Tag Archives: humour

Too Fscking Clever

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Michael Fleming

If you have six discrete crontabs for a relatively small set of tasks instead of two (or even just one) you may be Too Fscking Clever. If your SQL statement has five or more JOINS in it, you may be … Continue reading →

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A Koan

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Michael Fleming

A novice once came to a systems software roshi seeking wisdom: “I am troubled. My project has become large and I am having trouble reproducing the environment across test servers. I have all my sources and I’ve installed them from … Continue reading →

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Conan The Comedian?

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Michael Fleming

This makes me want to go and get a copy of the Conan The Barbarian DVD, just for the commentary. I don’t know if Ahnuld is stoned or just taking the piss, but I know that it’s a hell of … Continue reading →

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Yeah, He Did.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Barry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch. (pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)

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Three little pre-Christmas requests.

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Michael Fleming

Dear Lazyweb, I’ve set up icecast as an  IPV6-only experiment (the result of a half-drunken challenge from Mr Steven Lisson Esq.) and am streaming some Ogg Vorbis tracks off it with EZstream. Winamp and Totem Player (Linux/Gnome) work fine. Banshee … Continue reading →

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.bullshit

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Michael Fleming

Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there – look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or the Church Of … Continue reading →

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Accidental internet-speak meets old pop-culture reference.

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Michael Fleming

ROLF (n); rolling on the floor laughing, while holding/playing a wobbleboard (for the non-Aussie / Pom readers, or you youngsters who don’t get the above reference, it refers to this man See what I mean on YouTube (not a rickroll, … Continue reading →

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Rant in One Thousand Words.

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Michael Fleming

  Enough said.

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Quote of the Day…

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Michael Fleming

From the comments on a TIME item regarding Jesus Christ’s “may-or-may not have been true or allegory” ressurrection  (via Metafilter) “I’ve already advised the Discovery Channel that if they air this I will cancel my subscription….they should be lucky that … Continue reading →

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Onions and satire and nutjobs, oh my!

Posted on July 11, 2006 by web

Oh. My. $DEITY. I’ve been using the Internet now for nigh on 12 years (so I’m still a newbie in the Grand Scheme Of Things) but this has got to be one of the most unintentionally funny things I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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