I came across some interesting links via kottke.org on the subject of tipping that explain some of the psychology behind this unusual activity. Essentially, it seems that the size of the tip is based much more on how much the customer liked the server, than the actual quality …
I was reminded this week why I love my job so much. I often complain about the hours and the pay, but when the bar fills up and everyone’s having a good time, bartending really gives me a buzz. If you intend to stick it out in hospitality and eventually …
Next week we’re changing to a new till system, Wizbang. The change is entirely in software, which will be running on our trusty all in one PCs (Senor Robot POS). I’ve only had an hour or so looking over the new POS system, and a brief look at …
Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.
First, the problem. While …
Free alternative for backing up VM's for ESX 3.5+ and ESXi.
Entire MST3K collection downloadable as torrents.
Car head deck with an iPod slot behind the face plate.
Configuring public key authentication in OpenSSH under windows. The OpenSSH readme is awful.
Tips for using rsync to synchronize folders.
Open source VPN software.
OpenSSH tutorial for XP
