Random Access

Tuesday – 09 August 2011
If you’re old enough to remember that tagline, then… I don’t know. Fill in your own witticism here. For those of you for whom it does not ring a bell, it was from when NBC had a show on the air called Hill Street Blues. It was… dun dun DUNNNNN… a police procedural. As did many shows of the day, its theme song composed by Mike Post.

So far, it’s been a decent work day. Earlier, as I was working with one of our QA testers, there was some busy/”Why isn’t this working!?” time while trying to get a couple of his systems switched between a couple of networks. Part of the problem laid in the gap between “This is what we need to do for compliance” and “This is how he wanted it to work for convenience.” We came to terms. (And I didn’t even have to break out the orange hammer…)

Stray Toasters

• Stocks Suffer Sharpest Drop Since 2008
• Britain Burns: Riots Spread Through U.K. Cities
• London paralyzed by fear, shock as businesses smolder
• Black Hat: Insulin pumps can be hacked
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…?!” file:
• Michele Bachmann Supports View That Slavery Wasn’t So Bad After All
• Police urge use of holster after man shoots his own penis
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• The Apple Store at Fashion Place has an official opening date.
• Jazz’s Present Gets Its Chance at Newport
• 10 great places to eat like a local

That’s good for now.

Namaste.