vi in VisualStudio? Yeah!

It’s not religion, but it is close. My attachment to vi has only grown since I first really gave it a shot little over two years ago. Getting vi keybindings in a Java editor pushed me to finally scrap Eclipse in favor of NetBeans. At work I’m a little more heavily tied down in terms…

MLB hype generator

I’m getting daily emails from MLB reminding me that I can vote for the MLB All Stars. We’re not even 9% of the way through the season and yet I’m supposed to be voting on the best players? At least let them finish the first month before unleashing the haranguing. Familiar refrain: I love baseball.…

Regretsy is fun

It’s mean and irreverent and an earlier version of me would be mortally offended, but, man, loving the snark at Regretsy. Sample of what one can find inside: Not stealing this, just hosting on my own web server so I’m not leaching bandwidth Rest assured, the $200 “handicraft” this image is attached to deserves the…

We’re back!

Hooray. Web host reverted their auto update of my wordpress install (and subsequent hosing). Lessons learned: “Online” support is not a great way to get resolution for technical problems at $WEBHOST $WEBHOST is damn quick at triage and ticket resolution for incident reports filed via their tracking system.

Baseball trivia

I have a little quiz for you. What two things do the following have in common? Rick Ankiel Chris Carpenter Allen Craig Ivan DeJesus Carlos Quentin Andres Torres Chase Utley Arodys Vicaino Answer: They’re on the DL They’re on my roster Admittedly, I took a few of these in the rotation draft knowing full well…

Son of nutter bottled

Bottled the second nut brown ale tonight. Only two more weeks until we can drink sweet nectar of the gods again! Thinking about doing something a little different with the labels. This will probably make Jim mad but I want to personalize each brew a little more. Anyway, so far I’ve come up with this:…

Why outsourcing doesn’t work so well

Oh my! So here’s my fun, work-related rant of the day. So nearly three years ago I was tasked with solving the problem of how we could install the same application on a windows box multiple times in such a way that we could isolate customer data. In short, each customer gets its own installation…

Blowout

Truly nothing better than to come home from a crap day at work to learn that the Belgian Wit was fermenting with such vigor as to blow the top off the airlock with krauseny goodness. The fermentation room smelled like beer and the bucket lid looked like the closing shot from some circle jerk pr0n…