From Jay Allen, here’s “Here It Goes Again” from “OK GO”:
(and that makes this this first YouTube video on my blog!)
Ok Go (in downloadable .flv format) or just buy it from Amazon.co.uk
Richy's Random Ramblings
Recently, we’ve made a few changes at work which, in theory, should lead to a less stressful job for myself. However, to allow these changes to get in place – I’m being even more stressed 🙁 I’ve having to keep an eye on 3 new recruits, along with doing 2 server transfers (one from a slow datacenter which has taken over 24 hours to copy over all the data – compressed!), setting up new servers, selling new servers, supporting an existing client base of around 20,000 customers, liasing with suppliers, writing a new billing system, writing a specialised ordering system, answering phone calls AND having to contend with the damn workmen outside the office window! Grr.
I hope it’s all going to be worth it!
Since I switched over from MovableType to WordPress, I installed the Search Meter plugin to find out what people were searching for – and the most popular search term is “boss” (with 10 searches so far).
Why, I’m not sure (I hope my real boss isn’t that paranoid that he’s searching for any references to himself here 🙂 ), but at least it gives me a chance to mention another site I’m involved in.
Behind The Front Line is was a user contributed site of “tales of woe from customer support personnel” and whilst I’m just hosting and running it for a friend, I’ve still made a number of contributions to it.
Previously, BTFL was running on Joomla/Mambo, but I decided on the server upgrade to switch it to a WordPress install as it feels more “suited” to WordPress. However, I had to manually copy of all the data from the Joomla database and then set up authors etc as WordPress hasn’t got a “Joomla import” option.
But feel free to have a look at Behind The Front Line and submit your own teeth-gnashing stories!
Inspired by Les’s post on the Wilhelm Scream, I decided to watch “Howard the Duck” again (the 1986 comedy “flop”) starring Lea Thompson (better known to me as Lorraine McFly from Back to the Future).
However, here’s a question for you – who was the Executive Producer of Howard the Duck? Was it:
A: Robert “Back To The Future” Zemeckis
B: George “Star Wars” Lucas
C: Leonard “WarGames” Goldberg
D: The Wachowski “Matrix” Brothers?
Ever needed to delete a lot (and I mean several thousand) files from a directory in Linux? Then you may have encountered the “Argument list too long” error message which occurs when using “rm *” on the folder. This problem occurs because the list of files exceeds the 128K buffer which the kernel uses to pass the list of files to rm .
So how to defeat this problem?
Simple, use:
find . -name "*" -print | xargs rm
or, if you just want to delete the files starting “unwantedMail”, then use:
find . -name "unwantedMail*" -print | xargs rm