The Office: Eenie, Meanie, Mienie, Moe! J+GoG.
Posted by: jebbx on: August 14, 2009
I am currently gainfully employed as an IT Manager. The only issue I have with this is that I do not really manage anything, I have no underlings. However, I am responsible for providing solutions to problems, finding efficient ways of performing similar tasks that improve overall business process, and performing minor miracles with a zero budget. When company take overs happen, I am then left with the task of performing major miracles without any decent information. Presented with this, I toss everything and instead focus on something more interesting: code.
Personal Space: Putting Opinion in Ones Pocket
Posted by: jebbx on: August 8, 2009
I have a very good friend in the IT industry. He is a programmer by trade, and we call him Mookity. He and I have fundamental differences when it comes to the IT world. He is a fan of Apple and Java and so forth and so on, and, well, I am not. Yet, today, I have had to put my opinion in my pocket and have listened. I have identified that I don’t like change in certain fundamental aspects of my IT world, and that Linux, or Unix, any form of ‘ix is going to be my own personal bugbear; but that isn’t going to stop me from learning something new, and something that seems, according to this website, something popular and a little future proof.
I enjoy programming. Not really as a career, as I have considered it before, but as something that allows me to express my own little creative flair along with rubbing my god complex lovingly. It began several years ago with simple Basic programming with the Commodore 64, but only really came into its own when I began work in a corporate environment and was put in charge of developing the local intranet in order to allow helpdesk functionality and general sanity in a company that was inundated by German Corporate Policy.
Personal Space: Cleaning Up the Act
Posted by: jebbx on: July 31, 2009
There’s a few things that the very few people who read this blog may notice; I’m cleaning up my act. Namely more structured posts, and more often posts. I’m thinking of essentially having a two post a week schedule. Further, I’m going to categorize the posts more accurately. Hence the titles and sub-titles.
The Office: Inundated
Posted by: jebbx on: July 29, 2009
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What the hell happened to the last few years? I recall quite vividly a time not so long ago when I didn’t have stress; at least nothing like I have now. I guess I had to put on the big girls panties and deal with the crap that comes with responsibility. Peter Parker, you had it wrong – the responsibility comes without the need of great power, although often the effects of showing great responsibility deliver great power thereafter. Not so long ago I was a techie. I can’t even recall the last time I looked at a half decent technical website. Tom’s Hardware! Anandtech! Wherefore art thou?
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Heh
Posted by: jebbx on: July 13, 2009
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Stumbled upon this while browsing the interwebs. It’s a music video by a group called No More Kings. It’s quite amusing. If you know your Karate Kid.
Microsoft Answers
Posted by: jebbx on: July 2, 2009
Came across this little gem on pcdoctors.co.za, one of the forums I lurk on. This is what happens when you ask what can only be a truly uninformed question on a technical board: Hard Drive Weight Gain
Say what?!
Posted by: jebbx on: June 19, 2009
This must be some kind of joke, surely? Ars Technica, a web site that keeps track of events in the technology world, reports that a woman in the states has been convicted in a civil case for pirating 24 songs. For this, the jury awarded the music company a $1.92 million payout. That’s in the region of $80,000 per song! What the hell?! (External Link to Ars Technica Article Here)
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A friend of mine is starting a nre blog: http://herofactory.wordpress.com/
Old Friends
Posted by: jebbx on: June 18, 2009
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I connected up with an old friend via facebook; turns out he’s an illustrator (which isn’t surprising considering his school career), and I was amazed to recognise some of his work, especially in magazines like Men’s Health.
I see that he does a cartoon with his brother, awesome. Here is one that I really enjoyed: http://www.thewesternnostril.co.za/page/7/
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- John1677: Very nice site! is it yours too
- StephanJade: Great article you got here. It would be great to read something more about this topic.
- Valentine Yeti: Oh Gods... enabling disk access. The great iPod myth. I have NEVER managed to get mine to do it correctly. There is supposed to be a way to get your
