19 June 2007 † schof § Rants ‡ Comments (0)