Things Best Said

News junkies everywhere can’t argue with a t-shirt like this…

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lady liberty
Originally uploaded by digitalhooligan.

An picture I ran across from more than a year back.

just thought I’d share it
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So, I’m moving my web hosting from ICDSoft which has good service but crappy hosting plans. Their 24/7 tech support was always great when I was in a pickle at 2am on a Sunday morning. (That could have more to do with their servers being in Kowloon, but nonethless)

I’m now moving to Dreamhost which comes highly recommended and has fantastic hosting packages. (20GB storage + 1TB bandwith to start!)

I haven’t yet had the opportunity to deal with the Dreamhost tech support, but you’ve gotta love a company who has this as one of the options when asking a question…

Interested in Dreamhost? Use this LINK.
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wink

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Brian
DATE: 8:33 AM
so I’m thinking of starting my own vlog, so I’m trying to watch all the vlogs I can to get ideas…. I’ll mark winking at the camera off my list….
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This link was passed on to me through some colleagues here at work. It identifies personality types in a typical IT or tech department. Many of them are funny and mostly true. See if you can find yourself in them. Many of us don’t strictly follow one of them but are more of an amalgam of several.

I didn’t find a match for my personality, so, I wrote one…

Jovial Jay

His characteristically thin structure and pale skin is evidence of too many years in front of the Movie screen, TV, videogame, magazine and, ultimately, the computer. He is a platform bigot who is likely to be seen at all major, and some minor, expo events associated with the platform. He is easily identified by the “wears his heart on his T-shirt” approach to life. He can often be pig-headed with others when he feels his idea is the most logical or creative, but is quick to cede control in light of better argued ideas. Jovial Jay finds happiness in the journey, not the destination.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Aaron
DATE: 1/26/2006 11:22:50 AM
Here’s me:

Quiet Quincy
Quincy is one of those guys who has no need to brag about his technical skills or the depth of his technical knowledge. He’s not much interested in being “alpha geek” at the office, he just wants to do a good job and then go home to his wife and children. Quietly spoken and unassuming, he looks on with amusement at Fanboy Frank’s ever-changing enthusiasms and shakes his head, knowing that in a few more years Frank will have gained enough experience to know that the computing industry is full of “next big things that generally aren’t. Given a task, he just sits down and does it. He doesn’t succumb to heroic bug-fixing and late night coding efforts - his code is good enough to begin with that there are rarely any problems with it. He probably won’t get many pats on the back from management, whose attention will largely captured by the technical prima donnas that swan around the project space, dropping buzzwords and acronyms like they were the names of celebrities they knew personally. But without Quincy and those of his ilk, the project would fail - because someone has to get the work done.

Here’s my CTO:

Unintelligible Uri
English is not Uri’s native tongue. This is blatantly obvious to anyone who attempts to communicate with him. He speaks with a thick accent and at such a rapid pace that listeners can go several minutes in conversation with him without having a clear idea of what he has said. Trying to work with Uri can be an excruciating experience. He cannot contribute to technical discussions effectively, regardless of how well informed he might be, because he is always shouted down by those with more rhetorical flair, regardless how uninformed they might be. Delegating work to him is a dangerous undertaking because you can never be certain that he has really understood the description of his assignment, as he tends to respond with affirmative clichÌ©s that can be easily said, but don’t necessarily reflect that information has been successfully communicated. Very often, people chose simply not to bother communicating with Uri, because they find it both exhausting and frustrating. Whoever hired Uri has failed to appreciate that fluency in a natural language is worth ten times as much as fluency in a programming language.
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