Friday, March 02, 2007

Jay: I’m More Maine Than Massachusetts?

You are 90% Mainah!
 

BORN RAISED AND LOVIN IT!!!!You are all Mainah and wouldn’t have it any other way.  You are the rare breed of Mainer that would never leave (even if you won them there megabucks!)

How Mainer are you?
Make a Quiz

Via Andrew


12:11 PM | Quiz or Meme • (0) Comments • Permalink

Jay: Entertainment

It’s becoming worth whatever revenue loss and incipient financial collapse it could mean for me, just for the entertainment value of watching the Big Computer Services Vendor leech onto the big client, cause problems, and sell them solutions to said problems.

For instance, BCVS did a manual Exchange update on Tuesday.  That broke Exchange because it confused Sybari Antigen to do an update without taking it into account.

The result: BCVS gets to sell a rather costly external spam filtering service, including a spurious $375 setup charge predicated on 3 hours at $125, including training.  How do you need training for something that takes your e-mail, via a change of MX record, filters it and puts it through to you?  Do-it-yourself recovery of false positives?  Bear in mind that to this client my $75 hourly rate, discounted for presumed volume, is overly expensive to them.  I have to admire someone who can get them to pay $125 an hour and feel happy about it, and who can get them to buy 100k of new equipment when getting them to buy new computers was always like pulling teeth.  That’s some serious sales skill.

I just wish I could flash forward about three years and find out how unhappy they’ll be with the deals they’re making now.  Especially since by then I will presumably have extricated myself enough away from them to not be blamed for problems BCVS causes.

Since I started typing this, it appears that a push update of Windows and Office BCVS did yesterday provoked extensive if harmless errors and a bit of resultant panic today.

Man, this is going to be fascinating.


09:18 AM | Business • Geekery • (0) Comments • Permalink

Jay: Poll Results

I participated in the latest Right Wing News poll, which I haven’t done in a long time.  Thought it was an interesting set of questions, and it was quick and easy to answer.


07:50 AM | Blogging • News • Quiz or Meme • (0) Comments • Permalink

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Deb: The Girls. (Because my sense of symmetry demands it.)

My favorite?  LaKisha by a big ol’ margin. 

I don’t care how vocally perfect Melinda was last night; this is not, as Simon insists, a singing contest.  It’s a performance contest as much as anything, and I’m just not in love with the song choice.  I know, I know, heresy.  Burn me at the stake now, and you won’t have to listen to me go all Nelson on you when Melinda gets booted a few weeks into the finals because America?  Just not connecting with her style, dawg.

Gina I liked, Jordin I liked, Leslie I liked.  Gina and Leslie are doomed, though, I think.  Maybe not tonight, but they’re goners before long.  Stephanie Edwards has the cutest damned hair in the world.  She can sing, too.  Sabrina?  Still don’t get why people are excited about her.  She just does nothing for me. 

Antonella?  Not so good.  Haley?  Enh.  Alaina?  Nice try, honey.  You win Weird Song Choice of the Night, which is impressive considering that we got Whitneyed twice, with a side of Celine.

Going?  I’d toss Haley and Alaina, or possibly Antonella and Alaina.  I’m not sure who’d be more painful to watch again.  All three are doomed, so how much does the order really matter, anyway?  It looks to me like there’s only really one slot left in the top six for the girls, and does it even matter which girl wins it?  From here, it looks like the contest is a lot smaller than that already.


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