Monthly Archive June, 2004

20th floor pls

In the office elevator yesterday morning -

Me (getting in first) to the lady: What floor maam?
Lady: 7th please
Me : *click*
Me : What floor sir?
Him : 20th please
Me : *blink* *blink*
Me : there is no 20th floor in this building. Do you mean the last one - 10th?
Him : Oh is it? […]

weenend_activities($random);

Yet another weekend, yet another upgrade scheduled at work. The difference this time was that we had an office picnic planned on saturday and a team meeting on Sunday morning (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). I was supposed to be present in both of them other than finishing the database server move.
Somehow managed to spend […]

Nostalgic linux install gone wild

Sometime in 2000, I did a linux install for a corporate client of mine in Indore. It fetched me some small amount of pocket money and loads of experience on how to configure linux email/intranet servers. Today, they pinged me on IM with some problem. In 2000, they were on dialup. Lot has changed since […]

Tuesday morning blunder

Walk into office to find out that a script which was supposed to send one email to a group of people has sent out 500+ emails in the past few hours and counting. The reality of the situation got onto me in a few milliseconds. The human error on my part was soon figured out […]

Search.msn rampage continues

Need to do something about this. msnbot faq mentions a robots.txt entry, which would block all bots (which they conveniently refer to as blocking msnbot only).

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