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I know I am miles behind on this one but I saw it for the first time last night and it blew me away (no pun intended)
What a talent that lad has.
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The Jersey Devil
Bruce Springsteen performs Seeds at Giants Stadium
【ファミマ】アイス・コーヒー
１５００ｍｌ
３４４円。
気がついたらストックが無かったので
ファミマオリジナルのを初めて買った。
緊急の際はいつもセブンイレブンオリジナルのを買ってるんだけど
正直セブンイレブンのはあまりよろしくない。
ほのかな甘みが良い甘みじゃないんだよねー
その点ファミマのこれはおいしい。
高いのが気になるが
１５００ｍｌなので良しということにする。
ちなみに好きなコーヒーブランドは
ネスカフェです。
エヴァが好きでもUCCじゃありません。
KEYなんかもう俺には合いません。
KEYのガムシロップってなんか変な味するんだよなー
アイスコーヒーがうまいんですよ。
ホットだとだめだしミルクが入ってもだめ。
なのに昨今のコンビニや自販機といったら
なかなかおいてないんだよな。
コカ・コーラのアイス珈琲は
味は普通だが、量がちょっち多くて１２０円なのでまぁ許容範囲。
休日の池袋GIGOでMJするときのお供です。
ちなみに１番好きな缶コーヒーは
ボスのアイスコーヒー【地中海ブレンド】です。
これがなかなかおいていない。青色のやつ。
仕事帰りのアドアーズでMJするときのお供です。
ボスの自由空間とかいうやつも実は侮れない
ただし、こいつとのエンカウント率の低さは異常。
こいつらアイスコーヒートリオがコンビニで売ってないほんとに。
ほんと何考えてんの？
仕方ないので朝食のお供はWANDAのモーニングショットです。
とりあえず、スタバとかのカフェのアイスコーヒーは
語れるほど飲んでないので自重しますー
Oh, were you using that server?
From 2001 to 2003, I worked as the local IT admin and jack-of-all-trades for a branch of a collection services company in California. It was fun in that I got to do a lot of stuff that a larger organization would have compartmentalized, but it was also difficult in that I had no one to back me up when I needed to make an argument. The boss happened to not only behave like the "pointy-haired boss" in Dilbert, but he actually had pointy hair -- a coincidence that often manifested itself when he showed both his lack of IT knowledge and his poor management decisions.
When I first took the job, the network consisted of a hodgepodge of equipment run on cat3 and coax. By "hodgepodge," I mean we had ancient reel-to-reel tape drives and an old mainframe running data "platters" that I had never heard of until then, and the user environment was old orange-screen terminals.
When the day came to upgrade to a new network, I got tasked with the project and spent a couple of weekends pulling Cat5 through suspended ceilings and conduits, and I got to install a textbook server to replace the old mainframe. I did much of the grunt work myself and planned very carefully, and I was thrilled to see I had quite a bit of money left over in my budget. I went through the appropriate channels and bought an extra server to use as a mirrored server for fault tolerance.
In the course of a few months, the mirrored server setup prevented costly interruptions to service several times -- and I was pleased with myself for my foresight.
Then I went on vacation.
While I was on vacation, the IT guys from the main office flew out to take my "extra" server to their office to reimage and use as an additional Exchange server. My manager accepted their explanation that I was wasting company resources with this "extra server" and let them abscond with a very much needed piece of equipment.
That Saturday my pager went off. I called in to find out that the network was down and 400 collection agents were idling away their time because of the outage. I apologized to my wife and drive the 450 miles back to the office to find out that my backup server was gone. After an hour, the lone server was back up and running from a backup tape that was several days old. My boss demanded to know why the server failed -- and I demanded to know where was my backup server.
He admitted that he let the HQ guys take it, then I reminded him that he gave away a $30,000 server that our office had been charged for and that it was not an "extra" server but part of our fault-tolerance system.
To his point of view, my mirrored server was an "extra" because he never saw the system failing. In retrospect, I suppose I should have put just one server online at the start to illustrate to him why a backup was important. Seeing the reasons on paper sometimes aren't as effective as seeing the reason in action.
We never got the server back, so what ended up happening was that an additional server was bought for around $10,000. Then the company went bankrupt later that year, ending my worries about the whole scenario when I helped lock the doors for the last time on Oct. 30, 2003.
via infoworld.com
oh that is just epic
Can we buy everything?
I was interviewing my six-year old, Samhita on the question "Can we buy everything?" , sitting in a Store's Cafeteria.
I made her talk about her views on money, banks, work etc.,
-Vasu
lovehate: Glitzy Corporate Portals - Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
Sitting in a workshop to expound upon the new rollout of a client platform that will become the "new face" of employee interaction over the next few years, I am, at once, grateful and wary. I'm grateful that corporations are realizing the importance of Web2.0 and social networking apps to engage employees and encourage use of technology. I am hesitant and wary at the proclivity of employees to mesh their social networking activities with their employee activities.
The ability of an employer to camoflague their portal software to make it more user-friendly may enhance ease of use and familiarity with the work systems, but when I social network at home my interactions are far more "loose" than they would be on a work system. The informality of Twitter with its tinyurls and profile updates via bookmarklet applets allow us to perform a free association of text/image/video sharing that maybe completely appropriate and expected with my friends, followers, and even the world in general, but this same content could violate Standard Operating Procedure or Corporate License Agreements and lead to a disciplining of employees who decide to treat work relationships and non-work relationships in the same way.
I get it, if companies can make your buy into their intranet as a social network, perhaps you will feel better about your work and work from home. And if you log in from home, you can be tracked. Your work from home becomes data, and the data leads to expectation.
Allow me to clarify some of the background bias I'm entering this discussion with. By profession I'm a high school teacher. The school IS a social network and yet teachers are asked to use technology to communicate with the same children they see every day, in meaningful ways, at home. Teachers are also being encouraged to communicate with parents in similar ways. Imagine, however, that the flippant insignificance that you can brush off with a smiley in an email to a friend is misconstrued with a student or parent. Imagine my new "social network" includes a top list of "friends" that include three of my students, but excludes all others. You are starting to see the dangers of adapting social networking to professional networking.
I am also a teacher in a province where the expectation of the profession includes being a teacher 24/7. There is no end of the day bell that stops my responsibility to not only protect children (which is admirable) but also includes not stretching any social or legal taboos. And I get that the responsibility of any adult should be to protect children, but we've had teachers disciplined for not stepping in to stop a fight between students off school grounds on a weekend, when the teacher DOES NOT EVEN KNOW the students involved.
In addition to the social network portal to the employer's intranet, an iPhone/Touch app has been developed. The intranet/work server becomes your hub and everything sent over it becomes archived and is potentially actionable. While certainly easier and more fun to use, the disguised corporate hub may be loved by some and adopted by several others but how often do the practices of one portal of platform travel with you to another. Can you jump from one browser tab (where you're using Facebook and posting with a little bit of unrestricted abandon) over to the company portal where some of the same friends you have just talked about getting together for a night of intoxication are crossing the lines between personal and professional with their posts?
Just because someone adds commenting, wikis, and ratings to excel spreadsheets, doesn't mean I should be sucked into bringing them home with me. Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.
A "Look Over Your Shoulder at Work" Song
Because they're Hamilton boys and this song kicks ass - The Arkells with Oh, The Boss is Coming
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