Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
CertFirst PostgreSQL Training Course - AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Okay So I attended a training course for PostgreSQL a few months ago. IT WAS AWFUL!!!!!! It is difficult for me to put into words how bad this course was. So in an attempt, I wrote up a play-by-play of the action here:
http://obstinate.org/computing/full-review-of-postgresql-certfirst-training-course/
SUMMARY
Certfirst used bait and switch tactics during the sales process, and failed to [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Communication Breakdowns
I was recently speaking with someone, specifically giving them feedback / advice on a particular topic. Now, let me be clear that the item in particular didn’t strike me as particularly sensitive. I gave my constructive feedback and the person got quite defensive about the matter, to the point where it was obvious that they [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Top Gear Season 12 - Starts November 2nd
I like love Top Gear. No really, it is very very difficult for me to describe my child-like fascination with this television show from the UK. It is truly one of the best produced TV shows in the world, that happens to be about one of the greatest topics in the world (cars) with some [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Love the Beast
The Joy, oh the Joy of things in live. But today I am talking about one of the supreme constant joys of my life. Driving, the pursuit of the drive, the drive itself, or the lack of driving. All of it, its almost like I had forgotten.
Recently when driving to work through my neighborhood, I [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Midnight in the garden of good and evil
Do you ever feel like your life is a soap opera, and you are an innocent bystander as you spun like a top? I do. I don’t like that.
I think there is a fundamental concept of free will that people don’t realise. You are not a victim of circumstance, you are what you make of [...]
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
WTF! Society is going downhill, fast
So yesterday when driving around for no particular reason (I will get to that soon). I was listening to the radio and an ad comes on that says something to the effect of “Life is too short, have an affair”. At first I thought this was a joke, this kind of blatent discard of ethics [...]