Author name: Arcterex

Halloween 2007

Anyone else feeling completely apathetic about Halloween this year? I honestly couldn’t care less about it, and was considing hiding in the basement with all the lights out and pretending I wasn’t home tomorrow night. Or better, go out somewhere so I didn’t have to pretend to be home. Last year the number of kids […]

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First Day of First Week On Call

Gah. Today is my first day of a week on call for work. That means anything at the fairly large ISP (by Vancouver standards anyway, feel free to mock me if you live in Silicon Valley) goes wrong that’s customer affecting, 24/7 for the next 7 days, I’m the one with The Phone Number forwarded

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Welcome to Autumn

Based on the weather it’s been fall for a while now, so things are fairly “slump-y”. Other than moving furniture around in the office a bit, and the daily grind to and from work, over and over again, life is stunningly, boringly, normal in all respects. I’ve still got contract work that comes, gets done,

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Welcome to Autumn

Based on the weather it’s been fall for a while now, so things are fairly “slump-y”. Other than moving furniture around in the office a bit, and the daily grind to and from work, over and over again, life is stunningly, boringly, normal in all respects. I’ve still got contract work that comes, gets done,

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Adventures in EB Games

Today Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was released, and I was meeting an old buddy from high school after work in Gastown, so I figured I?d pick it up. I have been playing on the beta test, and then the public beta, and enjoying it quite a bit, so I figured that I?d support iD and

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Retro Sunday – Tech Poetry

Just for fun, a couple of poems written in the throws of tech support hell around 1997. The Lusers My Life The lusers, my life their questions so dumb. Their babbling I’d stop, if I only had a gun. My work is so sad, and never gets done. I live in a dungeon, and never

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MythTV System Rebuilt

Well, it’s 10:30pm and my morning project took about 12 hours to do, but it’s done now. It started out with “why don’t I just throw a spare hard drive into my MythTV system and install the latest version to see how well it works?” That part went fine, but as soon as I did

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