Phasor Burn

Good for typing, not so good for slicing watermelons.

So there I am, filling out an account on the ups tracking site so that I can have package shipment progress emails sent to me and lo, look what appears as a choice :

Beware, the luddites and quasi-literate walk among us, zombies impersonating the living.

I just saw this on the Pilsner Urquell site :

To enter our site you must be over the legal drinking age in your country of residence. US residents under the age of 21 and Canadian residents under the age of 19 are not permitted to enter the Pilsner Urquell website. No persons under the age of 18 are permitted to enter this website.

OK bozos, since when was 19 the drinking age in Alberta? I’m not sure if there are any other provinces at 18, but for sure we are. I think, unless Uncle “prohibition” Stelmach pulled a fast one on us . . .

Server Rack 1 by Digital:Slurp on flickr.com

Very similar to what we do at work, in the 3rd floor managed space at the Telus bunker. Not so similar to what we have done in the colo space there previously, but that is a retrofit/rework/fixup in progress.

Can’t tell from this picture, but I imagine both ends of the cables are properly labelled too…

Take the time to do it right, saves a lot of frustration later with tracing unknown cables to unknown destinations etc. A rack like this will take maybe 2 days to wire and label and document correctly.

Edit: Also note the lack of cable management arms. They only serve to block airflow and cause servers to overheat!

Yes, that’s right. I clicked on the stupid google ad at the top of the ‘change-your-mood’ applet on FaceBook. Doh!

Time to see if I can get some ad blocking extensions for Safari. No, I don’t like Firefox.