I forgot how much I enjoy what I do for a living. I'm so heads-down on stuff right now that the days are flying by. Sometimes I forget to eat. Which is cool, because I could stand to skip a few meals :)
Some random thoughts for my neglected readership:
- Why is it that Scheduled Tasks, the built-in facility in Windows 2000 and later for automating the execution of scripts, is itself unscriptable? No amount of WMI or ADSI scripting can cajole any information whatsoever from the Task Scheduler APIs. I found a perl script that can sometimes do it, but nobody really seems to know why it works on some machines and not on others. This is moronic.
- Linux is growing on me. I blame my growing knowledge of the user interface. And the discovery of Pico as a vi replacement (Pico is included with the Pine email client). With pico, I can hit an arrow key on my keyboard and the cursor actually goes that way. I'm sorry, I shouldn't need a damn manual to figure out how to make the cursor move one space to the right (in vi it's like CTRL-V or something. I don't even have the patience to look it up now, so that I can properly flame the damn thing!). The cool thing I did last night was install Snort 2.1.1 onto one of my new $179 Fry's specials... from a terminal window on my main computer. That was pretty freaking cool. I even compiled all the sources, which was fun. Even though it took forever to compile MySql (it's only an 800Mhz machine, what do you want for $179?!?!).
- Did terrorists actually manage to topple the government in Spain, or was that just a bad dream? That can only embolden the terrorists to try harder in other places where the electorate has proven less susceptable to bully tactics. The world thanks you, Spain, for the escalation in terrorism that you have just encouraged.
- Is anyone fact-checking John Kerry these days? The guy will apparently say anything if it will get him elected, though I guess that's par for the course when it comes to politicians. The latest was Kerry saying how he supported tough sanctions on Cuba when he voted for the Helms-Burton legislation 8 years ago. Problem is, if you look at the facts, you'll discover that he actually voted against it. This guy does more waffling than the local IHOP on a Sunday morning. I can't tell what the hell he'd do if he actually made it into office. I bet there would be syrup involved though.
And I'm spent.