Weekly Padgett

Shocking! Where to start

54 stories is a lot of newsstand. These are the ones I would hand you first, sorted by what you came for.

If you only read five 4 of 5 out

  1. Twenty-five years of corkscrew. All 291 damned lines.291 lines of C from 2000, still in Debian.
  2. Recording Mantoloking with Steve Fisk. Yes, in Kansas.Black Lodge, Eudora, Kansas, 2009.
  3. Billing mediation: somebody has to find the damned moneyThe job nobody outside telecom has heard of.
  4. Two sabbaticals. Yes, they're on my resume.Nineteen states by car, then Indonesia at forty.

The telecom stuff

  1. Never post twice. Yes, even when I run the damned thing twice.A ledger for a cron job that must not repeat itself.
  2. Two hundred and fifty percent. Yes, folks, it was Perl.Widening a pipe with round-robin Perl.
  3. Fourteen years at five nines. Yes, we patched them.About five minutes of downtime a year.
  4. The error queue is unfinished accounting. Go get it.Treat a reject as money.
  5. Reconciliation as a job: where's the damned file?Recovering revenue from mangled records.

Music 2 of 5 out

  1. Filipino rap: yes, the words you don't understand count tooFrancis M, Gloc-9, FlipTop.
  2. Bass player first. Yes, the notes have to STOP.Producer because somebody had to be.

Where I have been 2 of 5 out

  1. I shipped BBS doors at thirteen. Yes, actual software.THINK Pascal on a Mac BBS.
  2. NT to Linux at sixteen. Yes, I still had homework.Migrating an ISP in high school.