Thursday, November 13, 2008

Gut-Wrenching

This week I lost several friends.

Not lost as in "at sea" or "to the sin of gluttony" but, nonetheless, lost. Possibly, forever.

You see, this week I saw how it really doesn't matter in the end how hard you work, how loyal you are, nor how great the accumulated values of you're contributions are. It just doesn't matter because, in the end, you're not even so much as a line-item on some bean counter's spreadsheet but, merely, a bean.

This week several of my fellow "beans," of whom I sincerely refer to as friends in addition to being trusted colleagues, were shown the proverbial door. In many ways they just seemed to have lost the job lottery - nothing more, nothing less.

They're hurting. I'm hurt. And..., this sucks.

Alas, life will go on. So, farewell, my friends. Farewell and let hope be your guide.

Your Constant Friend and Now-Former Colleague,
Danny


Friday, July 11, 2008

Update Day

I updated my iPhone with the 2.0 Software Update.  Relatively slow going (more or less a total factory reset and reload of all music, audiobooks, and videos) that took about 1/2 hour to complete but no issues at all.

Immediately downloaded Sega's Super Monkey Ball from the AppStore and handed it to the little boy to play while I activated a new MobileMe account.  Initial reaction was overwhelmingly positive - I had to promise to let him play again as soon as he wakes up tomorrow morning in order to get him to bed on time. "No, Dear, I am not buying the kid his own iPhone."

And I thought that the iPhone upgrade was slow!  Apple is having severe performance issues with iPhone activations that appear to also be impacting MobileMe's debut.  Some of the features aren't even working - I couldn't even get to the Account preferences page on my account.  Curiously, it seemed to perform much faster on Firefox 3.0 than on Safari 3.1.2 - makes me wonder if there's dependency on WebKit's SquirrelFish update to the JavaScript engine that isn't yet baked-in to Safari.

So far my experience, not unlike some of the quirkiness in the initial OS X Leopard release last fall, feels more like a beta than a fully-baked product.  I have every confidence that things will get better but it pains me to see Apple behaving badly.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

To Blog or Not To Blog

So, two years and four months have passed and, still, nothing seems worthwhile of posting.  This, by no means, suggests that blogging, per se, is not worthwhile - I follow several blogs on a daily basis.

Somehow, though, it just doesn't seem right for me even though I have often thought of starting (again) several times, even literally writing it down on one of my "To Do" lists.

Maybe later...