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P.S. One last thing - try not to worry about what bacula does if your
clock somehow goes wrong and decides that it is 2037. Or 1970. Or last
week. 😀
- Graham Keeling

(Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:41:42 +0000)

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The creator of DOS


"IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up."

— Tim Paterson






I was asked to Interview at #JPL once for an immediate need contract to address some infrastucture issues back in the NT 4.0 days.

The interview itself went well between me and three staff members, and at the end they gave me a quick tour of the facilities and team members I would be managing.

I figured I would be receiving a call and offer letter in the next day or two, but before I left, they led me to a room with some workstations and asked me to take a test.

I declined.

Less than a month later, two of those interviewers in the group were among the students attending a Core Technologies class I was teaching in the #MCSE program.

"When you boil the water, you really should just make the damn coffee."
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#tallship #interviews #testing #certifications You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔 #nimrods



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Testing...


Testing *testing* _testing_ **testing** __testing__ `testing` ... Tested.









Time to build another musical practice tool


It's Sunday and it's snowing big time out there. Time to build another musical practice tool. This time with https://metacpan.org/dist/Data-Dataset-ChordProgressions and friends. #perl #music

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MIDI-Perl Tabla drums


I finally found the tabla soundfont at https://gleitz.github.io/midi-js-soundfonts/ - So naturally I tried to imitate a tabla player! Here's the code: https://github.com/ology/Music/blob/master/tabla and here are the 1st couple runs, in decreasing order of schizophrenia: https://ology.net/tmp/tabla/tabla-01.mp3 & https://ology.net/tmp/tabla/tabla-02.mp3 & https://ology.net/tmp/tabla/tabla-03.mp3 - All are painfully feeble compared to real tabla payers! 😁 #music #perl


Bird's Mohawk in MIDI-Perl


Just finished up adding a bit more functionality to my MIDI bassline generator https://metacpan.org/dist/MIDI-Bassline-Walk - It isn't the best bassist by a long shot. But here is a version of Bird's https://github.com/ology/Music/blob/master/mohawk => https://ology.net/tmp/from-midi/mohawk.mp3 #perl #music

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