Daily Archives: January 4, 2007

Another damn failure on my colo box

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Yesterday I had a panic attack – suddenly a certain repository of binary files was empty where it had been nearly 300Gb a few hours previously. I knew that Vicki was uploading some stuff to it today using an “ncftpput” … Continue reading →

Posted in Geekery, Rant | 4 Comments

Some professors get all the breaks

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Psychology researcher studies air quality in Irish pubs around the world. I can just see that grant application process “Hello, NSERC? I want money to spend the year at Irish pubs. Why? Umm, ah, to… study… air quality. That’s right, … Continue reading →

Posted in Revelation | 2 Comments

Are you a pilot who blogs, or a blogger who flies?

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I got an email today from “IFR Pilot” (who also signs off as Darrell) cc’ed to a bunch of other pilot-bloggers proposing that we all have a fly-in and get to know each other. After a few massively cc’ed exchanges … Continue reading →

Posted in Flying, Revelation | 4 Comments