Archives - (February, 2006)
Old Pic.. Very Angry
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Working with your fiance
Sometimes I feel like I have to wear kid gloves more than I should. I feel like I can't have an opposing opinion because really what man CAN when it comes to their significant other. Everything in a relationship is compromise, but everything in business doesn't have to be. The problem is I now have to call a coworker and smooth things out with them simply because I know that when I get home she will be mad at me for a decision I made at work.. or for a position I held. These things should [...]
Responsibility to Society
Do you think all human beings have a basic responsibility .. to do what's right? I know that it might mean discomfort, pain, or loss.. but isn't that worth it? I mean the alternative is an approach towards a hedonistic reality that doesn't seem to be the least bit gratifying. I'd much rather give my life to doing the right thing. Nobody gets anywhere by saying "oh that task is too insurmountable, I'll just get high instead". You pretty much just sit in death's waiting room [...]
Beam Me Up
I'm so sad. You know.. we're working on spec'ing out equipment.. again. For this application that parses quite a bit of XML on the server side. Our goal is pretty much to handle around 200 concurrent users during our peak times with the typical acceptable response time of about 3 seconds. Keep in mind this application is total horse shit from the software perspective.. i've ranted about it before. It is a hybrid perl / java application in some sort of transition period where most of it's fast functionality [...]