Bummer, I forgot the itty bitty power plug that goes with my beautiful PowerBook G4’s AC Adapter. So I’m stuck on a PC today.

Atleast the PC is a dual head display w/18″ LCD and 17″ Trinitron 🙂

I still miss my Mac OSX ;(

today song of the day:

Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique V

or Fantastic Symphony V – whatever name you prefer.

Good Classical Music.

basket ball last night was awesome. My jump shot was pretty good for me. If it would have stayed with me in the later games my ego might be too big for my own good.

Then I went to bed and slept. I still didn’t want to wake up, even though I was in bed before 11. ah well… I suppose that is life.

Back to the work thing that I do.

Wish I could sleep all day. Hungry.

Good weekend, did nothing. Watched Sacremento loose, that was a bummer. Didn’t read enough. Sat around too much, slept too much. Does it get any better than that? Too bad it was cold on Sunday. Saturday was so beautiful I feel guilty for not doing anything outdoors. Ah well, there are more days left in life.

Procrastinating at work.

Have a nice day.

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They are redoing the site soon too. Its a great service for the price. You rent all the DVDs you want over the internet for a flat monthly fee. No late fees or anything like that. The catch is that you can only have 3 out at a time, but that is reasonable. The stuff comes in the mail with a prepaid return envelope. So the flat fee is all there is.

This has been a shameless promotion 🙂

Is it bad when you think you can do everything better than everyone else? I don’t really think that, it just the case with 90% of the people I’ve ever worked with. I give people benefit of doubt. I wait till they prove to me they are idiots, then I know that I am the man, and they are not. UGH

All I want is for people to do good things!

So few I would trust with important project. Do managers train to be able to manage the incompetent?

Ok, nevermind. I just wish I had a good network at work, and since I’m not in the network group, I can’t make a good network here at work. So I’m stuck using a crappy one made by pooh-pooh heads. I want FEATURES damnit!

enough – lj is a not place for me to bitch. I hate it when people bitch on lj. Of course, bitching about people bitching is still bitching isn’t it?

Ya know what? I was gonna work till 5:30, but its 5:17 and I’m leaving 🙂 hehe

I gotta go home and finish my Asimov book so I can start another.

Sorry, no song of the day today. I didn’t listen to much music at work.

Super Hot Unix tip of the day:

Under borne or korn shell this works awesome.

Ya know when you run a command and it doesn’t work purhaps because some resource is overloaded, such as an ftp site being full? This little ditty wraps it in a retry timer that will automatically stop retrying upon success. It is perfect for use with urpmi

while (! urpmi mod_auth_ldap) ; do sleep 2 ; done

urpmi will return 0 on success or nonzero on fail.. so ! inverses the result(yes this is just like C, but this is not C shell(although omission of the do keyword may cause this to work just as well in c shell).

Sleep between retries and test the while condition again. Once the while condition(the command we want to run) is met, we exit the loop!

This was damned fun. purhaps lj isn’t the best forum for such and item, but I don’t care, it was very cool and easy to come up with?

I should change my nic to shellguru 😉

Whew, hoops last night was fun. Its always good when the jump shot goes in consistently. I felt like c-web with the midrange shot that drops.

Caught up on sleep by dissing the 4th quarter of the nets game… mmm.. sleep was good. OK, I’m not actually caught up, but I got 9 hours, so that helps fight off the lack of sleep from a few days ago.

An observant reader will note that para 1 says hoops and para 2 says lack of sleep. Yes I played basketball for a couple hours on only 4 hours of sleep. It was fun.

the rock and roll was excellent, the music was perfect.

Man that picture jeremy sent of ed in drag was damned funny. He looked hot, too bad he was a he. Females are cooler than males.