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April, 2008
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Apr 08
Oh how I love you…
The University of Alberta and I have a love/hate relationship. I’ve spent 5 years of my life here, met many amazing people, and have generally had the time of my life. I’ve also laboured over homework assignments and hated on some of the bureaucratic nightmares that are inherent in any large organization. Sadly, all of that is now coming to a close.
In three days I will be moving down to Drumheller to take up a position as field engineer with a big gas company. I’m looking forward to it – I’ll be living in a nice A/C’ed apartment with 3 roommates, and two blocks away from the field office.
As much as I am a loner, I have a really hard time in new places when I don’t know anyone, so I’m looking to get involved with as many sports as I can during the summer – slopitch, etc. A good question would be – does Drumheller have a league for any summer sports?
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Apr 08
What are you doing with your life?
If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be?
Are you living that dream right now? If you’re not – what’s stopping you?
Don’t answer that question. Stop making excuses, and start living.
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Apr 08
I love it when the government goes hog-wild with my money
Ottawa to pay struggling pork producers $50 million to kill 150,000 pigs by fall…
The Canadian Press has an article detailing the government’s great new buyout plan for hog producers throughout Canada. Rather than letting the market work itself out, the government has decided to give $50 million of taxpayer’s money to pork producers, in exchange for producers killing and throwing away 150,000 pigs by fall.
You’ve got to be kidding me. We have a free market for a reason – pig producers are suffering because of the high Canadian dollar and over-production on their part, and pork prices have reduced so far that they can no longer make a profit. So instead of the market forcing some producers to leave the industry, reducing supply and increasing relative demand and thereby fixing this problem all on it’s own, the government has decided to: 1) waste my money to fix a nonexistent problem, and 2) waste a huge amount of perfectly good pork.
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Apr 08
Just take a deep breath…
So I wake up this morning in a fairly cheerful mood because today is my last day of class at the U of A – forever. Woot!
And then this news article has to come along and ruin it for me: http://www.boston.com/news/education/…
RICHMOND, Va. – Most families of the Virginia Tech massacre victims have agreed in principle to accept an $11 million settlement in exchange for agreeing not to sue the state.
Holy… bejeebus. So a lot of people got killed, it’s tragic, it’s terrible, everyone really wishes it didn’t happen. But since when do you get millions of dollars of my (the taxpayer’s) money because of it? It wasn’t the government’s fault in any way whatsoever. And the article mentions the government could still face the threat of additional lawsuits despite the settlement. How does this have anything to do with the government?
Individual actions have individual consequences. Lock the guy up for an eternity, put him to death if you have the death penalty – all viable options. Paying the victims’ families from the state coffers is totally unacceptable, because that’s then showing that every murder that occurs is the fault of every taxpayer in the state.
Now I realize I don’t live in the states, but unfortunately I could just as easily see that happening up here. </rant>
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Apr 08
Linus, Git, and Google
I just finished watching Linus speak at Google about Git. Not a bad talk, and he makes a really good case for why Git kicks Subversion’s ass (and why the Rails team, and myself, are switching). He is such a dick though, at least when he’s presenting. At least now I understand the internet hate-on I’ve seen regarding him in the past.
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Apr 08
Stupid (gs) Gridserver
It seems like I’ve been spending a good chunk of my time lately working around all of Mediatemple‘s ridiculous idiocentricities with regard to this “(gs) Gridserver” setup that I’m currently subscribed to.
My current problem revolves around trying to get a Git remote repository set up to store my code.
Mediatemple’s usernames they assign you for SSH access have a percent symbol in them, as in “serveradmin%blah.com@blah.com”. Apparently Git doesn’t like percent symbols in it’s configuration, because I get the error:
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
ls-remote --heads ssh://serveradmin%blah.com@blah.com/data/git/blah.git: command returned error: 1
Any help anyone? Other than springing for the move to another host or moving to Mediatemple’s “(dv) Dedicated Server” product?
