Posts Tagged ‘rant’

Remote Backup Fail and How to Silently Copy Files

Today I called my firms desktop support to talk to them about how to get Iron Mountain Connected Backup to archive files located somewhere other than [C:\Documents and Settings\user\] and through talking with my desktop support guy I discovered that it doesn’t support that. Oh, and by the way it’s a “desktop backup” so it’s [...]

Using Amazon EC2 to Thwart Crappy Internal IT Services

The alternative title of this blog post is “How to get your sorry ass fired by violating your internal IT policies.” So keep that in mind as you read this.
I say lots of silly crap. Twitter allows me the pleasure of sharing this blather with the world. I was a little surprised that of all [...]

Copulas in the News

I don’t want this blog to become an echo chamber of the same crap they blog about over at Revolutions Blog, but they pointed out a really good article from Wired magazine on the topic of the Gaussian Copula and its roll in the current market meltdown. I was pretty impressed that the author, Felix [...]

OMG, WTF?! BBQ!!11!1

It blows my mind that organizations choose names and acronyms that have alternative, non-flattering meaning. I understand this when there is language translation involved. No one at Ford knew that Nova sounds just like “no go” in Spanish. I mean, it’s Ford, they were educated in Detroit public schools. They don’t speak Mexican. But take [...]

Annoying Security Paper Tiger – Staples.com

Today I have a couple I want to print for reading later and I want to print them duplex so the stack of crap would be smaller. I need to go to Staples (the office supply store) later so I thought I would just use their online printing tool to print the document at their [...]