Wendi IM’d me this cute little link this morning. It’s clearly satirical, but cleverly done. Enjoy.
Advice For The Young Bride
Author: Karel Kerezman
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Probably not the key to a truly happy marriage.
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It’s Friday. It’s Five, somewhere in the world.
I can see a time, far in the future, when I’m able to do several Friday Fives in a row. It will probably happen two days before the universe collapses in on itself, though.
- Where were you born? – Ketchikan, Alaska. I don’t remember the place because our family left when I as only three months old. My earliest reliable memories are of New York City.
- If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don’t live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? – I don’t. I don’t. Er, I don’t. (Three questions? Does that make this the Friday Seven?)
- Where in the world do you feel the safest? – At home, of course.
- Do you feel you are well-traveled? – That’s an interesting question. Is the implication that I’ve been traveled, or that I have traveled? (Hmm, must get mind out of gutter.) No, I have never left the country, nor have I seen very much of These United States. I’d like to, though, on both counts.
- Where is the most interesting place you’ve been? – I’ve been a few places of mild interest to myself, but I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere of wide, general interest. I apologize for being so boring. *grin*
- Where were you born? – Ketchikan, Alaska. I don’t remember the place because our family left when I as only three months old. My earliest reliable memories are of New York City.
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Why I’m not in customer service, Exhibit A
friend: I’m working on the overnight team at Target. Unload the truck, stock shelves, all that fun stuff.
me: Well, it gets you away from Joe Average Customer, at least.
me: (I hate dealing with The Public. Gah.)
friend: Indeed. I would end up killing all the customers, or “guests” as Target likes to call them.
me: “guests” har har… I love corporate euphemisms.
friend: lol, yep
friend: I can’t help but laugh when the dayside people come in and start saying, “We need to get ready for the guests!”
me: “Lay out the mines, the mortars and the gun enclosures! Make sure to string the barbed wire across the entrances AND exits!”
friend: lol
me: Hmm, I don’t think I have the right attitude to work the dayside shift at Target, ya think? -
Snap! goes the Snap! Server
I woke up a bit earlier than usual today, got out the door earlier than usual, and as I was getting off the bus on the way to work my pager went off.
The Quantum Snap! Server crashed, hard. This means no network storage for the entire building. As I write this, it’s still rebuilding its RAID array, after which I’ll let people back onto the system. A helpful technician at Quantum walked me through gathering a few reports that I then emailed for analysis; hopefully I’ll get back from them some sort of procedure by which I can prevent this from happening again.
Not, mind you, that I’m holding my breath. Computers are evil. If you’ve been at this for as long as I have and don’t yet know this, you need to get into another line of work.
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Another example of why I don’t trust Microsoft.
And now we bring you an overview of what Microsoft’s “Palladium” nonsense is all about. Read on, follow the links, and learn to cast a jaundiced eye upon this so-called security initiative.
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Random Work Tidbits
So I haven’t updated in a day or so. I’ve really only been doing boring work things such as preparing to move a bunch of Promotions folk from office to office, directing my intern in the removal and rewiring of the server-room bench, hopping-to on a bunch of tedious file permissions issues on the server, checking activity logs on a half-dozen or so servers, answering email questions and just generally trying to stay on top of the “situation.”
It’s not exciting. When you get right down to it, excitement is the last thing you want in this job. If it’s exciting, something’s usually gone awry.