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lots of fun stuff at work

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2003.06.09

I've been doing some really fascinating stuff at work, of late. Not strictly DBA work mind you, but lots of fun.

Today I was attempting to take all of our overwrought figures on how much time it would take to handle a given number of databases, and to turn that into a number of DBA's we'd have to have on hand, and a number of supervisors to, er, supervise. I came up with an answer, in the end. I mean, I guess that's a given, but it was answer that didn't seem out of line. The boss didn't seem to stunnoched with the figures, either. And they were certainly financially sound figures - a strange sensation for someone who's spent some years working with floundering startups with no business thinking in 'em.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong