Screw ’em, if they keep it up they will trivialize their job to the point that it can be done by a piece of software, and it will be – the “Gannon Bot 2008”. Most of the current crop of the White House press are on the verge of failing the Turing test.
The cats were definitely getting insistent at the end, with Sox continually hooking claws into my shirt sleeve to get attention; Ringo sitting between me and the screen while Dot provided the Greek chorus by her empty dish.
Steve, it definitely helps to work with people who have some understanding of the problems. This client does a lot of downloading which has lead to problems at various times, and it has not been easy to break the habit. The fact that he was unaware that LPT1 was the name of the parallel port demonstrates the shallow level of knowledge and the effect of “plug ‘n play”.
]]>Like Bryan, I have the potential to be easily upset, as anyone knows who reads my blog regularly. Also like Bryan, I’ve learned to moderate that tendency, because no amount of screaming, pencil-breaking, telephone-tossing, etc. … and I’ve done all of that in times past… ever really contributes to solving the technological problem at hand, and often enough it worsens any human interactions along the way.
This morning, I received an email from the CTO of my current client. The email subject was “Help!!” Fortunately, I was able to do so in a relatively short time; equally fortunately, the CTO is not only a good manager but a not-quite-retired programmer himself. I.e., he has a lot of patience. I like working for and with people like that.
]]>Yeah, I think if any wingnut came over to my web site they’d pass out with a case of the vapors. I ought to invest in a company making fainting couches for all these weak-kneed wingnuts who faint at the sight of a good ole’ fashioned four-letter obscenity… odly enough, the same good ole’ fashioned four-letter obscenities that the wingnuts themselves use when threatening to rape and kill two young women. Imagine that. Wingnuts are hypocrits. Who woulda thunk it? :-).
– Badtux the Anglo-Saxon Penguin
]]>LTP means that for three hours he has been reversing the last two letters of a one line command that took me 12 hours to find. I even gave it to him as Lima Papa Tango, the military phonetic alphabet, but he was typing it in reversed.
It happens.
]]>Three hours? You, sir, need a medal.
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