Category Archives: Work

I’m a very emo cog.

My work day has been lately full of despair. Decades ago, I’m given to understand, some researchers at the UW did some experiments in which they ran mice regularly through mazes, shocking them for wrong turns — and then, just when the mice started getting good at it, changing the maze. They also would put […]

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Office Communications Server: Two steps forward…?

We recently “upgraded” to Office Communications Server 2007, which given that we’re mainly doing it to get the new version of the Windows Messenger chat client (now called Office Communicator) is sort of like buying a house to keep your spare keys in. It’s been a tricky upgrade, since Walt wanted to share front-end servers […]

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Referential integrity, will you have my babies?

I’ve been working on ways to filter and automatically clear up some of the huge numbers of duplicate IDs in our primary ERP. We’ve got at least 1800 of them remaining (from a high-water mark of around 2800), and it takes me at least 15 minutes to clean up each one manually. We’ll be on […]

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A week at sea…

I’m attending a “training” session for our Jenzabar ERP installation all this week at the Deming Way facility; I’ll be stuck out here until Thursday. It’s kind of weird being cut off from my actual desk like that, even though it’s perfectly possible for me to accomplish almost all my work through Remote Desktop. While […]

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Flames. Flames, on the side of my face. Heaving…

You know that scene in Clue where Madeline Kahn confesses to how much she hates Yvette? (If you don’t, you need to watch Clue. Best movie based on a board game ev-ar, with maybe the exception of My Dinner With Andre, which I hear was adapted from “Hi-Ho, Cherry-O.”) I’m starting to feel that way […]

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