Things I’m looking at this morning

Finally a little extra time to catch up on blog/tech news reading.

Just saw over at Doc’s that Mike Sanders has returned to blogging. Sounds like his next blogging phase will be an interesting thing to keep up with.

Chad has an interesting story about cleaning up after the so-called expert consultants. I think everyone has gotten a bad consultant or two in their time, and I think that’s why the best way to handle consultants is to hire them to do the work, but make sure you understand, at least on a cursory level, what work they are doing.

After reading a bit about the Grammys, I have an observation, and a prediction. Some of the same people who have taken an anti-war stance will watch their sales slip and turn around and blame it on “being oppressed” because of their political leanings. As if they are being martyred for what they believe. But the truth is that their sales go down because after making some really silly and nonsensical statements, people will see that they’re supporting an idiot and stop buying their stuff. Not that I’m saying all people who hold anti-war positions are idiots, there are some very good reasons to be against the war that I can respect, but have you seen some of the quotes of these people? They have absolutely no grasp on reality.

Case in point, Sheryl Crow from the American Music Awards:

I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.”

What the hell does that have to do with the present situation? We have enemies. There are people in the world who want to kill us. Are we supposed to let them so that others don’t hate us? Is that what she actually thinks? If she and her security people were confronted by a man with a knife would she turn and say to him “I don’t want to be your enemy, I want to be your friend”? Or would her security team kick the $#%^ out of the guy? That’s a “preventative strike”. 🙂

OK no more political ramblings for today..

Similar Posts

  • I don’t want to go outside, there are scary people out there..

    Picked up from Medley, in an article about the Gator lawsuit is this quote: Terence Ross of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the news publishers’ attorney, even told me that he thinks Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics (a common tactic to boost the speed of Web surfing) are committing copyright infringement because…

  • That’s harsh!

    Scoble gets going again with a bit of a rant against MS for making HTML the default email format in Outlook. Then he tops it off in the next post with this doozy quote: Most people would be quite happy with Plain Text (and those of you who send emails with purple backgrounds shouldn’t be…

  • Life with wireless

    Yes, I did pick up the wireless card and get the wireless router working within the existing network. I’m blogging this from the bedroom right now before I hit the sack. That is very cool. Still have some odd behavior that I need to research a bit before I’ll feel 100% comfortable that everything is…

  • An update

    As a quick update to the post about Internet bottlenecks. Our networking folks spent a couple of weeks doing random traffic captures, both inside the firewall and having the ISP do it outside the firewall. Nothing really significant was found, no malware tying up bandwidth, no one streaming video all day long, nothing at all…

  • Wake up calls

    Hmm wasn’t it lovely of someone to call our house before 7AM today, and every 15 minutes thereafter, trying to send a fax through our voice line. Nothing like a good “fuck you” early on a Monday! Geek let me have a sneak peek at his subscriber-only article on the possible death of internet radio….

  • Ugh, I hate that!

    I hate it when there’s a conference room full of people, one of our folks is all ready to do a presentation using our website and suddenly, for no obvious reason, the network port in there just seems to die. Luckily I have a 100 foot Ethernet cable so I just ran the connection over…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)