Story Behind the Song
I put this together as a holiday gift to my office colleagues (being a Headhunter, aka Technical Recruiter for my current "day job").
Recorded with MIDI and Band-In-A-Box (thanks, Peter Gannon!...)
Digital audio recorded on NT workstation with SAWPro.
Lyrics
Have a Technical Christmas!
Well, have a Technical Christmas,
. from our e-home to you.
We all have Technical Christmas,
. it's on the home page too.
The Christmas tree is on the LAN,
. next year it joins the WAN.
and when weve Ho-Ho'd em
. from our cable modem,
a Technical Christmas to you.
This year we put our tree of lights
. up on the new Webcam.
We'll know when Santa leaves the gifts,
. or just watch our kitty, Sam.
The video is captured to
. a hard drive in the back.
We added it to one of 10
. computers in the rack.
The 12-year old was cracking all
. the passwords in my bag
to check out gifts from Amazon
. with his name on the tag.
He covered signs of entry with
. electric reindeer tracks,
but left a message on the screen
. saying 'You've had multiple hacks!'
Well, have a Technical Christmas,
. from our e-home to you.
We all have Technical Christmas,
. it's on the home page too.
My shopping list is on the Palm,
. the backup's still to do.
The sound card we install
. is subject to recall,
a Technical Christmas to you.
The server runs on LINUX,
. the printers through Novell.
The apps are under Win NT,
. they all wish you Nowell!
We just installed a router,
. and helped your Cisco stock.
Tonight while you assemble bikes,
. I'll try to over-clock.
The house is all on timers,
. controlled from in VB.
The DLL's theyre run on
. were coded up in C.
The java in the kitchen
. is Maxwell House, not SUN.
but while the data's perking,
. we'll have some SQL fun.
Well, have a Technical Christmas,
. from our e-home to you.
We all have Technical Christmas,
. it's on the home page too.
Just got my new domain address,
. a new host coming through.
Don't need sweet confection,
. just IP connection,
a Technical Christmas to you.
I just put up the firewall,
. and safe it ought to keep us
from 9 year olds and foreign lands,
. where folks would crack and BLEEP us.
The master driver for all this
. is not that elf St. Nick,
Its scripted up in Perl,
. hacked to trigger with right-click.
Our site is up in XML,
. with SQL in behind.
It's all Cascading Style Sheets,
. that's best for us, we find.
We found a scrolling JavaScript
. to animate the greetings
and added in a WAV we made,
. that sounds like reindeer bleatings.
Well, have a Technical Christmas,
. from our e-home to you.
We all have Technical Christmas,
. it's on the home page too.
The new sites just been FTP'd,
. the URL gets through.
and when weve Ho-Ho'd em
. from our cable modem,
the laughing is hearty
. at our virtual party,
the gift I got Hector
. is a pocket protector!
a Technical Christmas to you!
©2000 by Marc Apfelstadt, all rights reserved
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