November 29th, 2011 My brother in arms Peter Cohen on the push back against telecommuting: I couldn’t agree more. A few companies ago I spent three years working from home after the local office closed. Those were the three most productive years of my career. In that time we rebuilt a Quality Assurance department from the ground up, including developing new QA and Customer Satisfaction capture, evaluation and reporting systems from whole cloth. My current company, however, refuses to allow telecommuting even though I have a 25 mile one-way commute, I’m the sole person in my office in my department and the rest of my team is on another continent. It’s fucking insane.
November 29th, 2011 I guess it’s time for yet another “generation” of tech workers to wake up to the fact that the bosses are lying. We aren’t special snowflakes whose precious skills are transforming the world. In reality we’re just as much cogs in the machine as the Chinese saps assembling our iPhones. I remember when I had that epiphany. It was in 1999 at the height of that tech boom when my boss flipped out because I had the audacity to leave when my shift was over. I told the crack-addled prick, “You pay me by the hour, I work by the hour. Take your bean-bag-chairs, foozeball tables and subdued lighting and shove it up your ass.” Life is too short and too special to waste making some other asshole rich.
November 29th, 2011 Jonathan Liu at Wired’s GeekDad blog breaks down the 5 greatest toys of all time. And by all time, for once, they don’t actually mean “since 2002″. The downside is that now we’re sure to see a Doctor Who branded “Geek (hipster) Approved”® Box for sale at ThinkGeek by Christmas.
November 28th, 2011 My learned colleague Harry Marks on noted imbecile Violet Blue’s opinion of the iPad vs. Kindle Fire as presented as part of one of ZDNet’s idiotic “Great Debates”: I would suggest a slightly different possibility. In its never-ending quest to slake its unquenchable thirst for page-views ZDNet has contrived yet another pointless “debate” about two products that compete with each other only in the febrile imaginations of delusional tech “journalists”. As to why Violet has taken the position she has — well, Steve Jobs was mean to her once…
November 22nd, 2011 Warning: No actual political content ahead. Woah there hippy…slow down…read past the headline…this post isn’t quite what you think it is. You see, I’m pretty much in agreement with the Occupy movement. Unfortunately there is a dark, insidious, and frankly evil thing that has come out of the Occupy movement that needs to be squashed like the fucking cockroach it is. I’m referring to the sudden fetish of shit-bag “journalists” and lame-ass “hacktivists” to slap the word “occupy” in front of every gods damned thing that happens to annoy them. Case in point, two recent “movements” Occupy Flash and Occupy HTML (links both courtesy of Daring Fireball). Look, I don’t care what your position is on Flash or HTML “purity” (hint, Flash sucks crusty hobo dick). Something that all right-thinking people can agree on is that neither one of them needs to be fucking “occupied”. Come on people, we lost the war over “-gate”. Now we have to endure shitty headline after shitty headline about “Glassgate” and “Antennagate” and “My-Chalupa-Didn’t-Have-Enough-Fucking-Meat-In-It-Fucking-Gate”. It’s time we said enough is enough. Let’s take a stand and let these shit-birds know that we’re not going to take this lazy bullshit
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November 15th, 2011 Yesterday Google posted an article on their blog with the wonderfully Orwellian title Greater choice for wireless access point owners. Addressing the persistent concerns over Google’s practice of gathering data on publicly accessible WiFi routers in order to bolster their location database Google has proposed a solution. Of course this being Google it’s an opt-out solution that 99% of the consumers purchasing a router will never know about. Worse yet, the “solution” is positively insulting to those who do know about it: That’s right, in order to protect the privacy of our personal networks Google wants us to modify the network name to conform to their arbitrary standards. I think that tonight I’ll be changing my network’s SSID to “Fuck you Google you arrogant assholes”.
November 15th, 2011 I’m somewhat amused by the members of the chattering class who’ve insisted from the outset that Apple’s primary, if not only, motivation for iTunes Match was extract $25 from people to “legitimize” their ill-gotten music collections who have now gone on to write reviews of iTunes Match showcasing their vast collection of non-iTunes Store media. So what you’re saying is…
November 9th, 2011 Jim Dalrymple at The Loop writing about his philosophy as a journalist: If only more so-called “journalists” believed this.
November 9th, 2011 Warning: Political Content Ahead Booyah! My friends over in Mesa actually did the right thing and booted out the fascist piece of human garbage Russell Pearce. Combine that with Democrat Greg Stanton defeating Tea Party friendly Wes Gullet in the Phoenix mayoral election and this is a decent day for Arizona politics. Combine that with the wins in Mississippi, Ohio, Maine and elsewhere and it’s a pretty good day for sanity overall.
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