27 Jun
2011

Passion for hardware

No, not this kind of passion you perverted fucks: I’m talking about the thing that drives us to do this work. As a sysadmin, we’re mostly invisible, and then extremely visible when things go wrong. It’s a thankless job, but someone has to do it. So I’ve been thinking about what drives me to do […]

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21 Jun
2011

Societal Rage

So i was heading up the escalator at Pasila train station here in Helsinki.. The custom here, is that if you don’t want to walk up the escalators, you stand on the right and ride it up. If you are in a rush, you take the left “lane”. Simple things, nobody gets hurt. Enter fat […]

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6 Jun
2011

I don’t like Estonia – My review of our trip to Saaremaa

Last week the company went out for a small kickback session to Saaremaa, which is an island north of the Estonian coast. “Small” is a bit of a misnomer, because we were away for three days. As with any trip with Finns, the trip involved copious amounts of alcohol and shenanigans. So a short background […]

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