I’m almost 2 months into my new IT job, it’s been great so far. I really enjoy the troubleshooting and brainstorming. My new boss, who built the IT structure for the mac’s for our Company, which is a big national company. She gets like 400 messages a day from email, IM, phone-calls, etc…
the biggest complaint from departments is that the really simple stuff isn’t automated.
Example >> We have some scripts that download certain image files from a server, and put them all in one folder, where you can access them and move them to where you need them. There is endless complaining about why can’t it just download them to the folder it needs to go too! so we don’t have to physically move files from one folder to another.
My Bosses point is “Ya, we could do it, but then it never stops, that just want something else automated too. What they don’t realize is, we could automate their whole job for them, then where would they be!”
It’s funny people don’t complain about the complex things, they just don’t want to move some files.
It makes you think though, whether technology really improves the quality of life?
called “The Unlikely Prophets of Blogging” by Ben Arment
…My favorite t-shirt says, “No One Cares About Your Blog.” It’s a phrase that pokes fun at bloggers who think their ideas can change the world. But the reality is they’re doing it.At a large denomination’s annual meeting last year, the president was replaced by a surprising winner due, in large part, to the efforts of bloggers.
In his farewell speech, the outgoing president groused, “Do you think if we spent less time blogging we might have more time to do some baptizing? Do you think if we spent less time fumbling around with those computers we might have more converts?”
He was obviously frustrated at how the internet had decentralized the denomination’s influence. People without official positions were now calling the shots…
-You don’t think of Florida first when someone mentions Miami.
- You think Pro football teams are supposed to wear orange!
-You’ve heard of 3.2% beer.
-You know all the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
-You know what a buckeye really is, and have a recipe for candy ones.
-You root for a college team though you’ve never taken a class there.
-You know what game they’re playing when the Mud Hens take on the Clippers.
-”Vacation” means spending a day at Cedar Point or King’s Island.
-You measure distance in minutes.
-You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
-You carry jumper cables in your car.
-You know what pop is.
-You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
-The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.
-You think that deer season is a national holiday.
I think there are some really big issues in the world that christians are hesitant to get involved in, because we have done such a good job at deeming somethings holy and other things not.
Like Gun Control, Immigration, The Welfare System, Outsourcing, Economic Trade, Political Reform, Censorship, Free Speech, Behavioral Psychology, Bio-Genetics, even the Education arena.
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