Posts on ‘March 4th, 2002’

Hypocrites are funny.
I like how they tell you how horrible of a person you are for treating them a certain way and then continue to make you feel guilty even after you explain and apologize and then apologize again. And then, after all that, they turn around and do the SAME thing to you [...]

Repairing 20GB+ of MySQL tables is not fun. Especially when the indexes are corrupted. I'm not quite sure what is going on, but I am having to repair each of them MORE THAN ONCE to get all the errors fixed. In this case, if we lose a few rows of data it's not a big [...]

I enjoy technology and I enjoy reading technical manuals. While doing so has obvious effects such as increased knowledge, an updated skill set, and a better understand of existing tools, there is one additional effect that, while I am sure I noticed it sub-consciously, I hadn't seen before now: during times like these, it numbs [...]

Sometimes silence shatters your eardrums like a stone does a thin glass window. So used to hearing the noise, they begin screaming back themselves. When the noise stops they shatter in their own resonance. Pointed shards of glass lodge themselves in the back of your mind and stab again and again every time your head [...]