Weekend

Last night was the night of the quiet night at home, which was awesome. Went to bed a little early. Would have been more effective if I had set the alarm. Whoops.

Probably should be a quiet weekend as well - Dark Ages tabletop tonight and then a bit of shopping to do this weekend to get ready for the cruise. It should be nice.

Finished Rebel Stand, which was as awesome as the first book. Started up Sharpe's Triumph.

You're gonna carry that weight

No reason. Just because iTunes shuffled me through Blue and made me think of what was awesomist ending to an anime ever..

( Cowboy Bebop Ending Spoilers - DO NOT CLICK if you don't want to be spoiled )

How to Win

1. Get informed from a client that they need to switch over to a new x.509 certificate within a week's time, because theirs is expiring.
2. Get the certificate. Install on all production web servers.
3. Call up the contact at the client.
4. In one SQL statement and about a 2:35 phone call, switch over from using one x.509 certificate to verify SAML requests to another. Do so without knocking anyone out of the report and so that new logins to their report are using the new certificate in a seamless, invisible way. Also effect not one single other user of the SSO authentication architecture I've built.

The thing about IT - a lot of the time if we're being awesome, the users should know nothing about it.