Just to recap, the weekend was mostly concerned with sloth. I got a few things done, but nothing like what I’d wanted to, and I was horribly lazy most of the time. Yesterday, I was busy tying up loose ends from the weekend, plus catching up on correspondence for work, and basically trying to finish a bunch of things I’d started over the previous few weeks. I think I was relatively successful, and by the time evening rolled around, I had time to kick back and think about things a little. That’s a very good feeling, especially if I can sustain it for a while.
- In Deregulation Pains, the Idiot Villager looks at my comments on deregulation and says:
That’s part of what I was getting at with the post, but I usually stop short of advocating collapse. Why? Mostly because it will inconvenience me more in the short-term to have things collapse, but also partly because it will hurt others. In the long-term, it’s probably best to let things collapse (which I alluded to in my comment that I’d start rewriting the code and end up never shipping), but I’ve been looking at life through a short-term viewpoint lately. That’s part of what happens when I get too busy to lean back and ponder.Sadly, government has left reformers with little to work with. Sometimes reformers must demonstrate the house-of-cards structure of government bureaucracy by deregulating a sector and allowing the still-regulated sectors to collapse. It may not be nice, be neither is government.
- I got another call yesterday from Cisco technical support about my PIX 501. They’re wondering what I want to do with it, as I’ve had a case open with them for a few months now. I replied that
I don’t have time to set up two machines to do the packet-sniffing you want, so at the moment, I’m living with the problem and cursing Cisco.
The guy asked if I wanted to RMA the PIX, and I replied that I was too tired to care. We’ll see if they call back, or just close the case, but I can’t recommend the PIX any longer. It’s supposed to be designed for home-offices, but when something goes wrong, Cisco wants you to be a full-blown network engineer to troubleshoot the damned thing. I’m smart enough to do that, but if I were billing all the time I’ve spent futzing with the damned box, I’d have made enough to buy a half-dozen of them. Oh, and the follow-up call I was promised infive or ten minutes
? It never came. - Hey! Trademark Registration Number 2830084 was granted last week for Better Nerds® and now I can officially use that circle-R on things. How cool is that? Well, probably not terribly, but it makes me happy, and thanks to a last-minute phone-call to the printer, I might have managed to sneak the circle-R onto my new business cards.
- The Third round of transit talks presses on and was still going on when the story went to press after midnight. Hopefully some progress was made. I’d like to have my initial guesstimate of a two-month strike turn out to be too long. [press-patch]