Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries for the ‘Work’ Category

Some time for a breather

Work in the accounting world is a hell of a ride this time of year.
Of course, that’s not to say that work in the accounting world isn’t a completely different ballgame anyway. We’re slammed to the max from January to mid-April, stress runs high and you tend to spend some late nights in the office.
I, [...]

I expand the word “bullshit” to five paragraphs

We’ve had an ongoing problem at work with one of the applications we use for tax forms. One of the local forms is horribly incomplete, and I called customer service to have them update the form. After getting someone who knows what they’re doing, I made them aware of the problem and this rep promised [...]

Jobs I’d like to have before I’m 30

Work can be a wonderful thing. I have my interests and I would like for those interests to be put to good use at one point or another. I don’t want to be a jack of all trades and I don’t want to be an ace of just one. As such, here is a short [...]

Ohai there

It’s been so long since I blogged last. This will be interesting.
A lot of things around me are falling apart. Common Technologies is all but gone and I’m the one tasked with making sure the hosting customers get somewhere they’re taken care of. This somewhere will probably be DreamHost for most of them. Others currently [...]

Wow, an almost-empty restaurant

I sent out an open invitation for anyone who wanted to join me at Denny’s about 45 minutes ago. So far no one has taken me up on that so I believe I will be eating on my own tonight. I will now ramble on about anything that crosses my mind.
I really need to design [...]

Doing some WordPress theming

Since I’m getting sick of us using DotNetNuke as a solve-all CMS system at work, I’m going to be playing around some. Don’t mind this blog looking like something totally different at times over the next few days.

New beginnings

So, suPHP stopped working on my server, and I couldn’t upgrade WordPress there for a while. However, fear not, for I have seen the light and found a new way to update WordPress through Subversion, and I don’t know why I didn’t do that in the first place. suPHP still does not work; I have [...]

Yet another political BS fest

I’ve never been much of a fan of the Republican Party. However, political preference aside, you can’t help but be endlessly entertained by some of the things they do. Here’s a chance we all have to poke a little fun at people in power.
At work today, we received a fax from the National Republican Congressional [...]

The birthday, the death, ANOTHER migration and upcoming changes

I’m 20 now.
Yep. You know it. And for the third year in a row, I can honestly say my birthday sucked. I had to work… it was just like any other day. At least there’s hope for 21, which as of this writing is 358 days away and is the last one to have any [...]

Nathan Seaton’s new lyrics for Webbie’s “Independent”

I love this. He wrote this up for The Independent Geek. We’re totally going to record this.
M-m-mouse is outta wack
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me man
I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T Geek, fix it fo’ me
Come to yo’ house
They wire up ya car
Tune up jobs, replace yo’ motherboard
If you ain’t got no sound, it keeps shuttin’ down
If you ain’t got [...]