new blog

I’ve added a new blog (and added it to my list on the side there) It’s for crypto stuff. I decided to separate them. Thank you, that is all.

Exercises in Futility

Admittedly it’s the most exercise I get most weeks, but not the point. So, there’s a process that runs monthly. Person A does a bunch of manual data manipulation and sends the results to person B who goes through a long detailed checklist of actions that summate as “load into database using load button” I [...]

New Section?

So, I’m thinking of starting to do some indepth crypto stuff and i’m trying to decide if I should put it all in this blog and just make it a category, or if i should fork that off into a new blog … Given teh general run when i chat with people and wax technical [...]

(Un)Help Desk (2 of 2)

Tonight I called support for the XBox. In July the console was sent in for the Ring of Death issue. It was subsequently replaced and shipped back. Great, no problems with that. But then the XBox Live Arcade games that we’d downloaded suddenly started springing issues on us.

Help(less) Desk (1 of 2)

Few days ago I called a help desk, to provide the “more information” they requested in a uspost letter. They’re request for information was in response to my sending them a letter with information in it. They were unable to identify the Reference Number (Which I had copied off their previous correspondence for just such [...]

PetsHotel — No Occupancy

So, I didn’t post about this at the time b/c it really pissed me off. Then for two weeks we were out of town on vacation (different post). We went to kiir’s cousin’s wedding and left K at camp/overnight whilst we were gone. B/c he couldn’t really just chill at the house, he could run [...]

You might be white trash when …

So, we went to a wedding (ok this is ~ a month out of date posting, whatever) The groom seems decent (military man), and the bride is a friend and cousin of kiir’s. The wedding was on her father’s farm. Now, first off, I kept expecting the man to call out for a mint julip [...]