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@merlinc: dear lord! Don't you know what God does to kittens when you work with SOAP?

ajfitzpatrick You see smokers congregating outside office buildings all the time ... but it's not every day one of them is smoking a pipe.
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: vlc is your friend.
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: Don't worry, he'll grow out of it.
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: seething isn't nothing!
ajfitzpatrick Unable to resist the urge to name the screenshot of an error in a system called CATS "what-happen.png".
ajfitzpatrick Dear Oracle: 32 letters is not unreasonable for a stored procedure name. Yours bitterly, etc.
ajfitzpatrick @kevinoneill: because anyone who gets caught in the act ends up responsible for maintaining a build system.
ajfitzpatrick The code is riddled with "paramaters". I'm thinking of changing them all to "Parramatta's" out of spite.
ajfitzpatrick Somebody has installed spyware on my machine to ensure CruiseControl builds fail within five minutes of me preparing to commit something.
ajfitzpatrick Happy.
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: these Crumpler purchases... they don't happen to coincide with new computer purchases every few months, do they?
ajfitzpatrick Bored enough to consider nitpicking about "Daylight Savings time has been adjusted by the Australian Government" in a helpdesk email.
ajfitzpatrick Damp.
ajfitzpatrick OK, so the crazy loud ranting neighbour outside was really an auctioneer. Fair enough I suppose.
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: I'm pretty sure the purpose of courier companies is to frustrate and perplex. Actually delivering packages is incidental.
ajfitzpatrick It's hard to say exactly how far the elevator dropped just now... didn't really mind walk up the last 5 flights of stairs from where it ... ...
ajfitzpatrick @mrowe: You'd be full of bluster too if you'd just released the better part of a decade's work that, after all, is nearly 750 lines of Lisp.
ajfitzpatrick The party across the road has segued effortlessly from "You're the voice" into "Khe Sanh".
ajfitzpatrick So, uh, Windows iTunes can't rip a CD and play the track it just ripped at the same time on this 2.4GHz quad core CPU? Lame.