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[covbob]

Grey and boring here this morning. Still not a huge amount happening on the contract front - three weeks off is enough for me. I can't stand not to be working...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another grey but mild one out there

Apparently the sky will clear later on, just in time to let it get quite cold tonight

[DoctorStrangelove]

Attended the interment of my friend from down the road.

Turns out he was a Catholic, judging by the chap who did the business.

I suppose it might explain why he was interred in that part of the cemetery.

[NickFitz]

So I spent two hours or more last night, and have just spent another hour, trying to work out why my Chef cookbook was causing a segmentation fault when trying to add a database role. This included relearning how to use pry, the Ruby console-based debugger; working out how Chef/Vagrant scatters its stuff around the disk on the virtual machine; remembering how to run Chef manually from within its working directory on the VM; and then single-stepping through pg, the Postgresql gem (Ruby's term for a library), to see what was going on

Turned out the Docker container I use as a local development DB server wasn't running

All working now

Mind you, I'm not impressed with pg's approach to error handling in the situation where it can't connect to a server. I mean, a SEGV thrown up to the top level? That's pretty catastrophic for a situation where you'd expect, I dunno, something like "Error: host blah is unreachable"

[NickFitz]

Attended the interment of my friend from down the road.

Turns out he was a Catholic, judging by the chap who did the business.

I suppose it might explain why he was interred in that part of the cemetery.

RIP.

I've got my friend from round the corner's funeral next Tuesday

[DoctorStrangelove]

Must have been writ by one of my Esteemed Customers.

Error Handling is never one of their strong points.

[DoctorStrangelove]

RIP.

I've got my friend from round the corner's funeral next Tuesday

Having consulted The Fount of All Knowledge, it would appear that most of the responses required at committal are "Amen".

Which is simple enough.

The older I get, the more affecting these things seem to get.

I suspect there's a comfortable mean between the Pink Floyd based funeral of my cousin & this rather more conventional one.

I think I'll have Black Sabbath at mine.

Or iRon Butterfly.

[xoggoth]

I suspect there's a comfortable mean between the Pink Floyd based funeral of my cousin

I went to a Pink Floyd based funeral a few years ago.

[NickFitz]

Dutch smoked sausage sandwich for lunch

I couldn't eat rookworst on a frequent basis, but once in a while they really hit the spot

[xoggoth]

Delighted to read an update in the Metro:

Pope now lets people kiss his ring | Metro News

Still sounds rude!