Monthly Archives September 2009

Truth? What truth?

Often times you’ll hear people saying they want to hear the truth in some matter. For example when a politician is in the news for being suspect of having done something wrong, or something like that. They really don’t want to hear the truth. They want to hear something tha conforms to their own perception of [...]

Spam comments

I get loads of comments to my posts here, but they’re almost allways spam. Most of it is WoW leveling services or selling gold, shit like that (and if you don’t know what that means, all the better for you – don’t look it up, it’s not worth a single second of your time) and [...]

Agile vs. Waterfall

…no, I’m not going to compare them. Because I don’t care. They’re both crap. I just want to say I’m sick and tired of hearing arguments from supporters of both ideologies. Agile people say that “Waterfall is bad because you just define and design, and then in the end it’s not what you wanted”, while [...]

Birthdays

Happy 60th birthday, Boss!

About backups

“Backups that are not continuously tested are not backups. Threy’re just a bunch of fingers crossed.” Stolen from some forum posting somewhere, that struck me as too true. You should print that out and post it on the server room door. Now.