Project Natal, bah: The only intuitive interface is the nipple; everything else is learned.

@pablommm No pics, sorry. Dogs wanted to eat the liver and intestines so I had to run.

Some asshole dumped two rabbit skins and matching entrails in the park. And people wonder why I'm a sociopath.

Monkey Island ! whee the 80's called, this time I feel inclined to answer.

@pablommm actually only 5 months gone (jan, feb, mar, abr, may). Half the year will be behind us on JULY 1st. :P (sorry to nitpick)

"lo puedes calentar para que se le quite lo frío" : tan cierto pero tan... equivocado

Theatres are sold out. So nope, it doesn't say "watch a movie" anywhere in the appointment book my secretary, ms. Destiny, keeps for me.

Cops pursuing a robber fall into a 80-feet-deep ravine. Robber runs away. Only in Mexico...

Today's piña colada: much better than the one I made 2 days ago.

Using the last of my few miserable hard-earned pesos to pay for the car's insurance. Irony: This will leave me with no money for gas.

This evaluation questionnaire is always messing with my mind; always different results. Am I worthy? am I made out of suck?

With this ridiculous heat, afternoon naps are becoming a necessity...

@pablommm I agree. Experience counts. Aim high! Worst case scenario, nobody calls you, then you can search for more modest positions.

Piña Colada, yummiest drink ever. Drinking a whole pitcher by myself was a big no-no, though. *tummy aches*

Wow, John Lithgow to join Dexter's cast.

hey! #WoofWednesday is the only trending tag I agree to use. Check out these pictures of the new '09 great dane model. http://bit.ly/FKzJW

The Geneva convention should cover a man's inalienable right to take a shit In peace. Bathrooms are the new neutral zone.

Kudos to the assholes who bought a VoIP PBX instead of using Asterisk. Now the company's disappeared and we're without phones.

About to spend the rest of the morning drafting documents. Blech.

Ah my DBA duties.

Trying a new domain registrar. GoDaddy.com = haven't been that bad for me but their interface is SO byzantine.

Me caga la gente que usa "@" para significar "o/a". Amig@s!!! ARGHG!!

Hey Happy Towel Day to all!

"buying food is so pointless: it all ends up as shit anyway". Now that's wisdom for you!

@pablommm y si a un perro o gato le dijeran "pareces humano"?

Ah crazy Chinese and their food. Sweet beans. I like them, though.

I just like my movies with a bit more plot to them, thank you. I did laugh a lot with Clerks, though.

I'm a huge pixar fan but I'm an even bigger star trek fan. So appropriately in this case "fuck up", and we'll watch star trek on June 5.

Fuck, "up" and star trek both open June 5 in Mexico!

I hurt my neck while sleeping; only happens to me! I'm on medication, don't want to be a cripple all week long as usual.

Rushy mountain penitentiary! yee-haw!

Ora, este edificio se zarandeó re gacho con el temblor. Todos sobrevivimos por suerte :)

Fuck, I'd be about 200% more productive if I didn't have to waste time writing reports about what I've been doing.

How to write an algorithm: "I think about how I'd solve the problem if I were a computer, then I teach the computer how to do it".

"las redes sociales son el opio del pueblo"

Testament to Firefox's success: I reported a problem on a web page and instead of telling me "we only support explorer" they're checking it!

"A rapidly tanking economy". One of my best sentences ever.

Someone had a serious bout of diarrhea. *moving to the next toilet*

ho-hum. Another castle defense game.

I'm still mad. Don't think I'll sleep too well.

The Dan Tyminski Band. Awe-some. Yee-haw!!!

Delving deep into WEBrick's bowels

Found some leftover food. Hope it's not spoiled *NOM NOM*

Actually playing Nexuiz for a few minutes helped me calm down.

My anger knows no bounds. Maybe I should turn to the dark side? nah, switching to Windows will only make me angrier. ;)

I can speak SMTP just fine; SWAKS for me is more of an assistant than an interpreter.

Hey, world. I woke up in a perfectly fine mood but you've managed to ruin it and now I'm downright furious and upset. Thanks a lot. NOT.

I just read a really stupid but cute book :)

People in affected cubes to be relocated while the plenum is fixed. Hopefully +before+ the sewage deluge.

Shit and sewage are leaking into our basement's plenum AGAIN. Just get me a lot of plastic sheets to shield my servers from the shitstorm.

"If designers are making any assumptions about your display hardware in designing a web page, they're not web designers."

Swiveling LCDs on DSLR cameras: useful or pointless? I know I loved the one on my Powershot A80 but that's a different kind of camera.

tweets are like movies: Can read them even on your phone, but are best enjoyed on the big screen.

Brown's books are like rubik's cubes: hard to put down but once finished, you realize it was just a messy arrangement of simplistic elements

"Mario Benedetti is the Dan Brown of poetry". I disliked poetry long before I heard of him, so I wouldn't know.

Is sleep a commodity or a luxury? I guess it depends on your schedule and how lazy/sleepy you are. Me, I'd sleep 12 hours/day if I could.

Fixing an iBook keyboard. Takes "the patience of a saint and skill of a surgeon". As long as I'm not in a hurry, it's actually soothing.

@pablommm por la influenza aquí pospusieron el estreno de star trek hasta el 5 de junio :( :(

I always say I'm not a goog teacher, but peer recognition always trumps self-opinion. Thanks to all who wished me happy teacher's day

OMFG! Darling and Bela the dalmatian were in a car accident! They're shaken but fortunately ok.

@roadmr grax! asesor de tesis no puedo porque no soy maestro :( pero te puedo ayudar a revisar o lo que se ofrezca

@yacaFx whats up ;) como te va con el flex?

It's cheaper to get two 20-inch screens than a single 24-inch one. Which one might be better? *pondering*.

Soy una reata para diagnosticar, eso sí. (reata, no rata)

I have to solve this problem in 1 hour. I like a good challenge.

Arreglando una bronquísima como siempre: les construí una podadora y la usan para segar CABEZAS! y ahora es mi culpa :(

No work tomorrow for me, it's teacher's day: between all the holidays and the flu alert, I haven't had a full week of work since mid-april

I hate people who talk about past events in the present (or future) tense. Learn to speak, goddamnit!

hm, so now twitter spambots are using trending topics to have their messages appear on searches.

Architecture fail: you can see people sitting in the crapper from the balcony on the floor above. Maybe it was done on purpose?

They have no idea why their product doesn't work. They use Java and IIS, so they pretty much have no idea about anything really.

Trying to get support for a product, and this guy's computer (Windows) just crashed. Like if your doctor died while giving you CPR...

WTF? where's the @ replies configuration?

Um, plucking hairs out of your nose : hurts.

I need this download to go a bit faster. Leaving the computer downloading overnight is so 33.6k.

Going to the supermarket today. Shopping for food, whee!

Can your cat do THIS? http://bit.ly/aK8ec

Drinking one of those icecream / whipped cream monstrosities they try to pass as coffee at Starbucks. It's still good, though. Yum!

Mexico to also join the digital HDTV revolution!!! We'll be 100% digital (analog transmissions cutoff date) in... wait for it... 2021. Sigh.

Invaded by cockroaches! Yuck

*donning a cybersquatter mask*. Sadly I don't own the domain in question; I'm already getting purchase offers.

OK time to mess up a couple of Moodle installations

Whee, Flash Forward, based on Robert J. Sawyer's novel, to appear next season on ABC. Downside: Brannon Braga is involved in production.

About twice as likely to write "chees" when you meant "chess" than when you meant "cheese".

"Ruby on Rails for Microsoft programmers": http://bit.ly/xCZKT. Are all MSFT programmers THAT fat? Hmm, I smell an unflattering stereotype.

Have you ever dropped a phone, ipod, PDA or other gadget in the toilet? was the toilet clean at the time?

what's a swiss army knife doing in my backpack??

I don't feel like I'm a failure ;)

heartworms are nasty.

Today's question: do hearts have eyes?ponder it, it's deeper than you think.

I have absolutely no idea how people ever manage to get any work done using Windows. BTW, Mechanize rocks.

Mexican newspaper La Jornada is now on twitter! http://twitter.com/lajornadaonline

If I were a windows user, notepad++ would be my text editor of choice. Still doesn't hold a candle to vim.

Star Trek premiere postponed in Mexico due to swine flu! NOW i'm mad! KHAAAAN! KHAAAAAAAN!!!

Just got rickrolled. Again.

damn, my back is acting up again. Yowza.

cybersquatting. What? they owe me money! I'm entitled!

Overpaid janitors: now the dean himself paid a visit. He commended our "superior disinfecting skills". Bah.

The gift of disinfection: surgical mask and latex gloves, a rag and bottle of alcohol. I'm growing weary of being a janitor.

I refuse to spoonfeed the trender with hashtags. If it's not smart enough to figure trending topics by itself, maybe it should find new job.

Awful, hot, sticky weather. And no, we don't get lush tropical vegetation or a pretty beach in return. Just scorching hell.

Who'd be crazy enough to include Beethoven's thundering 5th Symphony in a "lullaby classics" CD? 19th century version of BOOM BOOM!

Your mama is so fat, it's easier to jump her than to go around her :p

"a chimp banged her mama" - this accurately describes a character's story in Robert J. Sawyer's latest book.

Our Dalmatian thinks she's a mastodon and has taken to take up as much space as humanly (doggily?) possible.

Enfermedades: si existen rabia y cólera, por qué no hay carcajitis o mal de la risa?

Chewing gum stuck under my bed! wonder who did it... ;)

Mexico: according to authority, we're doing so well, that people who died from other causes are expected to start coming back to life soon.

All of a sudden it's politically incorrect to call it "swine flu". Everybody's now saying "A/H1N1". What a mouthful.

Found two 1-month-old kittens abandoned in a trash pile. Sometimes I think us humans deserve all the plagues that befall us.

Every time I use a PC I'm reminded of how noisy they are. bzzzz..

Best advice ever. "If you enjoy the pain, stop immediately and get help. This could be an indication of a serious psychological condition."

My back is acting up again, yowza. Still I think it's better than having swine flu.

Now the USA is the most swinefluish country on earth. While in Mexico we're so successful, that we actually went from 20 to 7 dead. Zombies!

Going dual-head in 3...2...1... WHOA!

My work PC thinks it's been up for 7 days, but it's actually been asleep since thursday.

Miracle, resurrection! number of confirmed deaths in Mexico due to swine flu lowered from 20 to 7.

I thought my iPhone's hands-free headphones were broken, but it turns out the jack was full of lint. Phew.

I used an old receipt to punch the keys at the ATM. Easier to get swine flu through hand contact!

Mexico city: now we're having power failures. Fsck the power company, this is really not helping keep people calm.

Epidemic in Mexico: if you go panic shopping but you're not actually in panic, does it count as panic shopping?

Mexico: doctor on TV says we're to blame because we don't run to the hospital at the first symptom. With 12-hour waiting times, no wonder.

Mexico City: Quake was minor, world didn't end, authorities considering swine flu general quarantine to be announced today or tomorrow.

Earthquake + swine flu epidemic in mexico city! It's the end of the world! Aah!

As long as the only thing to do is wait and tend to the sick, I think the flu situation in Mexico has become a contingency, not an emergency

Eek, a monkey face-shaped stain on the wall! What does it mean? I'm at the pet hospital, maybe it's a ghost? Eek! http://twitpic.com/405cq

OH NO, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico got out-trended by the NFL draft!

OK, so I joined the surgical mask craze, at least long enough to update my twitter pic. Would rather get influenza than die of suffocation.

How thoughtful: churches in Mexico City encouraged to hold mass outdoors due to swine flu, as people "need to pray in such difficult times".

Hmm, someone must have dried the dog with MY towel...

Great, Mexico just made news on Wikipedia's front page due to the influenza outbreak.

Mexico: el uso de cubrebocas reduce hasta en un 80% el riesgo de infección de influenza pero NO lo elimina por completo. Tome precauciones.

Mexico City: I refuse to wear a surgical mask.

Against all advice, it's business as usual in Mexico City churches. I guess they think they'll be immunized just by showing their devotion.

Mexico city. As I walk the nearly deserted streets I notice what few people are out wearing surgical masks. Straight out of the movies.

Some are claiming they'd known about the epidemic for weeks now. If so, how lame of them not to alert before, but to gloat afterwards.

Try to talk out of your ass. It's next to impossible. So how come so many people can do it so easily?? :)

The appropriate movie to watch right now would be "Outbreak". Don't have it, so "wrath of Khan" will have to suffice.

For a moment there I thought it read "mothership rewards"

Classes and work suspended at the university due to the #influenza epidemic in Mexico city. So no work for me today!

Gee, I don't know why I don't use Exposé a lot more on my Mac.

IRC rocks too much.

Damn! was the rubyonrails.org domain hijacked or hacked into?

A priest and a government official caught as part of a child pornography ring in Mexico.

How nice to be able to say "their fault, not mine". How sad that, despite it being their fault, I'm the one who has to solve the problem.

Difference between emo and punk is, punks are angry and emos are sad ;(

"Welcome to the modem configuration Lizard. I'll help you sssssset up your modemssss."

How about doing a global search & replace in Windows so that every application containing the word "wizard" says "lizard" instead?

DEBUGGER ATTACKING, run for your lives! .. oh, wait, it says "attaching". Never mind, then.

I find myself programming in Java again. What a nightmare.

Murphy's law: I get interrupted within 3 minutes of starting to listen to music. But if I have no music, nobody comes. No music it is, then.

I hate people who are unable to follow simple directions.

i hate it when the hotshots at the Rails mailing list gloat about going to RailsConf. *My* code was in a presentation last year, take that.

I'm taking things really easy today. Got a shitload of things to do!

@El_Chaco_Veloz sale nuevo iphone en junio. Esperen al menos hasta entonces :p

@El_Chaco_Veloz bold, la curve es vieja como matusalén jajaj

About to see know1ng. Directed by alex proyas, I'm a fan so that clinched it.

Thick skin fail. I feel guilty even when someone gets mad at Someone else :(

Hell week is behind us and I'm slowly returning to operating condition. Back from hell, so to speak.

I don't know how to use CVS, and you know what? it feels GOOD. CVS is so last century.

Headbutted by a Labrador retriever whee

Hell week has been more hellish than usual. Luckily the end of the tunnel is near. Light? No, I'd rather it remained dark so I can sleep.

@silicongirl humane mouse trap #2: http://www.smithsax.btinternet.co.uk/products.htm

@silicongirl humane mouse trap #1: http://tinyurl.com/bvkvvg

String multiplication rocks!

I'm supposed to make database backups every 2 hours. I've done TWO backups in 4 days. Backups MUST be automated; humans are unreliable.

Now that Obama is in Mexico, why don't we extradite Calderón to the USA? a president swap, so to speak.

Irony: I don't feel like tweeting anything right now.

You're exactly as tall as you need to be. If shorter your legs wouldn't reach the ground; if taller, you'd be walking on your knees. :P

Just found this atrocity in an HTML file: </>. WTF???

Woke up an hour late. Sucked because I was late for work, but the extra hour of sleep really helped me.

Canon Rebel T1i or Nikon 5000D? Doesn't really matter, neither is for sale yet and I can't afford them anyway %)

Grown to hate PHP Nuke and Joomla.

Industrializing academic evaluation. I predict 2800 failed students by week's end

How to make hell week even more interesting: add a Labrador retriever to the mix. Hell week starts tomorrow.

Counting humans and dogs, for the time being we're a six-pack LOL

I know it's not technically heat exhaustion, but a) I'm exhausted and b) it's because of the heat

@El_Chaco_Veloz $3500 pesos de tenencia. Que envidia me das :P

ok, time to make crêpes. Ingredients for the batter are straightforward but it needs to rest for at least an hour before cooking.

Petrified socks are gross.

Mexican TV: when broadcasting 16:9 HD, you need to fix the aspect ratio. Else everyone looks squatter than they are. LOL, assholes.

Avocado-flavored burps! yuckster!

ROFL, Major League Baseball dumps microsoft's silverlight for adobe flash. Will work wonders for silverlight, can't disappear soon enough.

It is during holidays such as Easter week that one realizes Mexico city was designed to work fine with 40% of its current population.

At tattoo parlor. I'm a sadist, though, not a masochist. I'll just be watching... And laughing evilly >:)

If you slice & dice fresh potatoes for french fries, make sure to freeze them about an hour prior to frying them. They fry better that way.

An iPhone game that recommends rebooting the phone prior to playing. Hello, I think windows mobile is THAT way, thank you.

I hate waking up early. And Thanks to daylight savings time, even when I'm up early, I'm still late.

Uploading pictures of other people to your public photostream without asking permission: is it rude or is it ok?

Denormalization is like abortion: awful but makes life easier

@davidmytton sure, would be glad to try it. I have several servers to monitor (unknowing, innocent victims).

Plucking hairs from my beard. Yowza.

Deep fried, dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets! Yum! http://twitpic.com/2s5w9

If you hated the Lauren Microsoft commercial as much as I did, you gotta see this http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1228.html

Windows Vista: wonder if Microsoft delibrately made it suck so we would rush out and buy Windows Seven.

LOL; I'm wearing mismatched socks. Luckily they're *almost* the same color...

Remember: "obsolete" doesn't mean "useless".

My brain is starting to rot... I'm calling directories "folders" and talking about "homologated" IP addresses.

Exam supervision training to start in 10 minutes.

Testing monitoring systems for our vacation week. Yanked the plug on the server, shit should start raining in 3...2...1...

Wish I was already on holiday!!!

Status icons are worthless if I have to search for a description on the internet. Not self-explanatory, might as well use a text label.

I need new socks, the ones I'm wearing today are suit for a hobo.

I'd love for Microsoft's development tools to disappear. Then, many mediocre programmers would need new jobs. Would be better for all of us.

A few isopropyl-soaked cotton pads later, my Macbook is shining like new. Save for the nasty crack in the front with scotch tape. LOL.

Windows auto-reinstall feature: if OSes were people, this alone would make Windows the one with the lowest self-esteem.

Windows: so fragile, that a way to reinstall it when it gets too messed up by pressing F11 on bootup is considered a feature.

How they charge thousands of dollars for this crappy, outdated, fragile piece of software with no tech support is beyond me.

A piece of paper is on your desk for 6 months because: a) you don't need it but you never clean, b) you always clean and decide you need it

Ah, Hell Week, how I hate thee? let me count the ways. Starting with the 5 days I have to work from 6:30 AM to 10 PM.

I have classrooms with 57 seats. So WHY THE HELL do they let 74 people sign up for a single classroom? Only explanation is they can't count.

Help, my agile development process is getting bogged down by the tons of paperwork required to request and specify changes.

Counting pins on a scsi connector.

Joy! Wikipedia has killed Microsoft Encarta!

Working under the suspicion of saboteurs within our group is just too nasty.

Does face recognition technology work with dogs?

I have forty emails in my quarantine folder. Quantity win.

Encased In carbonite! Sighted in Mexico city http://twitpic.com/2kt6m

Stuffing my face full of totopos. Breakfast fail.

A testament to the sad state of mexican television is the fact that foreign series on DVD are a big hit and sold even at the supermarket.

Best unit test ever: class EnterpriseTest, def test_should_boldly_go. http://mocha.rubyforge.org/examples/mocha.html

Hint: don't answer a question in a forum with something like "no, I don't know, but someone else might". Redundancy win.

Sometimes taking a couple steps back and looking at the problem can yield a better solution. The one I coded 2 days ago was a nasty hack.

Watching some programmers working as of late, I've noticed their biggest talent seems to be a Ph.D in cut & paste. Can barely follow them.

Always turn your head or cover your mouth when sneezing. *wiping snot off screen*

@El_Chaco_Veloz igual, además ahora está fsckeando una unidad de 4.5 TB asi que mas bien es "fsckkkkkkkk!"

Silly me: no user named "rooot".

So we arrived at the Time Bar and asked the bartender to serve us two Forevers...

A Canadian omen just appeared inside an Italian "fortune cookie". Surrealism win.

Python just makes my brain hurt. Lisp dialects, on the other hand, turn me into a stark raving mad lunatic incapable of coherent thought.

I'm still experiencing a bit of audiophobia from yesterday.

Platinum is cool.

a Ulysse Nardin cellphone! me wants! (it's actually terribly pimpy): http://bit.ly/VuNQI

At nube siete, pure joy at a fancy restaurant ;)

Urban behemoth :p http://twitpic.com/2fh24

Yeah, clobbering the CLASSPATH might have the unintended side effect of classes not being found... sigh. And he's the teacher...

Honestly Twitter.. only because it's 140 characters doesn't mean it wasn't hard to write. Stop losing my twits oK?

Twitter, WTF? eating my tweets again¿?¿

A video tribute to the bat launched into space with Discovery last week (latched to the outside of the tank). http://bit.ly/13oXLC

Son las 5:11 de la tarde. Hora de empezar a trabajar.

How sad! Microsoft ACTUALLY registered "hotamil.com". Sucks when your domain name is that prone to typos :)

@El_Chaco_Veloz que maravilla, aquí la gente se salía a media película porque no le entendían jajaaj

Server is not down: I'm an idiot and was trying to log into the wrong IP address.

@El_Chaco_Veloz cuanto tiempo duraron antes de salirse??

A remote server is down. Hope I don't have to drive down there to fix it. Way to start the week...

Bebo & Cigala: really not that bad, but family insists on looping the same record endlessly. By now I can't stand the duo.

Ah the crisis: security guards at the mall used to have segways, now they have roller blades...

Hopeless: Watchmen got replaced in most theatres by "una pelicula de huevos", . No wonder Mexico's film industry is in shambles.

At god-damn mother-fucking shit-eating filth-adoring maggot-fraternizing stench-emanating last I got the simulator to run.

Software that tells you a "critical" or "serious" error has occurred makes me laugh. Like we care about how big a mistake you made.

How about a new reality series entitled "Idiots with power". Episode 1: Steve Ballmer, Episode 2: Vicente Fox

My BerryUnitConverter got reviewed by a Blackberry site and now I'm getting a deluge of requests and mails. It's good!

Twitter just ate all my twits from the last 18 hours.

seeing an .exe on an URL always makes me cringe.

WTF, Twitter is losing tweets today. I've already seen three disappear.

I despise companies which think having a "24-hour support service" via MSN Messenger is professional.

tweetie ate one of my tweets!

At university archive, an anachronism http://twitpic.com/28vrr

@silicongirl it's a true story.

Saddest bumper sticker ever: "my other car is a Mercedes, I left it home because I don't want to be kidnapped today".

Seeing if Stanza allows me to 100% replace my trusty Palm with the iPhone. I only use the palm twice a year now; might be about to stop.

@El_Chaco_Veloz erase = "erase una vez un usuario"?

Working around proprietary software's limitations with a bit of PHP and black magic.

A bat was resting on Discovery and hung on for dear life as the shuttle blasted off. Space bats?

Mexico to "apply commercial sanctions" against the US who forbade access to mexican truckers. Don't know whether to laugh or be worried.

Seen in Mexico City's Metrobus: "measures for gender equality: women-exclusive cars". Equality fail.

Heavily armed policemen in our park. What happened? Don't know, don't care: we left and went elsewhere. Very distrustful of Mexican police.

I'm no designer, but with time I've become pretty adept at CSS tweaking.

Found a Ray Conniff LP on the street today. 20 years ago it might have been valuable; today it's just surreal.

my computer died, I'm now running the process on the big-ass 8GB server. It's already at 72% memory usage and climbing...

closing all hatches, about to run a process that will eat up all my computer's memory. Don't want Firefox hogging it.

WTF Friday the 13th for the second month on a row?

I hate it when users ask for "user-friendly" software. Software is not your friend! it's a tool! you wouldn't befriend a hammer would you?

Big-ass data processing automatio project just fell on my lap. I've got my plate full until November at least!

1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. 1 trilobyte = 3 bytes¿?¿? WTF?

Lol, drug cartel leader Chapo Guzmán just made Forbes' list of the world's richest men. I wonder if I'm in the wrong business.

Hell week is fast approaching! one month to go!

Bear problems at home? Call 1-800-BEARS-R-US

Almost done paying for my 42" LCD TV!

What am I doing? mindless drone work. That's what.

You know something's seriously wrong with your development process when filling out the *request* formats is a disaster and a nightmare.

Microsoft Word is, and always has been, a disgrace. I miss WordPerfect...

I've loathed Internet Explorer since version 3. I'm not about to stop with IE8. Firefox 3.x, whee!

Sometimes ideas about how to solve a problem the right way come after you've solved it the wrong way and amazed yourself at your own mess.

Vim: d/(some-string-to-search) is saving my life and a lot of time.

Juar juar me la mataste dos a uno :) lero lero

Don't know why I hated TMail so much. It's pretty useful actually.

PostgreSQL "LIKE" is case sensitive. WTF?

I remember the old times when we didn't close <li>, <p>, <td> or <tr>, and we had to show a warning to browsers that didn't support tables.

Non-automated process: 2 hours. Automated process: 2 minutes. Fire all the bureaucrats, hire all the programmers, problem solved.

Tip: never put curse words on your source code. Especially not if it's under source control.

What happens when you put bureaucrats in charge of a computer facility? they turn everything into paperwork to hide their tech ineptitude.

Conundrum: Everybody says that us developers should write more documentation. But then THEY DON'T FREAKING READ IT!! what gives?

I can finish by Thursday IF I'm allowed to work on the project rather than spending all my time in minutiae.

I had 1000 1/3-letter-size sheets of paper. I just ran out. They lasted me 2 years, though...

@silicongirl it's only work if they force you to do it ;)

Coworkers never understand negative logic (the ! operator). They'd flip if they saw how I use Ruby's "unless". Basic boolean logic anyone?

Vim: like a hot knife cutting through the butter of my functional tests.

These guys teaching databases didn't even know how to use the access systems for PGSQL and MySQL! Glad they didn't teach *me*.

Bela will be under the knife today. Keep your fingers crossed for her!

Of course the server won't respond: it's turned off. And no, we're not setting it up on your desk, like it used to be. That's retarded.

ok, the inline_attachment gem rocks.

I'm weary of giving root password to a user. At least it's a virtual server so if it gets hosed, it's no big deal.

I'll never understand the world's fascination with Tomcat. Or with Java, for that matter.

Argh, cube neighbors are listening to Ricardo Arjona and I can't stand it. Brandemburg concertos to the rescue.

I gave them TWO MONTHS to prepare topic files. Deadline is next monday and most people are just today installing the program. wtf.

I told them not to try the procedure themselves because it was pretty arcane. They went and tried and now all the files are fucked. Sigh...

oh, yes. Black magic in bash: mkdir {one,two}/{sub1,sub2,sub3}.

And, BackupPC saves the day once again. Wish it was easier to back up Windows computers with rsync, though.

Strangely, now that I don't have to put up with Flash on web sites, I hate it even more.

I hate writing official letters. Too bad I'm so good at it!

So far the theme for today has been "unnecessary violence". And it's only 9:30 AM.

Oops..forgot to add quotas to users.

The flash blocker plugin is like the glasses who reveal zombies disguised as normal people.

Man of many hats, part 2: Today I'm a textfile splicer, backup man and unit test writer.

"You can throw shit at me, but remember: shit can fly both ways."

OK, I've had it with Fink. I'm switching to MacPorts. rdiff-backup here I come!! Woohoo!

Wish my father-in-law-to-be was as careful with his cat as he is with his money :(

I forgot: monday afternoons are spent in preparation for tuesday's meeting: metawork. Nothing gets really done...

And the winner is ... explainPMT. So far... Agilefant, TinyPM and Mingle were all too complicated or slow (Mingle, i'm looking at you)

Agilefant vs. TinyPM. Any thoughts?

My desk seems unusually uncluttered this morning. Also, someone gave me a floppy disk. WTF? My computers no longer have floppy drives!

Adrien Brody totally looks like Juan Luis Guerra

http://twitpic.com/1mxew - A generation's hopes and dreams, at Mexico's UNAM

Lamborghini Gallardo sighted in Mexico City. What the hell is wrong with this country?

How does Zed Shaw know when someone twits about him? Nice new blog, BTW; the black background didn't agree with my tired eyes.

Mexico. I asked you to surprise me with more displays of violence, rudeness and contempt by my fellow citizens. You didn't disappoint. Sigh.

How to detect a worthless product: instead of "cost" or "price", they list the amount of money you have to pay as "investment".

Ah, Palm. How are you going to market webOS in spanish-speaking countries? (¡está de webOS!)

@El_Chaco_Veloz No tomen un crucero a Cancún, ya hasta ahí están matando gente :-o

@silicongirl Don't mess with Jurassic FM! it's the 80's baby! (J/K)

Why the f.. did I get reported for having a harmless dog sleeping in my cube and nobody says a thing about this screaming baby someone has?

"Stanford bank. For english press 1. For spanish press 2. For withdrawals, press your buttocks really hard, we're out of cash".

- "How can you read?" - "My mother taught me". Best TV script line. EVER.

I dig how Chrome opens new tabs next to the one where you clicked the link. Firefox sends them to the end. Sucks when you have 25 tabs open

I'm still skeptical. Doing a manual check of the application. At least, automated integration tests tell me that everything SHOULD be ok

OK, iTunes, you win: I'm updating the iPhone to 2.2.1 just to get you to stop nagging me. BTW, where is the push notification service?

So, the database teacher who even wrote a book about Postgres doesn't know how to backup his databases! what the fsck :(

um. Integration testing for an application. Will use to rewrite some business logic. Sucks having to run the tests manually!

Damn weather! 80F all day and now it's going to rain!

WHAT? Twitter MAINTENANCE??? the world is about to end!!!

Windows 7, huh? so once again the year number software versioning scheme fails miserably. Wonder how long before they bring it back again.

I want my, I want my, I want my analog tv signal back!

Fact: most people don't even know what the "address bar" is. So asking them to check if they typed correctly there is moot and confusing.

I've got a truckload of work to do. Luckily most of it involves programming, so it's ok.

http://twitpic.com/1h766 - Yummy plate of homemade sushi! Enjoy!

Silverlight: out of all the technologies already out there, which one did Microsoft choose to copy? *Flash*. Give me a break.

Just discovered Rails named scopes, about a year behind the times. Ought to be ashamed of myself. They kik ass, though.

ok, the teacher's union just sent a heart-shaped cookie for valentine's. That's weird, I'm not even in the union :)

back from fancy restaurant! I liked it! I liked the company better, though ;)

Wah, internet explorer ruined my pretty forms ;(

I don't understand why nobody else understands the "remote database server" concept. They keep asking for shell accounts on the DB server...

OK, now I'm mad: Internet Explorer. wants "gray" instead of "grey" but also wants "lightgrey" instead of "lightgray"? WTF?

And then explorer gets all righteous on me: so "gray" is a valid color but "grey" isn't? give me a break, every other browser understands it

"display:table not supported by IE". No comment.

@silicongirl speaking in tongues?

@El_Chaco_Veloz mas tiempo para ahorrar para ese bonito LCD full HD ;)

@El_Chaco_Veloz no prorrogaron el cambio a DTV hasta Junio? :-o

Cats: itty bitty killing machines!

My boss has been missing in action for 3 days, that means a bit more time to finish late projects, but also other projects getting stuck...

Honestly, when was the last time you clicked on a form's RESET button? and when was the last time you did so because you meant to? grr.

How they dared to call this masterpiece the "unfinished symphony" is beyond me. Actually, I know the story, but it's still baffling.

It's been ages since I last used tables for page layout. Didn't miss them, though.

Whee, today's meeting was cancelled, so I got 1 more hour to work.

UTF-8: dragging them kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Just discovered F12 in Vim's Project plugin. Pure bliss.

I wish CPAN installer would just install what I asked for, instead of wandering aimlessly installing god-knows-what. Stupid walking dots.

OK, 2 hours to do the initial deployment. It's all Fedora's fault actually.

"there are always little edge cases that slip through the cracks". WTF? if they always happen, they're not "edge cases"!

Capistrano: suspiciously like rake. I like vlad's approach better.

Time to capify this project.

Great dane almost gave me a black eye today. Instead it's just an scratched and swollen eyelid. Is what I get for disinfecting her paw wound

The detector says I'm a cylon, my secret is out!

Working on a saturday. Sucks to be me, I'd rather be walking the dogs.

phusion passenger has me quite impressed. It deals with the crappy Fedora just fine.

I dislike black webpages.

a nasty painful cut on one finger + a long, sharp fingernail in the finger next to it = extreme pain. Yowza.

Haven't been to a gopher server in like 15 years.

@El_Chaco_Veloz Fail. Como juguete mejor un NDS o PSP :)

mark of a true sociopath: I don't like the gas station I went to today because they're friendly and have good service.

@El_Chaco_Veloz espera a la Palm Pre o un iPod touch. el iphone - buen ipod, buen browser, buenos juegos, no tan buen teléfono.

Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon Batleth Sword: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html

I wouldn't be a sociopath if people didn't suck so much!

Hey, new buttons on gmail!

Mailbox of doom took a slice off my finger. Typing is hard with a finger out of commision! at least my Hello Kitty band-aid is cute.

new version of fieldrunners!

Argh, death by tamales!

"we need to talk, I think we can enhance your proposal's value". Way to start the (short) week with some PHB bulshit.

Football sucks. I've known it for years. The SuperBowl's commercials being more interesting than the game proves me right.

Eating fried grasshoppers ;) yum

3-day weekend whee!

@El_Chaco_Veloz Dios me libre! no, MySQL y PosgreSQL. El SQL Server lo tenemos en su jaulita, lejos de todo mundo, ni lo anunciamos.

I'm the de facto DBA here. God help them!

Pondering whether to throw away 2 months of beginner-level PHP work and redo the whole project with Rails.

Ywargh, rubyforge is down :(

Being part of a team of true geeks, instead of a herd of drones who can't program their way out of wet paper bag. That's what I really miss.

Actually, the term "Wintendo" is derisive for Nintendo. Leave my Wii alone!

Running around preparing and delivering documents. Waste of my skills. Then again, I make US $9.00 an hour...

@El_Chaco_Veloz Ah recuerdo haber descifrado el archivo de datos de esa cosa a punta de editor hexadecimal :)

Manuals for this software are written in Powerpoint?? WTF???

This finance simulator reminds me of VGA planets and trade wars 2000... 15-year old games better than this $10000 business simulator

@silicongirl morning darling ;)

Whee, got my first user-submitted patch for BerryUnitConverter!

hmm, autotest doesn't run new migrations.

OK, Test-driven development. Write the test first, see it fail, then write code to make it pass. Easy!

Reynholm Industries is a secret competitor to Massive Dynamic?

Awww super-cute baby-bear!

"Using static .html documents instead of painful .php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage." Ah, the pain of PHP. *chuckles*

Metropolis: we might think it's an art movie but in reality it's just the "star wars" of the 1920's

OK, so you name your project "Tiny-something" and it's written in Java? Oxymoron, anyone?

Just squashed two bugs in my blackberry unit converter. I'm the king of the world!

How something as brittle as Java ended up in mobile phones is beyond me.

Just heard an economist talking about "this year's 4th semester". No wonder they got us in this mess.

http://twitpic.com/178ww - A smiley tlacoyo (typical Mexican food)

Dog bath weekend. The most challenging is the 100-pound, long-haired bouvier des Flanders. Is quite docile, luckily

WTF no dr. Pepper? Ok, lemon jarrito it is...