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	<title>The Lair of the Cubelodyte &#187; Cubicle &amp; Campus</title>
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	<description>The dronings of yet another IT worker. Dissatisfaction is guaranteed.</description>
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		<title>Boise?</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2010/03/11/boise/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2010/03/11/boise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put a couple of MacBook Pros into production the other day for our Communications group. Shortly thereafter, the users informed me that I&#8217;d neglected to add any printers to their machines. Whoops. So this morning I traipsed over to their office to add &#8216;em. Though I had no problems correcting my oversight, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vile Stench</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/09/29/vile-stench/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/09/29/vile-stench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I work in a different building away from my usual office. That auxiliary workstation is next to a sink and refrigerator. Right now, someone is washing something evil out into the garbage disposal. Whatever it is, it&#8217;s disgusting. It smells like something died inside a crate of cabbage in August. The fetor is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transport Protocol</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/08/20/transport-protocol/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/08/20/transport-protocol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One adjective that can be fairly used to describe the unit I work for now is &#8220;mercenary&#8221;. Though we are an IT group, our boss&#8217; only-half-joking position is that it doesn&#8217;t matter what someone wants us to do, if they can scrape together the money to pay our rate, we&#8217;ll do whatever the hell they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dim Outlook</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/07/08/a-dim-outlook/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/07/08/a-dim-outlook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but it astounds me that you still have to set up an Exchange account through the Windows control panel instead of through Outlook. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s difficult, but it&#8217;s needlessly opaque, especially since users expect to go through Outlook, which is, after all, their mail application. I suppose I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Crappy Microsoft Product</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/24/another-crappy-microsoft-product/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/24/another-crappy-microsoft-product/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been clicking this goddamn doohickey since well before noon when the weather turned nice, but I&#8217;m still at my desk and my shift isn&#8217;t over. This stupid thing doesn&#8217;t work at all.
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		<title>No Foolin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/02/no-foolin/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/02/no-foolin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our office overlords recently decided to replace all our trashcans with mixed-paper recycling bins. &#8220;Mini-bins&#8221; (small, parasitic black objects that hang off the side of the blue recycling bins) are attached to them, in the event that non-recyclable objects are discarded. Mixed paper goes in the blue bin. Everything else goes in the black bin. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Times</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/31/good-times/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/31/good-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting at my desk nursing a splitting headache. To describe it in terms slighty more erudite and less visceral than &#8220;AAAGH GOD MMF OWWW&#8221;, I would say that it feels like my left frontal lobe is attempting to chew through my skull just above the eyebrow. I&#8217;ve never been so thankful for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Cultures</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/20/live-cultures/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/20/live-cultures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking down into my trashcan, staring at the bottom of an upturned yogurt container. Fifteen minutes ago, I devoured its contents with gusto, savoring every spoonful. Now I&#8217;m looking at it. I cannot turn away.
It is empty; I have ingested its semiviscous innards. Discarded, it should be of no further concern, but it speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Excuses</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/02/weak-excuses/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/02/weak-excuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fulminations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another crop of losers trying to finagle access to student accounts. I swear to God, I am mere inches away from beating someone to death with an axe handle. Seriously, I think the kids of these parents would probably be better off for it. 
We hear all sorts of bullshit reasons as to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inside Joke</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/02/12/an-inside-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/02/12/an-inside-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you will get this; most won&#8217;t. Here it is anyway.

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		<title>An Arcane Subject</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/26/arcane-subject/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/26/arcane-subject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While investigating a possible CMS issue this afternoon, I ran across the interesting course offering Humanities 013: Witches: 
&#8220;Witches: Myth and Historical Reality (4) Lecture&#8211;3 hours; extensive writing. This course examines the historical construction of the witch. The four areas covered are: European pagan religions and the spread of christianity; the &#8220;Burning&#8217; Times&#8221; in early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Fever 2009: A Sneak Preview</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/13/spring-fever-2009-a-sneak-preview/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/13/spring-fever-2009-a-sneak-preview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Random Mutations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an unseasonably balmy 68&#176; outside; the sky, scoured clean of clouds by yesterday&#8217;s winds, is a brilliant French blue. It feels like a marvelous spring day, not the middle of winter. And here I am, stuck inside a tarpaper shack, chained to a computer.
I must be feeling unusually restless, this being the second post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once More Under The Yoke</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/12/29/once-more-under-the-yoke/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/12/29/once-more-under-the-yoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a drag to have to be back in the office after nine days of blissful languor and merry feasting. Except for some cooking on Christmas Eve and leaf-raking on the 26th, I spent the entire time in blithe indolence. 
It took some serious effort to get out of bed before dawn today, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Hard-to-Get Sales Pitch</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/12/17/the-hard-to-get-sales-pitch/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/12/17/the-hard-to-get-sales-pitch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today one of my august colleagues got a phone call from a &#8220;Sarah&#8221; at EMC, asking for someone who works in a related department. Since he smelled a cold sales call, Sarah was asked if this person was expecting her call. She said he was not, and that she was simply calling to &#8220;introduce EMC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Nog Season Opener</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/17/2008-nog-season-opener/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/17/2008-nog-season-opener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Comrades! Eggnog is now available in the white office fridge. Nog season is officially open! Rejoice!
And yes, before you ask, dear office-mates, the answer to the invariable followup question is &#8220;yes&#8221;.
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		<title>A Clever Ruse</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/12/a-clever-ruse/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/12/a-clever-ruse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very glad to have Veteran&#8217;s Day off yesterday as a paid holiday, but realized, as I stumbled and fumbled ineptly through my workday, wishing I was elsewhere, that this work week effectively has two Mondays in it.
I have been tricked.
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		<title>Eerily Quiet</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/10/eerily-quiet/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/10/eerily-quiet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1:58 p.m.: Despite it being a Monday, and having to start off with a sizeable number of issues in my queue to qualify as bugs, it was a pretty good day. Some of the issues were tough to digest, but I worked through them without getting sidetracked, feeling rather pleased with my unexpected focus and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running on Cocoa</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/03/running-on-cocoa/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/03/running-on-cocoa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like half a cup of hot chocolate on a rainy November afternoon. Why only half a cup? Because I&#8217;ve just spilled the rest into my keyboard. God damn it.
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		<title>Feedback</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/23/feedback/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/23/feedback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management at the IT department here is on this big jag about &#8220;customer satisfaction&#8221;. To that end, they&#8217;ve implemented a satisfaction survey that gets sent out to users when a trouble ticket is closed. Said users then get the opportunity to fill out a simple Likert-scaled survey to which up to 4000 characters&#8217; worth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s Bugging Me</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/17/somethings-bugging-me/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/17/somethings-bugging-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my declaration to project managers and developers everywhere: not every call for change is a &#8220;feature request&#8221;. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature!&#8221; may be a venerated chestnut in the software world, but sometimes people hear it so much, they seem to start to believe it.
Yes, it may be that the application [...]]]></description>
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