Juiceless.

Words, sometimes just refuse to form.
Recent events in my life, as well as in other people's lives have not been worth commenting about. But I will just be good and crack up one.

Recently, we were called to a meeting and told of something about a job re-evaluation or promotion. Choose as you like. Generally this means that some more money is added to your bottomline. With great speed new copies of a document we call "job description" were handed to us. This new document, quite naturally increased the scope of our responsibilities, added a new range of systems to be developed; A new list of Projects 2006 was drawn up. My salary, however, has refused to move. The second part of the documentation, the one that tells you that your salary has inched up a couple of hundreds, seems to have gotten stuck at the printer. Or perhaps the computer, being the intelligent thing that it is, has refused to process this part of the equation at all. A very rosy picture in summary, I must add.

Someone has decided that the intranet looks "very dull". Consequently, it must be made to look "spontaneous, inviting and exciting" [someone wants to marry the intranet?]. Further consequently, it has been decided that "I am the most talented person" in the entire __ as far as graphic design is concerned. This is a line of thought that I find particularly disturbing. As well as untrue. Being "graphically talented", as I am repeatedly made aware, I should re-vitalize the intranet. And while I am at it, other things which are more important, and are of definitely more value, should proceed as planned.
0.5 has a 28 hour day. Or two brains, and three hands (as Samborera would put it). Look at me closely next time guys.
Manhours will be wasted playing with Fireworks and Flash. Colossal waste of time.

Someone asked me, to "investigate" why Crystal Reports blurs BLOBs (images).
And then do what? Write a patch which I will send to Seagate Software who will then mend their crappy software? And this coming from a fellow developer! Senior Developer infact. Some people have this insatiable quest to get physically harmed.

Oh yeah. Some old curmudgeon has decided that wearing headphones in the office is uncomely behaviour. I am thinking that there must be some business rationale behind it, otherwise there is no sensible explanation. Something like: 0.5, your wearing of headphones while writing code is leading to loss of revenue to the tune of like a million a day. To ensure we don't collapse, you must stop forthwith. Those of you who are wont to agree with this line of thinking, I will quickly remind you what I do:
Machines (computers) help people. I help machines. We have languages we use to communicate: they include vb, asp, C++ and sql. These languages have no eyes, ears or mouth. The machines love me in return; they play me sweet rock music. See? Symphony. Until some rank outsider who only knows how to work MS Outlook steps into the picture.

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