[TAG] Wiring a house with ethernet

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Rick Moen wrote:

> My remedy of following the workers around with a laptop on a cart was
> designed to head that scenario off at the pass -- in accordance with my 
> motto that hearing "I'm sorry" from people is the booby prize.
> 
> Reminds me of where I was heading with the Heraclitus stuff, yesterday:  
> I may have been doomed to be a sysadmin from an early age, because I
> picked up a rather savage attitude towards people who cause sudden loss 
> to me and mine by being stupid or negligent, way back:
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=crybaby#apology
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=crybaby#goodintentions

"While evidence says that the road to Hell is paved with good 
intentions, they're probably all on first steps."

-- Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"

Utterly unrelated, but dammit, it's just too entertaining:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=misc#abecedarian

(ISTR using the word quisquilian once, in an exchange of alliteration 
with Ben).