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day of fckups

21-Oct-09

Sure has been one hell of day, today. Starting early to office just got me stuck in traffic for an hour. I burnt the whole day trying to get Roundup work with Apache. Then ended up deploying Bugzilla. And, bugzilla has a global numbering scheme for bug IDs. :-S Grr.. The entire drive back home, [...]

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when it works, be happy that it does.

25-Sep-09

Refactoring code that is “running” fine, is the next biggest mistake that you can do. Especially when all you require is a 100+ line modification to get that bug fixed in the dirty way. The fact that it looks extremely ugly and that it could get worse when you try to hack a patch on [...]

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its there.. not there.. there.. not there :-/

07-Sep-09

Never (ever) drop a cheque on a Saturday. Especially when that cheque is going to make your negative bank balance, positive. Coz, all through Sunday you’ll end up seeing that ‘Cheques in clearing’ notification, over and over, inspite of knowing that banks dont work on Sundays :-/
Ye.. paycheque finally. But, I aint jumping yet. Coz, [...]

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workoholism

08-Jun-09

You dont call it ‘workoholism’ when you dont have a choice do you?
I saw the dusk last evening from my desk. I ran a 8k in the middle of the night just to make sure my limbs havent ceased to function because of lack of movement. More than three liters of coffee has gone [...]

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work, compromises, etc.

09-Apr-09

Another twelve hours to pack my bags to Ooty for the hash. A well deserved break after some mad working frenzy over the past couple of weeks. But, with the deadline still looming around the corner, I am quite unsure what to do.
I dont want to miss the break. I dont want to miss the [...]

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http://xkcd.com == brilliant

22-Mar-09

In the middle of a mad work frenzy, you look up a link that a friend posts on FB coz it popped up as an email notification. Smile. Then, start clicking another.. smile more. Then another.. and another. And when your coffee became cold, you realize that you just blew an hour on it. [...]

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dumb dumb dumb

10-Mar-09

“what the heck is this thing??”
“hmm… This is in the wrong place..”
“its just a stupid copy”
“you sure its just a copy”
“oh yeah yeah.. its just not in the right place”
“if it is not in the right place, it has no right to be”
rm -rf /…/postgres-main/
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 stop
ERROR: could not find …. blah.. blah..
“HOLY SHIT”
“MOMMMMMMMMMM… save me..”

So, [...]

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Finally split ‘official’ and ‘personal’

26-Feb-09

There was this silly confusion about what ID I was using for official work and personal work respectively. Just sat down and fixed the damn thing. Had to reshuffle projects on SF.net and juggle around IDs with launchpad. But now it is set right, and I am happy :)

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