I think I’ve discovered the secret of the long standing conflict between IT workers and management. Which is to say, one of my commenters (RobMoir) articulated it and I’m totally stealing his concept.
It comes down to the same mentality as religion vs. science.
A true believer in religion doesn’t need proof, faith is enough for them. In [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 29, 2008
Religion vs. Science
April 28, 2008
The luckiest people in Australia
There is a “satirical news programme” in Australia known as The Chaser (technically, they have gone through a few names for different series – their latest was called “The Chaser’s War on Everything” but let’s keep things simple and call them The Chaser.) They specialise in doing public stunts designed to make someone look silly.
The [...]
April 25, 2008
April 25th – ANZAC Day
April 25th is one of the most significant days of the year in Australia. It marks the day that the Australia and New Zealand Army Corp (along with other armed forces of the British Empire) landed on the beaches of Gallipoli on the Turkish peninsula.
A long, bloody, pointless and quite frankly disastrous campaign ensued the [...]
April 22, 2008
A message to the crazy bastard on the bus
If I could say one thing to the guy I had to deal with on the bus it would be: “TAKE YOUR FUCKING MEDICATION!”
April 21, 2008
Project management disasters
Over more than 10 years of contracting as an IT Business Analyst, I’ve learned there are two main reasons companies hire contractors. Either they’re running some huge sprawling project and want to throw more bodies at it or they don’t have the in house expertise for a particular project so they want to bring in an outsider [...]
April 18, 2008
Fuck Scientology!
I never got into this whole “Anonymous” is going to take down Scientology thing. I’ve always thought Scientology sucked – I did their “personality” test about 20 years ago and it was clear that they were evil, manipulative bastards. But I never really spent a lot of effort attacking them.
Until the fuckers decided to start [...]
April 17, 2008
Hey, I’m famous!
Well, kind of. YouTube have decided to send out press releases about the launch of the Partner Program in Australia. They asked if I’d be OK with doing some media about the fact that I’m in the partner program and be a total attention whore I said “Sure!”
So I was actually mentioned in a few [...]
April 16, 2008
Technology worship is stupid
For those who haven’t noticed, I’m a bit of a geek. I’m not so obsessed with being the first to have the latest and greatest tech toys as I once was but I do still love gadgets. I have a weakness for shiny things with blinkenlights.
So by most standards I qualify as a technophile. But [...]
April 15, 2008
The Devil’s Playground
You know how some fundamentalist religious types think the Harry Potter books are encouraging devil worship? Well, they really wouldn’t like the playground i took my kids to on the weekend.
For those who don’t know, the “Angry Aussie” theme in this video (and others) was done for me by the most [...]
