Reality Out of Sync

if I do this? Oh, that’s right, it kills the mysql process and fails to restart due to selinux having an incorrect configuration. That’s what happens. It doesn’t tell you that the process failed. No, it doesn’t do that, that would make sense. I have to keep seeing these weird messages about the webserver erroring [...]

The New Year for me started out awesome. Olive, a street which a huge Chinese business population, was littered with fireworks and all kinds of people strolling about. It was just great. I went to a temple and found a corner to meditate in while listening to the chants and prayers of other Buddhists. It [...]

Happy New Year If you celebrate. Mine is on the 26th. Can’t wait for moon cake, Burma Shave

I’ve never been big on listening in on poeple’s conversations, especially since I have an iPod and pretty much ignore the rest of society on my trek from the parking lot 3 and a half blocks away to my building. I get to hear the Lamentation of ZhaoJun (one of the four beauties of China, [...]

As the week wears on I think I start to burn out a little. Not on blogging, but on the cyclical nature of some of my work. Everyone goes through it, I know that. So the question remains, Prata, how do you manage to blog at work? Imagine your grandfather, with his large laborer’s hands [...]