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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a reason to think twice about your colocation provider: CIHost.com has been broken into four times over the past two years, and had servers and equipment stolen. Their Chief Corporate Counsel, James Eckels, says the robbers “Knew what they’re doing,” and that their facility is “in a bad part of town.”
There’s very little payoff [...]
I’m putting together a postinst (post installation) script for a Debian package I created for work. And there’s a little C program in there that needs to run as root, but be called by a regular user.
Well, there’s a standard way of doing that in Linux/Unix, called setuid. You set the “setuid bit” to on, [...]
Mark Pilgrim nails the whole iPhone unlocking/bricking brouhaha:
I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want. It’s not just the iPhone; people did the exact same thing with the AppleTV too… I thought the big draw for Apple hardware was that “It Just [...]
This is for an administrative assistant position:
Hello, Dear Hiring Manager,
My Name Is REDACTED. I Am Looking For A Stable Employment Please, I Am Currently Working Temp Jobs And I Am Kinda Tired Of It Now.
I Need Something That Will Work With Me, I Am In College And I Take Most Classes On-Line, But I Still [...]
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Posted 01 October 2007
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I was in Rite Aid picking up a prescription, and noticed a bookshelf of “Dummies” books there — “Diabetes for Dummies,” etc. Among them I saw “Depression and Anxiety for Dummies.” That one struck me. If you’re actually depressed, buying a book on it and helping yourself is about the LAST thing you’ll actually do.
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 [...]
Summary: Site5 sucks. They lost all my data and took my site down until I could restore from backup.
Wednesday night my site went down. Consider it a comment on the level of service site5.com provides that this didn’t worry me too much. I knew it would be back up shortly, like it always is when [...]
…Canada, here I come.
This is, quite frankly, a little terrifying.
U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
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According to the draft, the military would be allowed to detain all “enemy [...]