Beware of Leopard ⁽²⁵⁶⁾

Brian Bilbrey January 7, 2014

Pro Puppet, Second Edition, Grumble.

Well. I'm now plowing through Pro Puppet, Second Edition, in a continuing effort to be useful in integrating configuration management into my environments at work and here at home. But the publisher website doesn't have features promised by the book, the publisher website doesn't seem to accept and post the errata I've discovered, and now the Puppet Labs blog post about the book has marked my comment on their post as "Spam". Um, really? Here's the comment I tried to post to the blog: Hint 2 - ALWAYS say what file the code snippet goes into. Very frustrating. Hint 3…

Brian Bilbrey January 3, 2014

After the Fall

We ended up with about 5" of snow here. Better than those north of us... Boston, for example. Here's what things looked like after shoveling off the driveway, as I was ready to depart for work around 0730 (about an hour late): Oh, yeah. And we're due for low single digit temps tonight, huzzah! Happy Friday.

Brian Bilbrey January 2, 2014

Let it Snow!

Snowfall 1/2/14 As of noon, we were due for maybe an inch of snow, if that, according to forecast. But looking at the radar even then, it was clear that the cold line was further south than predicted. We're at about three-four inches on the deck, maybe two in the street, and I'm guessing another inch or so before it's all done. Um, yay?

Brian Bilbrey December 24, 2013

T'was the night b'fnord

That is arguably one of my favorite blooper scenes from the Carol Burnett Show. No Harvey in this one, but Vicki as Mama kicks butt. At least as much fun as Christmas, eh? Speaking of the holiday, we're having a quiet one, at home. No travel, etc. Keeping expenses way down, since we might want to get Marcia a new hip this year... Missed my post two nights ago. I was confused on Sunday - it was so bloody warm. Two nights ago it was mid-60's after Lexi's supper - shorts and t-shirt. Tonight, thirty and snow flurries. Weird. *…

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2013

From the Vaults

Look what I dug up: I think I'll take it to work, and ask the mobile dev team to port one of our iOS apps to this platform. Then I'll run away, laughing.