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07 March 2001

Laxative 2001

The group at work is putting on a conference that it is calling the second annual "Perspective 2001" (never mind that last year's conference was called "Perspectives 2000" with an s, and a different year in the title). Apparently, the paid attendance won't be as high as would be hoped, which is somewhat attributable to most of the dimwits who are speaking at the event. One of my more capable colleagues has been tapped, at the last minute, to speak at the event, which he has dubbed "Laxative 2001." I rather like that title, and wish I had come up with it.

I might as well post a journal entry, because I'm getting NOTHING done today due to the facts that: 1) it's taking about 30 seconds even to pull up a view of shared network files in explorer, let alone open them, and 2) the internet connection itself has dropped to about 160 kbps (as opposed to that blazing 2 Mbps connection at home, where I worked quite efficiently yesterday). I would call the ITPs, but I'm sure they would just mumble something about "latency" and "congestion" and then I might have to recommend "Laxative 2001" as a solution to the distress.

OOOH, I just had a systemwide network message that one of the network servers has lost contact with the UPS! Things are certainly going to hell here today. But to keep things in perspective, It's Not Like People Are Stuck On The Moon!

[Posted @ 09:41 AM CST]


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