30 September, 2008

The end of the world...

If Schrödinger could think outside the box he'd have probably end up making soup ads, and the paradox would have boiled to when hot water becomes soup. (It's probably when you throw in the carrots. Like in the original scenario, when, if you stuck a carrot in the the cat's ass, the it dies or enjoys it. If it's an emo cat, it enjoys it because it finally dies from it.)

On a different note, I've been on the road for a month, during which I almost missed the end of the world, because people in the country (where I spent most of that month) don't really care about the LHC (chances are you're looking the acronym up, too). They were more concerned about not being able to run Yahoo Messenger after the new and improved WAN was implemented.

Back to the city, where people are concerned about the end of the world and so they look for answers from witches on tv at prime-time.

Now that the new infrastructure in place, it's time to deploy the new ERP. I'm senior, so I get to do the more interesting part of the whole process: imaging a couple of servers (about 15 minutes watching the progress bar fill up) and, at the end, mapping the printers. 50 printers, for almost 150 users. You cannot script any of this (you could, if you are to listen to the vendor. But actually, you can't).

And you cannot get the users to read the manual. I bet I'll have to explain the same thing at least 80-90 times.
Maybe the end of the world is coming. Do you know any witch that knows how to do Remote Assistance
over slow WAN links? (new and improved comes at a cost, and we're cheap.)