Bash, sometimes you suck

So, I’m trying to pass a ! character to a shell command. Should be simple right? Not so much. twit –post ‘OMG…I’m out of coffee…work stoppage!’ bash: !’: event not found Huh? Oh yeah, in the fine tradition of crappy shells like csh, bash uses ! to re-run commands from the command history. But you’d [...]

Kanata Honda – The customer experience

I complain a lot about companies that provide poor customers service. It’s easy to do, as they’re so common, and it can be fun to read and shake your head at. I haven’t found a lot of material online about how good people can be, but it’s overflowing with complaints and rants. Human nature I [...]