Archive for June, 2006

Steak

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Once you’ve had steak in Argentina, nothing else can compare.

Downtime

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Nothing like your server going down a couple of times to motivate you to touch up your backups.
I have automated backups running that back up all the users data (once a week currently). Unfortunately, I didn’t have backups of the configuration (stuff in /etc). Certainly, I could have done with out, but it would sure […]

Cards

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I went to Hallmark today to pick up a birthday card.
One thing I never quite understood: cards with tons of verbage already. What the hell is the point of that?
“Look honey, I love you so much that I put in the effort to buy this card that someone else wrote. See, I signed it at […]

How to Steam Rice with a Tatung Steamer

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Did you inherit a Tatung Steamer from your parents/aunt/uncle/other relative? Are you wondering how to make/steam rice with it? Did you try searching online? Didn’t find anything?
I had the same problem, until I realized I had inheritted a new one with a manual. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So here’s the relevant section (from a manual for the […]