kasia in a nutshell

Catching up on my blog reading.. so doing an 'everything' entry ala Jeremy.

Database refactoring
Awesome.. via Mike.

Jan..
is coming to New York. Don't fall into a tourist trap, Jan.. forget Central Park and the former world trade center site.. go see some real New York.. Lots of good stuff in the village and brooklyn.

Steve..
Update your bloody weblog..

Sys-admins
From The Fuzzy Blog an entry about sys-admins and what makes them professional.

"They don't make you feel stupid".. well.. Sometimes that's not easy. Good example from my days as a sysadmins (yes, I crossed over to the darkside and am a programmer now but used to be one of the legions of hard-working, hard-playing, stupid-joke-cracking sysadmins).

A user once came to me claiming his monitor broke.. "how?" "nothing displays" "did you change anything?" "no, didn't touch anything, I swear!". Okay, see, this is where you can make a user feel stupid with impunity, because he just broke rule #1 "you fiddle with something, you say what you did and save the poor sysadmin countless hours of trying to figure out what the heck happened.". Of course he changed something.. he set the resolution to 1600x1200.. with a 15" monitor that won't work very well.

Chicks dig...
Mark says that they dig OSX.

My t-shirt disagrees. It says that chicks dig unix. Then again, maybe it's just an all-encompassing category..

Today, this chick digs cold medication *cough*.