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Today's excuse for not updating the site Entry id: excuse-20010607
By The Famous Brett Watson
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 19:43:00 +1000

"Brett, can you make some some changes to the LDAP agent? We need it in production by tonight."

So much for testing, then. I'm at work still. I'm pleased to say this is not the usual case. Of course, these urgent, high-priority, important changes are driven by a marketing-based requirement, but you really don't want to know about my job in any more detail than that. Just go read Dilbert archives today.

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