After a while of prodding Gravatar on performance I’ve concluded that it should be stable enough to yet again enable them on my weblog. If anything goes awry I will kick them off again. let us see how long it lasts. 😉
Of back-ups and screw-ups… (and how to recover)
My dear sister had asked me to please reinstall everything on her laptop as it was heavily polluted with all kinds of residual software from the era my dad used to use it. I am always more than happy to help out my little sister with that kind of stuff.
She is gone with my parents to South Africa (chasing Lions n’ stuff) so this was the perfect opportunity for me to make things right for her. I picked her laptop up the evening before the left and the CDs to reinstall it all.
Little did I suspect the calamity that was on my path.
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Fun with epitaphs
Some may recall that on my old blog at web-log.nl I had a post about making your own epitaphs. Due to recent events I was reminded of the existance of the epitaph generator which I found through humor.about.com. As a result I’ve made a few to kill the dull moments at office.
Day of the System Administrator
Aside from it being my birthday today, it is also day of the System Administrator. Today is the day that we should pay special attention to our system administrators.
This might sound ridiculous to all, but then you probably do not know who your system administrators are.
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Greetings from Rasmussen
Today I got a hold of a post card send by Michael Rasmussen, which is dated about a month ago. Seeing it is topical to write about the man who got kicked out the Tour the France, I thought I would share. 😉
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