stupid people

I’m a radio scanner hobbyist, among other things (that I can print).  While I’m sitting here, blogging away, I hear the Mall Security channel go off:
DESK: “Security…. report of a dog in front of a store.”
SECURITY:  “Yes, it’s a visual impairment dog.”
Pig-ignorant, dog-ignorant, whatever.
(this one’s for you, forsythe!)

One of my favorite blogs, Dog Reader, just featured a story about finding a computer virus on the space station.  I highly recommend this blog and always find myself saying THAT’S RIGHT when I read it.
I want to deconstruct the story and the larger issues a bit.   Here are the facts as stated in [...]

I have this recurring nightmare…. I’m at work and surrounded by the largest collection of incompetents I have ever seen.  While I stand there, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who need individual lectures on how to find their own desktops, I notice the problem is only getting worse.
I’m just kidding, of course.   [...]

Why do we allow this?   More corporate records stored in close proximity to the web.
An Indian hacker is believed to have planted a keystroke logger in a Best Western computer, stole the credentials, then sold it to the Russian mob.  If you stayed at a Best Western in Europe, you had better start looking into [...]

It’s no secret that I don’t like iPhones or Macs.  What does this mean?  It means that I don’t like them but I couldn’t care less if you have an entire warehouse of them.  In fact, I hope you do; they’re a license to print money.
As the guy who makes the corporate IT decisions, I [...]

I think that shooting people who write tv commercials is too kind in some cases. One example would be the Sonic(?) fast food commercials. They take place at a drive-through in the car. There are always two (alleged) adults, shot very close up, reciting allegedly intelligent dialogue. Unfortunately it never comes across as intelligent dialogue. [...]

We’re really doing well in our virtualization project at work.  On Monday we got everyone to shut down a little early and planned to virtualize our Exchange server and one or two others.
Precisely at 5pm, there was a blip.  A blip can be defined as a momentary fluctuation in power or signal.  This particular blip [...]

PizzaFace writes “The Washington Post reports on the booming business of selling your medical treatment records. Today these are mainly records of your prescriptions, but the data warehouses will soon have records of your lab tests, too. The companies selling these records make it easy for insurance companies to avoid risk by assigning each person [...]

NEW YORK  CNNMoney.com) — Exxon Mobil once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history Thursday, posting net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter.
Is anybody shocked or surprised? 
Yes, it’s Blame Time.  Must be the falling dollar.  Yeah, that’s it.

Working in MIS for most of my computer life, I have always wanted to maintain a balance between the knowledge haves and the knowledge have-nots.  One cannot rightfully expect a coworker to be able to program in C++ (one cannot rightfully expect anyone from MIS to explain it either).  By the same token, there has [...]