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These days, I mostly post my tech musings on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmcgrath/
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
How to stop worrying and learn to love IT complexity
- "From time to time I find myself feeling overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of all the moving parts that make up modern IT environments. Even if your job is not specifically about fixing stuff, it is so very, very easy to lose entire days trying to get X to work with Y. Or trying to find some way to make X work on top of Y. Or trying to figure out why X works on its own but as soon as you add in Y, X magically stops working ... It is amazing we get anything done at all really." -- How to stop worrying and learn to love IT complexity
77% growth? Wow
Looks like 1040 people attended Pycon 2008 representing a 77% increase on last years attendance. over 1k people at a Python conference! Times have changed. My one and only Python conference to date was in Houston Texas 10 years ago. (10!).
There was significantly less that 1000 people at that event. I remember we pretty much all bailed out to a Sushi bar one evening, handed over a collective bunch of dollars and asked them to bring "food" . Try that with 1000+ delegates.
There was significantly less that 1000 people at that event. I remember we pretty much all bailed out to a Sushi bar one evening, handed over a collective bunch of dollars and asked them to bring "food" . Try that with 1000+ delegates.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Defining success for IT projects
- "The IT (generally) isn't the root cause of failures to change an organization. It is owever, a beautifully inert stooge that is easily allocated blame when failure comes to town" -- Defining success for IT projects
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Ubuntu 7.10 on Thinkpad X.61 - Delightoids and doldrummers
Summary : its the best personal computing setup I have ever had
wxDownload spontaneously combusts sometimes
trackerd sometimes hogs serious CPU time.
Google desktop works great. How did I live without this sort of local search?
xournal is wonderful!
Same Gnome. When in an airport, bored to tears, intensely tired, with no easy access to popable bubble-wrap and a bout of RSI, this game is a great mental chewing gum and works fine with the pen interface.
Most significant change to my browsing environment recently = Download Them All! addon to Firfox. What a great tool.
Latest lows
Latest highs
Most significant change to my browsing environment recently = Download Them All! addon to Firfox. What a great tool.
Command line near history
Following Bill
216 cd
95 ls
36 sudo
19 svn
19 mv
11 emacs
10 nautilus
8 java
8 file
5 ./yEd3_0_1_1.sh
216 cd
95 ls
36 sudo
19 svn
19 mv
11 emacs
10 nautilus
8 java
8 file
5 ./yEd3_0_1_1.sh
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