Category Archives: Geekery

Non-attachment

Posted on December 20, 2017 by perlgurl

The good news is I now know how to do a factory reset on my phone. The bad news is that didn’t solve the rebooting problem and it deleted everything in my calendar which deleted everything in my desktop Outlook … Continue reading →

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LYS, take 2: Day 14, Thursday, July 10

Posted on July 14, 2014 by perlgurl

Trooped today and even left work early to do it. It was for the library’s Summer Reading Program. I really need to get new armor. In other news, there still is a Death Star?

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Mantra for modern times

Posted on June 13, 2014 by perlgurl

Or how I survived the urge to correct all the stuff that I thought was wrong about another annual review: Om gam ganapataye namaha.

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shred!

Posted on May 19, 2014 by perlgurl

I read today that the process of xml parsing with SQL is called Shredding. I find that to be an appropriate term for what I’m doing. Today I worked out how to get at child elements, attributes and values when … Continue reading →

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and we’re back!

Posted on May 15, 2014 by perlgurl

Day six without my domain working. Called the registrar expecting to be very upset since I’ve made three other calls trying to get this resolved and the person I dealt with today was very, very helpful! As such, my personal … Continue reading →

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urgent care, here I come?

Posted on May 12, 2014 by perlgurl

My email has been offline for three days now. As such I had a calm and quiet weekend at home and got lots done in the garden and yard yesterday with help from my wonderful family. If only the weird … Continue reading →

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domain down

Posted on May 9, 2014 by perlgurl

After my registrar tried to charge me auto-renew my site for three years instead of the one I always do, I fought it, got reimbursed then forgot to pay my bill for the one year renewal. Silly me! Today is … Continue reading →

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Pick me!

Posted on February 4, 2014 by perlgurl

Instead of getting stuck working with narcissistic, uptight demoralizing jerks, I wish I was playing dodge ball and could pick my team.

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DEV NULL

Posted on January 28, 2014 by perlgurl

Started with 1,051 emails being deleted during the holiday break. Since then I’ve cleared out almost two thousand more! Dec 22 another 516 Jan 14 another 1027 Jan 22 another 456

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Not my people!

Posted on June 1, 2013 by perlgurl

Made the choice to go to the Comic Book Shop last night after dinner on a night where they had some kind of board gaming going on. LOTS of uber nerds were there and by that I mean the ones … Continue reading →

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