Tech Support

| September 9, 2003

I am, by profession, a customer support engineer. Not just a “Hi, how can we help you” phone answerer, but one of the guys who digs into the heart of a technical matter and finds an answer when your network falls on its butt. [I used to do this by phone; now I do it […]

Is there a Doctor in the house?

| September 6, 2003

Somehow, I managed to tear one of the muscles that hides somewhere under the latissimus dorsai. I did it by sneezing rather too forcefully. Sneezing. How embarrassing. Hurts like heck, especially when I laugh. All in all, though, if I have to suffer something in that region of the body, better a torn muscle than […]