friday: a day when we try our hardest not to do any work.

If you hear me fart, it wasn't me!

ok, the best way to learn is to have an itch and scratch it with the tool you want to learn. My 1st Rails app: server inventory and control

thinkingrock died on me :(

OK, so the new server has red hat enterprise linux. I swore off red hat after the fedora fiasco; i'm not about to stop now!

uploading new groups for certification exams

Debian packagers: what's with imagemagick and the absurd number of dependencies? it's a web server, not an X11 workstation!

zombie processes are cool!

@silicongirl congrats on running!

A big server mess!

heading home

Ah, ruby and Object#send! powerful and potentially mind-damaging combination.

Weather in mexico sucks, except when it rocks, which almost never happens, which is why it sucks!

dist-upgrade from etch to lenny.

Fancy! deployment with passenger/mod_rails is quite difficult, as opposed to nightmarishly impossible with mongrel or fcgi.

Whee, in about 5 hours we'll be transported back to the plains of Narnia!

I've wasted countless hours mindlessly dictating linux commands, space by space and dash by dash, to newbies who don't want to learn :(

At starbucks, being sneaky ;)

There ya go, all you have to do is be smart about your queries. 48 times smaller, 12 times faster!

Man, what angers me is the prose in ssh-vulnkey; all written as if it was MY fault the ssh keys are messed up. Not even a "we're sorry".

Debian ssh packagers: KUDOS for the freaking mess you made with the recent vulnfix.

New book by carlos ruiz zafon! Whee!

Making an egg-n-the-basket. Not for me though!

@silicongirl kudos and congrats on today's run ;)

So, there's a cumbia version of Miami Sound Machine's "conga". How much more ridiculous and redundant can things get?

no work for me today, whee!

Is twitter failing? RoR sucks, can't scale, yadda yadda yadda! Get over it!

"a screen manager for COBOL programmers who want to develop for Microsoft Windows". Not kidding. http://tinyurl.com/6mtj8k

Two creepy-looking women came and started taking pictures of our new offices! help, abductors!

argh, twitter ate one of my updates!

welcome to stinkycube! the smell flares up when it rains

What's the point of delegating if it'd take me longer to write down the instructions than doing it myself?

Having trouble finding a Nintendo Wii? come buy it in Mexico, they're plentiful. You'll pay about US $400 for the privilege, though.

virtualization is in full swing

@silicongirl fancy pic!

Finally got WinXP to boot as a Xen dom0!

We were this close to taking in a second great dane!

@silicongirl so, you're a weekend warrior ;)

1- ingrown toenail, yowza! 2- bathing 2 large dogs : extreme sports! (Toughest was the bouvier)

Who is nerdier: the nerds who wrote a turing machine program or the ones who wrote programs to run on that turing machine?

Got a new canon sd1100 digicam. 4 years later, this compact camera kicks my old a80's ass, and was even cheaper!

Death by pozole! That would be nice!

Go speed racer! Fun movie

Wait; if twitter is down, how are we posting this? :P

Twitter is down, bleh :(

writing a turing machine program!

Oops almost turned metalslug into metalslut!

They invent a whole new term "ELASTICITY" when there's already a perfectly good word "FLEXIBILITY"; you know the first one is a buzzword!

Their mailscanner won't let the file through; hotmail can't fit it; their antivirus barfs on the http download. What am I to do? lusers!

okay, Jigdo sucks. Why the hell isn't it using the next-door, 1-gbps mirror, instead going to us.ftp.debian.org?

@silicongirl kids: metalslug, airbuster, rtype!

I suck, I installed 32-bit debian on 64-bit processors.

XEN - it works!! our first virtual machine is named metalslug

on my way home!

WHEE brand-spankin-new Dell ML110 server just came through the door!

Configuring geshi on joomla: 1 hour. Configuring geshi on drupal: 3 minutes

so Drupal is seriously impressing me

drupal: kinda overwhelming

Heading out for a pack run!

I've had bad luck with CMSs but looks like drupal might be it.

DAMN JAVA TO HELL, FINALLY managed to get the damn thing running on our existing Tomcat server.

OK so Java server apps are like Windows: they assume they have the server all to themselves and barf when this is not the case.

OKay, any app that upon *simple* installation goes and outright throws error500's is really not worth wasting my time figuring it out.

LOL; just followed the simple instructions *to the letter* and it still doesn't work. fedora-commons: what were you guys thinking?

You can *NOT* ship such hopelessly buggy software *WITHOUT* an adequate logging facility!!! ARGH!!!

How the hell do projects that develop in Java get away with shipping non-working software???

Every time I use anything java-related, I hate it a little bit more.

If you're going to be a fashion disaster, you might as well do it with wireless capabilities.

Ac failed again so I'm back on the roof checking for a leak

Somehow I thought "dirty jobs" was a tv show about Apple computer...

About to begin translating 4 days on rails to rails2.0!

My calendar is empty for the next 20 days, what a relief? Or, i have neglected to add my commitments lol

ALIENS! AIEEEE!! *chest burster*

Just caught sebas stuffing his face full of greasy tacos ;)

Smallville: jumping the shark every episode, and proud of it!

why does Slowaris have to be SO PESKY?

Whoa, some stinker just gulped down an entire bottle of mouthwash. We'll know who did it when someone is found passed out under the desk ;)

yay, a windows server just died

Best ways to thrive in Mexico: be a drug dealer, or be a politician. Sad fact: drug dealers are less morally reprehensible.

Suggestions for "kill the earth day": leapfrog-drive two cars to work!

So the pink blackberry survives another fall!

About to see ironman while having breakfast yum

so virtualbox *can* access native partitions. sweet!

They stored 3 years' worth of log files in the server, about 17GB worth. Scary part: 2/3 of that is in apache's error_log.

using debian installer's raid configurator to set up a raid1 array. Will I ruin the computer? no problem, it's a virtual machine!

Had to boot into windows so the poor thing could update its antivirus!

It actually takes me about 6 months to recover from exam week, just in time for next semester's exam week! LOL

having to manually empty the condensation water drain because, well, it doesn't drain: PRICELESS

FSCK! Citrix acquired Xensource!

top 10 things you DON'T want to see in the server room: #2 a bucket

UBUNTU 8.04 is out! as I found out after practically 2 days at the new building, moving servers and wrestling with faulty AC units.

We wouldn't have so much wasted capacity if the programming guys actually knew how to program

@silicongirl I'm more likely to be fired by my own stupid things like deleting the video server or botched evaluations ;)

Hell week is over! At least until next monday :P

I think what makes hell week so hellish is that most of the systems run on windows :(

How cynical to describe windows and iis's crappiness and need to be reset every 5 minutes as requiring "periodic rejuvenation"

66 computers booting into windows at the same time! It's like the windows fanfare chorus from hell!

acts_as_taggable_on_steroids: best damn plugin name ever! (acts_as_ferret is the runner up)

Came outside to get some fresh air and this jackass is smoking here :(

Up before 7 for the 4th day in a row! I'm really not a morning person :(

Hell week is well underway!

Getting up at an ungodly hour on a cold, rainy day: kinda sucks. A beautiful 14km trail ride on the forest: priceless!

A dirty, muddy mountain bike is a happy mountain bike!

Ok, I gave the dog a nacho and now she's drooling

Installing windows updates. What a waste of time!

Good night bananas!

Eating at the office sucks :(

Everything back to normal levels of stress instead of the ridiculous absurdity of last week's impossibleness

Picked a gray hair out of my nose!

Just beat contra 4! They sure blew up good :)

Eating boiling cheese: bad idea

Whee i managed not to break the $10000 barrier on my credit card!

At the supermarket with all 3 dogs! So fun!

I hate dst, it's already 7 pm! Where did the day go?

Back at the finish! Darling's on track for a 54-minute time!

Ok so i'm at km 5 and took 15 minutes, im fast! Just in time to see the first 10km'ers whiz by

Dst started today so lots of runners were late

A xoloscuintle is running the course!

Heading for km 4 to cheer my runner! I was given an oatmeal bar!

Road race! I'm just watching :)

Ok hell week #1 is over, 3 more to go

Have to plan and prepare an introductory ruby course in about 3 hours :(

An ant got nuked in the microwave!

Best way to end a lousy day: dogs having a plate of pozole!

All set to sleep!

So my trusty kingston minigo usb drive got mauled by a dog and then mashed flat by god knows what...but it still works!

Keeping your computer's factory stickers will NOT keep the computer new for years!

Comments found while perusing old code: "black magic", "I have no idea how this works", "this is the ugliest Ruby line i've ever written"

Coffee in the morning. Not a good idea for me!

1- killer breaks in and kills people in first room, 2- killer tries to get in our room, 3- killer gets torn to shreds by 3 large dogs >:)

Attack of the headless chickens! We're at burger king and chicken burgers have no heads do they?

Just got a new clown loach!

Somehow i hurt my right shoulder while sleeping. Yowsa!

Where do losers go on vacation? To-lose! Lol!

Windows wsus install: 3 hours and counting. Apt-cacher install: 2 minutes. What am i missing?

Groundhog-like, popping my head up from under a pile of work (ah, planning: the forgotten discipline) to greet the twitsphere. hi!

Inspecting a piece of dog shit. Yuk!

Virtualbox kicks some serious ass!

Up at 530 to take the dog outside! Yawn

Due to our dogs, people demand hazard pay to work at the house! Bleh!

Hurt my back running after the dog!

I don't want to go back to work!

Easter egg hunt was lots of fun!

Tex, 4 dogs are quite a mess!

The assassination of jesse james: artsy or just plain boring? I dozed off twice during the movie!

Starbucks! We were supposed to meet Sebas at 10 but he called and was just getting up!

Smallville: the warehouse of pain!

Evening run whee!

Defense: dogs have fangs, birds fly, antelopes have speed; squirrels only have their agreeable looks.

so zed shaw found a nice job working for... bear stearns! and the bank tanked! man, that guy has to have the worst luck ever.

Squirrel meat: high in cholesterol!

Battling a headache :(

About to have a nice fish with zucchini and other delicacies! Yay for heavy suppers!

Ate a yummy burger, also about to give birth to a food baby! *burp*

No one is born with high heels ;)

At the movies: eastern promises! I like cronemberg :P

Flash remoting is the spawn of the devil!

@silicongirl nah, just a nasty heretic atheist :P

A big, greasy churrasco! looks yum! I'd like to eat meat tomorrow just to annoy the catholics ;)

Walmart whee!

At starbucks with the girls, Bela is raising heads as usual!

No country, at long last!

Shame on me! I installed windows xp and office 2k3 today!

Bela: on a renal diet! But i bet she's the healthiest 13 year old dalmatian they've seen!

On my way to the vet with bela, she's getting some bloodwork done. No traffic thanks to the easter holidays!

On our way home! I'm in the back of the car with our 3 dogs! Whee :)

Ready for a nice sunday lunch at tex!

Just told a bad joke! Ha!

Breakfast! Yum

Sleepy time!

Ow, i just bit the inside of my own cheek :(

On an evening walk-car ride with tallulah and my darling :P

Chicharron de queso! Yum!

A bunch of crazies! Whee!

Back from a dog walk!

A week's vacation whee!

Installing virtualbox and truecrypt 5.1

The hidden message behind every present! Eau de toilette: man, you stink. Please use this, or shower, or something!

In questionnaire hell!

I finally got the freakin rakefile to work!

About to go for a run. I need it!

Why doesnt my rakefile work?!?!?

Back ay work, power's out! Whee!

Uploading questions - about a gazillion to go

Too busy to twit! Actually im about to sleep

Dirtiest jobs in IT: http://tinyurl.com/27sodd Sad fact: I've done all but 2 of them.

Upgrading servers

At starbucks with my darling! I still haven't learned the lesson about coffee in the morning :P

Finally got around to seeing juno: what a great movie. About to go for an 11pm walk with the dogs.

Reading the pubic timeline to kill time while queueing at the theatre (oops i meant public!)

At the mall!

Fractals are free software!

Dinner with my darling after nasty brother in law blew us off :P his loss actually!

Waking up from my post race nap! I'm starving!

The race: we lost :( but it was lots of fun!! :)

Already up, 630 on a sunday!

At the birdhouse!

Paradox: we ran 3 really fast laps but ended up exactly where we started :O

Look! People texting while driving! How dangerous :)

ok, admittedly simple data searching GUI in 1.5 hours. I'm finished for the week, going home

tutsi pop! great way to get a sugar rush while hacking.

Vim is forever!

Aptana RadRails - it's trying its hardest to impress me - and failing miserably

oops- 2 full weeks' worth of exams :(

just uploaded the new exams list - over 700 this semester!

Just realized, today i wrote my first unit test for ruby!

watching linus' presentation on git

mysql gui tools for linux. bleah.

@El_Chaco_Veloz no lan party, just a fancy dinner and cake!

Eatin at a fancy restaurant :)

about to go home!

@silicongirl thanks :)

i'm so old! lol!

One thing: git's ignore mechanism is SO much easier to use than SVN's, it's not even funny.

big ass reorganizing of berryunitconverter's dir - prepping to publish via git

reading up on svn branching - feels so primitive compared to what git can do.

Why the hel did they make htdocs sgid?

At the park walking the dogs

Making good use of my time while waiting for my turn to renew my driving license (at the can lol)

looking at some old systems I wrote. I'm a damn good programmer!

stealing some code ;) I wrote it in the first place, so is it stealing?

lazy day. Whee!

Just realized I've been working here for 2 years!

gitified 4 repositories; that's all the remotes I need.

AHA! the truth is out: Daylight Savings Time actually costs more than it saves: http://tinyurl.com/26u7su

Leisurlely moment: trying to catch nuts with my mouth. One landed on my forehead!

About to go for a run with dogs and darling!

Gitifying my development repositories - 4 of them if I count correctly. Git will let me have many more, much more easily.

Doing all the work i didn't do during the morning

Transferring files via usb stick based sneakernet

purposefully creating bogus branches on my repository. And git doesn't even break a sweat!

about to spend an hour on windows. Not really looking forward to it...

The wonders of mondays: I was busy all morning and yet I didn't really do anything.

Way to start the week! Some script kiddies created a bunch of spam blogs on our wordpress-mu server

Still at the funeral house

At the funeral house :(

qfca to qml in 60 lines of code!!

AH, blueboxing. Poor kid's internet from the 1990's

I like when my developing tools don't cease to amaze me. Ruby XML Builder is awesome.

Dan Simmons is torture!

Feeding the dogs after a nice afternoon walk

Had a large coffee on an empty stomach, not good!

Morning coffee at starbucks. I went running last night so no guilt ;)

as an added bonus, my repo is 150MB with git, 225 with svn.

just switched my main work repository from svn to git, now I can gitk my change history and branch like crazy" WHEE

Ruby: from a non-printing app to a printing one in 20 minutes. Even though all I'm doing is generating a txt file to be word-imported ;)

all day doing administrivia. I'd rather be programming.

um,there's a dove nest under my window

damn the torpedoes! downloading the linux kernel via git. I want to see a properly branchy project!

Whee our latest amazon.com order has shipped!

Eating yummy sandwiches after a flashlit walk in the dark park!

A bowl of perfectly popped popcorn! Yum

Just had a nice fight with Joomla! but now my site's front page layout is much cleaner: http://railsmexico.org

geshi works but is kinda sucky

trying to get geshi to work, for syntax highlihting on web pages

Kanbalam: the guys who run latin america's fastest computer can't even host a blog on their servers so they use blogger! Lol!

A/c got fixed again. I don't like the idea of a live blowtorch in the server room, but at least nothing blew up

Slept like a baby!

@silicongirl sucks to work until 6 pm, eh? :P

git is a wonderful, wonderful thing (git-svn, not so much).

importing my SVN repositories into git. I'm beginning to hate SVN; it would have been so much easier to create a git branch!

A/C unit is fscked again :(

Baking crepes!

we have a new puppy pal!

eating p-b sandwich!

A/C is back online, servers are happy again

updating dogster diary

A/C techs are here, a gas leak, also a bird nest right under the unit

Mixing dough to make crepes tomorrow :)

cataloging some videos

drink a lot, pee a lot :)

A/C unit failed and my servers are frying themselves :( already brought the backup server offline, don't want *that* one blowing up.

plenty of water to drink, and a few curses for HP and their lame hpacu for linux

Video server is back up, 1:30 hours ahead of schedule! I'm seriously impressed with backuppc

Server is restoring from backups, will be back online in 3 hours. Crisis averted! Thanks backuppc!

I JUST FREAKING ERASED THE VIDEO SERVER! *PANIC*

When i'm in the bathroom! *inkernet*

Trying to wake up, yawn, i got a case of the mondays!

I just invented a new word! "Adorkable"!

Catching up on sarah connor

Waking up from a nice nap

Updating our dog video

Walking dogs, we found the shit-o-drome!

Bkfast at giornale palmas! We seldom come here!

Lu: 58 mins, congrats!

Lu: km. C, almost here!

Lu: km. 8!

46:12: first puke at the finish!

Lu: past km 7!

Lu: past km 6

Firt dog finishes, 38:05!

Dulce maria rgz. Winner for women, 34:15. Lu is past km 5 now.

Mexicans 1-2-3 : First kenyan runner finished in 32 minutes

Jose antonio uribe: winner in 30:20! First mexican to win in 4 years.

Lu should be hitting km4 now, meanwhile the winner is expected in about 3 minutes at the finish

Lu should be past km 3 now!

Lol, madrazo's chopper just taking off from campo marte to fly him to km 7: fastest mexican alive!

Plenty of dogs on the 3km walk! Lu should be at km 2 now

3km walk is about to start: of course i'm too lazy to do even that

The race: lu should be at km 1 now

The race: they're off!

10k race is about to start! I'm not running though :(

Watching jpod while mofeta samples a new home

At a slow-food joint :P

mofeta went out for a walk: 200 meters and she's tired and ready to sleep

Uploading mofeta's pics to see if we can find her a home

Mofeta: helping a dog in distress!

Perparing the exam process. Most teachers haven't begun capturing new questions

About to turn in. I'm tired!

@silicongirl: you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon :P (october)

Mexico: 8-month summer, 2-week winter. The weather in between sucks too.

Twittering when i should be watching the eclipse!

The server still sucks, hopefully my contingency plan is pretty idiot proof

I freaking hate these servers, why did we spend 9k bucks when the damn thing can't hit 95% uptime?

Hmm. I smell a rat.

Im going to be on tv? Not such a big deal :P

looks like oracle doesn't want to sell to me

leeching blackberry development manuals

Why are servers so damn expensive?

I like it when the dogs eat all their food

going home now

ORACLE?????

catching exceptions. I prefer to rescue them.

DAMN UNIT CONVERTER IS WORKING AT LAST!

Fixing layer-8 problem

It's official, the format war is over and bluray won :)

I think java hurts my brain :( will i be able to program in ruby again?

Time to fix runtime exceptions.

at LAST i got the freaking java program to compile.

Proliant 320: US $ 9500. This piece of crap being so unstable I had to hack a watchdog to reboot when it hangs: PRICELESS.

Man, iterators in Java suck, and they suck hard.

Attack of the chapubomber!

Feeding trio of crzy dogs

2-day party at tex house

"in the face of concurrent modification, the Iterator fails quickly and cleanly". Yeah, like failure can be clean.

Java: 316 lineas, 3 dias. Ruby: 50 lineas, 1/2 hora.

acabo de decidir que Java es un lenguaje muy pendejo.

fikin hax0r scriptkiddies

Some dope is trying to sell moodle to us :P

I hate java :(

Java: here's a language that has NO intention of getting out of the way and letting you actually get work done.

Javaaa? HELLO??? what ever happened to "don't repeat yourself"?

Windows: where even Vim sucks.

Oh dear. Java hurts my brain.

I can't freaking believe Java has no hash type!

GIT (http://git.or.cz/) now that's kickass version control. Too bad I don't have any project large enough to use it :(

About to have a round with the people at Sun. Who in their right mind would still buy a Sun server?

Evil, trouble and mischief

About to see sweeney todd :P

The idiots at cinepolis are "upgrading the server" and we can't buy vip tickets for sweeney todd online. Talk about bad planning.

About to enter the carwash machine, whee

I'd already forgotten just how awful Java is.

Breakfast! Wtf is zatar?

Telmex mierda por que no funciona mi blackberry?

so the bank is borking our payroll deposits... or is it our accountant? either way he'll have a revolution in his hands soon!

rmail, tmail, move over: here comes ruby mailfactory. This package rocks!

Yipie-kay-yay! damn writers strike is OVER. Now start working on desperate housewives, heroes, csi and the office ASAP, you lazy bums.

Telmex vas y chingas a tu madre 700 varos al mes y nunca funciona el internet en mi blackberry

Im starving, happens with the flu

Odio al CAC y odio alos de posgrado

think i got the beginnings of a nasty flu :(

Walking 3 dogs: difficult but possible

About to go to sleep

going home whee

moodle installation! cheaper by the dozen!

blackberry development will have to do until apple releases the iphone sdk

Fsck, i have to reinstall the win2k3 server

working (yeah sure)

My very own subtitling studio whee!

At the hospital, our friend had a mtn bike accident and broke his wrist!

Starbux: drinking a nice vanilla latte

La frase de hoy: de sacos cafes, tengo el verde :P

Aching, my knee is acting up

Cloverfield: wow, im impressed

Cloverfield : here we go!

Watching jpod

Showering a great dane: quite a workout! The dog is shiny and clean now :P

Breakfast at tiffanys, er giornale! After a nice mountain ride!

snif.. i think it's the first time I actually appear on a website's credits!

Ahh rammstein death

request tracker fscking rocks

I hate windows, sql server, internet explorer and IIS. "melodramatic" is an understatement.

Installing Windows. I hate to do this to a computer...

VLC to the rescue, as usual. ffft!

hm. ffmpeg sux.

decode with quicktime: always use this option!

ffmpegx sucks sometimes.

Updating dogster pages

Going home for the day, a nice dog walk awaits us

A punto de echar a andar el bluetooth pand en linux :D

home! time to eat

load testing with jmeter rocks (though jmeter crashed due to the load lol)

At work, gene simmons got fired!

Cena en giornale!

Posting from my blackberry, doom is upon us!

berry now has internet access. how dangerous!

going home, back in 3!

international fun at work day is tomorrow!

i got a case of the mondays!

activating my qm license.

nasty linux infestations!

crackberry has a gmail client!

I don't want Apple to upgrade/hose my AppleTV!

I don't like musicals but the lion king is nice.

lion king : t - 2 hours!

crackberry it is!

crackberry or n95. DAMN I WANT IPHONE!

i hate telmex; just realized 80% of my twits are hateful ones!

boy... ruby rocks, zed shaw sucks!

Bricking your iPhone while trying to unlock it: priceless.

windows mingas a tu chadre jaj

no pagaria ni los 1000 varos que nos cuesta el win2k3 server.

maldito windows me purgas jaj

maldita videoteca te odio

I hate HP smart array controllers. Smart my ass!

MacBook Air: bleh!