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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Referral Bonus
What’s that smell? Hello Team, I would like to bring to your attention that [redacted] offers an employee referral program. If you refer a person and he/she passes the three month probationary period, a bonus of $500 will be paid … Continue reading
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Missed the mark
Time for someone to come up with browser plugins to block ads on Facebook. Besides being terribly off-target with their ad placement, it’s just annoying as hell. We want our Web 2.0 social graph sites free as in beer and … Continue reading
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Live the life of luxury, maximize your use of Unemployment Insurance / Welfare
And here I thought Wally from Dilbert was my hero? This guy‘s bucking for the position now.
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Lazy java developers (or why I hate stack traces in logs)
This is an example of a successful imap login as seen in the mailbox.log in Zimbra. (one single line, though it is appearing word-wrapped here) 2008-05-18 01:10:24,999 INFO [ImapSSLServer-2009] [name=sue@example.com;ip=1.2.3.4;] imap – user sue@example.com authenticated, mechanism=login Compare what happens with a … Continue reading
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Random Fred Quote
I met Father Joe, a Catholic priest who works with people with AIDS. This sounds cloyingly virtuous, unless you have AIDS. More on him in another column. But I thought, “A Christian who acts like one. What a concept.” I’m … Continue reading
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