20080129

29 jan 2008

been a while.

Emergency Elisp -- break glass in case, yadda yadda
Rules of Sysadmins. At $ORK, we call #8 The Friday Rule; I just wish all my cow-orkers respected it. I'd add a corrollary to rule #4: there is a better way, but you don't have the time to implement it...
Stop the presses, Joel Spolsky writes about system administration and makes sense: Five Whys
xkcd endorses Obama. Unrelatedly, yesterday's xkcd may be one of the best single-panel comics ever.
Pride and Palpitations -- semi-sad but very true
Rails is shitty
drool
God -- must love the tagline, "(like monit, only awesome)"
Words to live by: If it hurts, automate it (via jmason)