For several reasons, as I run through and do a regular emptying out of cruft I don't need (even working in IT I realistically don't need to keep Tb2 cables around just in case, for a client, anymore), I pondered a bit on the confluence of a couple "new" trends that include minimalism and tiny houses. For those who've kept up with some of the people I follow, the disdain that many feel for "consoomers" of the next big corporate product and weird bobblehead, the need to buy yet another…
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There's an old story, apparently american indian [https://infogalactic.com/info/Two_Wolves], about everyone having two wolves inside them, one good, one evil, and the one that wins is the one you feed. It makes a good point. I've said before that the boundary between sin and normal human emotions and living is excess. letting it control you vs you managing it. Take wrath vs anger, or gluttony vs hunger. These become problems when you are obsessing over behavior, addictive or otherwise, to the p…
I was held up Friday trying to track down why, oh why, an image backup of a server that had one job, to run a fairly recent version of act, kept failing. That brought me to this post in the help forums: Installation of ACT! reproducibly destroys ability to make Image Backups due to VSS errors [https://community.act.com/t5/Act/Installation-of-ACT-reproducibly-destroys-ability-to-make-Image/td-p/326748/page/4] . Buried in the thread, after the company rep on the forum had basically said "not our p…
Over at Vox’s there was a post on whether or not “agile” development made it easier for SJW’s to infiltrate an organization [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/07/mailvox-technical-entry-point.html]. Now, I know a little programming, but will never claim to be great, and certainly don’t have project-management experience with the pro’s and cons of waterfall vs whatever. What caught my eye was this comment: > “Anyway, I still like agile, but there’s a huge tendency for people to want to say they’r…
Over at Kairos, Brian points out [http://www.brianniemeier.com/2018/07/those-who-cannot-remember-past.html] a discussion about gatekeeping, keeping SJW’s out, and how EVS/D&C/etc. are determined to keep SJW’s out but hate being called gatekeepers. I feel their pain. I hate bullshit – more even that flat out lies. This conflation is pure bullshit. An expansion of what I posted as a comment at G+: This is jailhouse / sea lawyer bullshit. The problem here is that we’re seeing a conflation of wh…