Things I Learnt Last Week

Some useful things that I learnt last week:

  • My expensive Sony laptop can survive a 3 foot drop. Onto tiles. Lid first. While powered on. And writing to the hard drive.
  • It's a bad thing when someone else's server accidentally gets assigned your APC reboot port. And they want to reboot their server. And they live by the motto If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again. Especially when you are trying to demo a site for a client, with whom you have a money back reliability agreement.
  • People don't like it when you tell them you put your prices up. Even though you gave them a 2 year (!) buffer period, and it is still less than the standard. People like things for free, I guess.
  • Cars suck. Petrol, oil, time, good will, and always money. Two months income later, my car still isn't working, and is going to be rather tricky to fix. But because I now know that, I can no longer afford to get a new one.
  • CPAN module authors are amazing. They write exactly the module you need, and then make sure that there are just enough obscure bugs to make it take longer to use and fix than it would have taken you to write your own in the first place. Damn you, SQL::Statement.
  • Staff in Game don't find Wii jokes as amusing as I do.

Comments

Mark S

Heh.

Good laptop :)
Dumb datacentre staff, they need more coffee and less pr0n!
No one likes paying more, but you have to pay for quality right?
Haha, yes, no car for me - sux that it's cost so much.
Woo for fixing bugs in CPAN modules :D Communist ;)
Wii-ch jokes are Wii talking about?

How is the nose?

radiac

I must admit, I only fixed some of the bugs in the module before I tired of trying to figure out the poorly written code :p

Keep meaning to finish the entry on the Wii - should be up shortly :p

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