A geek and a father tries to empty out the mess that is his brain. Watch your step - it’s messy in here…
Kids and safety. It’s a never-ending conundrum.
We need to keep our kids safe because…well…they’re our KIDS, right?
But I would venture to say that no two sets of parents have the same version of what “safe” means. I know I’ve witnessed every variation between keeping the children in a virtual bubble to letting them run utterly [...]
How’s that for a working title?
Do I even need to write anything else?
Well I’m going to anyway.
Let’s start with what a bureaucracy is shall we?
bu·reau·cra·cy
Pronunciation: byu-’rä-kr&-sE, by&-, by&r-’ä-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: French bureaucratie, from bureau + -cratie -cracy
1 a : a body of nonelective government officials b : an administrative policy-making group
2 : government characterized by specialization of [...]
I have re-written this damned thing four times now. It’s kinda silly. Of all the things to struggle with, I would have put hot chicks nowhere near the land of difficulty.
And yet, here I am. Trying again.
I was away on vacation for awhile. I’m hoping that cleared my head and makes what I say sound [...]
I love movies.
Well – I used to love movies. Nowadays I generally like movies. I love the occasional movie. But most of them are the same drivel over and over again. I have irritated the snot out of my wife more than once by telling her how the entire movie is going to roll out [...]
(image© Jenny Rollo)
Helpdesks are, by their very nature, more apt for failure than success. We can try to blame management (that’s always my personal favorite target). We can try to blame the products (that’s usually what takes most of the blame from the customers). We can even try to blame the customers (that’s [...]
I know, this is not a new topic.
This has been visited, revisited, discussed, argued, and talked completely to death. The horse is dead and beaten, ground into dog food, and spread out as fertilizer over the back yard. Ears are ringing. Throats are dry.
And yet…
The infections continue.
Of course, at least half the blame goes to [...]
Well, I still have several white-papers to write for work. Most of it is pretty friggin’ boring. But if I spend the time writing it, I might as well post it somewhere. Lord only knows when the sales and marketing guys will actually do their newsletters or whatever the hell they have me writing these [...]
This is my first official white paper.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve written tons of dissertations before. But they were different. They were for specific audiences, about specific subjects. Some were training docs, others were explanations, arguments, predictions, postmortems, etc. Now that I write it out like that, I guess they were really all white [...]
Yup.
Here I am again.
Babysitting a server install/upgrade/migration.
This ain’t fun.
Not even a little.
It’s moments like this that make me question my choice of careers.
Thank God it pays good.
Well – not for tonight in specific – I’m on salary.
But I earned it I guess.
It’s felt like I’ve been milking it like a sonofabitch lately. With the whole [...]
It’s true.
They are coming.
I know I sound funny every time I say that.
I try to explain it to my fellow geeks – but most look at me like I’m a whackadoodle.
Or they giggle and give each other that “there goes Tom again” look.
I’m not sure if it’s denial or what.
I find it hard to believe [...]