After a hectic work week, and giving up Friday night for a client who was upgrading I was drained. Friday was rough after clocking a 15 hour shift, I went home got about 1.5 hours of sleep when I was awoken at 3am. After another couple hours I could finally rest until about 1pm. Got up again and had to work until about 4pm on Saturday.
Saturday night, I rolled out to the Ice Garden since the Hellcats were playing. Their game didn't start until after 10pm, and I ended up working security. The game was good, but it wasn't very eventful. It was a battle for sure though, both teams fighting for victory. After 3 periods, plus a 5 minute overtime period, it was still tied 2-2. I missed the game on Friday night due to work, but I guess they tied 3-3 that night too.
After partying with the team until 6am, I was done for. I had an awesome night, met some cool people too! Nice change after the excessive work schedule. It was probably a bad idea though, since I didn't get out of bed until 5:30pm Sunday. Good timing though because I had just enough time to hit head over to Mike's for Spunday dinner. Dan cooked up an amazing Guinness beef soup.
Now it's Monday... back to the grind. This week and next are going to be trying for sure, but I'll still manage to enjoy myself.
At work, I end up spending a lot of time on servers, constantly working out of multiple directories. The directories are always the same, and sometimes cd - works for what I'm doing. However, if I am working out of three or more directories that is no longer the case, which is typical.
Today, one of my fellow nerds at the nerdery passed along two BASH functions that will make my life WAY easier. He didn't write them, and I'm not sure who did. But, just add them to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc file and your ready to go after you re-login:
mk() { eval ${1:-MKPWD}=\"`pwd`\"; }
rt() { eval cd \"\$${1:-MKPWD}\";pwd; }
When your in a directory that you want to "bookmark", just type mk like so:
~/sandbox/$ mk sandbox
Then later:
/var/www/logs/$ rt $sandbox
Since it is exported as an ENV var, you can also copy things to it, for instance:
/var/www/logs/$ tail -n 20 error_log > $sandbox/last_20.log
I found this article particularly interesting, probably because I work in the CRM Software space. Basically, this article goes on to outline the shortcomings of SalesForce.com. While I don't like bad mouthing the competition, I think that the author of this article outlines some great points. Anyways, worth a read.
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Honestly, when I read this I was not suprised. Is it illegal and in-humane to have secret terrorist prison camps where suspected terrorists can be held and tortured without a trial or access to a lawyer? Oh yah, big time, violates all kinds of laws and treaties. But, is it possible they do exist despite that? Yes, I think it's possible. I think that any government on the planet regardless of what they say or sign would do the same thing if they thought it was absolutely necessary in order to protect it's nation and it's citizens.
Terrorism is a growing problem in the world and while this wouldn't be the propper solution, I'm sure if this is something that is happening it has proved beneficial in preventing further attacks. I do hope that this is not true, since it is in-humane and it would look very bad for all countries involved.
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I never checked out MSN Virtual Earth (released Jul 26th 2005) until today. Being a huge Google fan, I always use their map service. After checking out MSN Virtual Earth I can safely say it doesn't hold a candle to Google Maps. Google Maps is hands down, far superior, period. For one, Google Maps has MUCH more recent satellite imagery, plus how come MSN's isn't in color?
See for yourself... here is MSN's aerial photo of my neighborhood... as you can see, it's not there! It is on Google Maps, in virbrant color, ahhh!