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Ice cream anyone?

Ice cream anyone?

By Jan Dembowski on November 18, 2009

At work I had offered months ago to walk over to Carvel on 2nd Avenue between 24th and 23rd streets.  This was in return for the help I had gotten from the NOC.  It was turning into an on going joke and today when I was reminded about it I said “It’s not too cold, [...]

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What, you don't say hello anymore?

By Jan Dembowski on May 25, 2009

Sunday morning I had to be in New Jersey before 3 AM to work on powering up the data center there. The company tries to power down it’s data centers once a year to make sure that BCP and DR works.
I got there at 1:30 AM which was okay since we got the building back [...]

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And now my car got broken into

By Jan Dembowski on August 9, 2008

Today was an odd day. Not bad exactly, but definitely odd.
I went to work for a scheduled systems upgrade.  Lily and the kids went to Central Park and after work we met in Chinatown.  When we returned to Long Island we found my front passenger window was broken and my GPS unit stolen.
Now I didn’t [...]

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One day limo driver

By Jan Dembowski on July 15, 2008

This morning Lily was going to head to LaGuardia airport and catch a plane to Detroit. I was going to head to the office at my regular time and put in a fully productive day at the office.
The person who was going to pick her up forgot.  I ended up getting dressed in record time [...]

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DNS excitement! Panic at the office!

By Jan Dembowski on July 10, 2008

Well not really panic, just your usual vulnerability patching day at the office.
When I saw Dan Kaminsky demonstrate voice over DNS, I was convinced that he dreams in BIND source code.  It was a neat demonstration.
Now he has uncovered another vulnerability in BIND regarding UDP source port prediction. It’s causing some excitement in the work [...]

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Working on Saturday

By Jan Dembowski on June 14, 2008

It doesn’t happen to me often, but this is what it looks like when I work on a Saturday.

Non-stop being on conference calls.  It’s not bad, just I have a lot to do today.

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Looks like no Amtrak strike

By Jan Dembowski on January 18, 2008

I heard on 1010 WINS this morning that a tentative agreement between 9 unions and Amtrak was going to be announced today. That’s a relief as both Lily and I both take the LIRR to Penn Station get to work. It would have been a pain for us to get to work, likely [...]

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Chuck Prince is resigning

By Jan Dembowski on November 3, 2007

Lily subscribes to the Wall Street Journal and today there is an article online that reads “Citigroup CEO Plans to Resign As Losses Grow”.
That was not hard to see coming. The article shows that the stock price is currently at $37.73. Last year when I worked at Citigroup the conversation was if it [...]

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To the pain

By Jan Dembowski on November 2, 2007

This came up in conversation at work (today it’s applicable).
Prince Humperdinck: First things first, to the death.
Westley: No. To the pain.
Prince Humperdinck: I don’t think I’m quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I’ll explain and I’ll use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Prince Humperdinck: That [...]

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Fun work week

By Jan Dembowski on September 15, 2007

Since July 30th I work with my identical twin brother. He’s been there for many years and many people know him in the work place.
Tuesday I was on the coffee line right behind the manager of another group I know. That’s when someone stopped to say hi to the manager. In a [...]

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