Long, Long day
Posted By matt on October 24, 2003
So, my day was long. Just exhausting. I ended up getting the customer squared away, and I think it made points for the company that we were willing to sit there and work through it with them and when we got to the end of the day, they were all set and ready to go. But, it was hard getting there.
In other news, I may have people to play paintball with again. Simon said he had some friends who played on private land around here, which is nice, because I don't have to deal with stupid people. It will be like being back in Burrillville, playing with my uncle and his friends, I hope.
Of course, that means I need to find a place to get air and paint. I used to buy them at the field, so I don't really know where to buy them around here.
Of course, if these people play, then they must know.
In the news:
Today is national take back your time day. Basically, Americans are overworked and we need to have things like minimum 4 weeks paid vacations, shorter work weeks, all that. Now, I can't say that I completely disagree. However, we can't do this without compromising productivity, and we can't do this unless everyone does it. Otherwise, the companies that do this will be less profitable and get eaten by the ones with the guys putting in 60-80 hour weeks. As it is, I usually work about 45-50 per week (technically it's an 8 hour day + 1 for lunch, and I usually end up eating at my desk, plus I often end up staying late a couple nights a week, and there have been a few weekends). Do I mind? Not really – it pays well for being fresh out of college, it's a small company so I get a lot of responsibility early in my career, and I also get a feeling of control and direction – I'm personally involved with this company's continued success.
A bunch of guys developing with a proprietary toolkit are SOL when the company goes out of business.
AOL is disabling services on customers' computers in order to stop popup spam. This is that Windows Messenger/WinPopUp/Net Send service that spammers are using to send annoying messages to people. Yet another Windows “feature” that was nifty in Win 3.1, but no one ever really used and is retained for 10 years for some stupid reason.
Tridge is wicked smot. I want to write software that's used by like every major company on the planet, too.
More on the MPAA's anti-copyright infringement campaign: they plan to indoctrinate our children in exchage for financial support of schools.
I suppose that's it for now.
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