Tag Archives: Technology

The Morning After

Some people are great at playing instruments, others skilled at crafts, while others still are eloquent; silver-tongued if you will. Me, I’m skilled with a knife. I’ll cut that silver right out of you. That’s code for, I installed CM7 on my Inspire, which seems to have gone fairly well. There’s a few niggles, but nothing that I’m feeling is really urgent. If I wanted to fix them, I could, so I’ll chalk this up as a victory.

Sometimes I can’t leave well enough alone – even though I really should. It’s kind of like that scab that you keep picking at, or a nail that you know you’ve chewed too close, but you can’t help yourself and you take just a little too much off and it bothers you. That’s pretty much how I work with just about everything. I guess in some ways that’s what makes me good in my field. Always wanting to know more. It’s also why I despise people so much sometimes, because they are just one disappointment after another. You think you’ve got them trapped, and they don’t have any more reason to lie; however, it seems that’s exactly what they do. They lie a little more, I guess just to see how much they can get away with. Is it too much to ask (well of course it is, otherwise you wouldn’t be asking – right?) to have just one person that isn’t slipping you the proverbial shiv in the kidney while you’re not paying close attention?

Anyhow, here’s someone that I just know wouldn’t lie to me (or you!)

Du Liniang - Character (China)

I'd like to wake you before the warblers do ^_^

Aria of Destruction

So I’ve had this Aria for a couple of days. It’s pretty awesome. You can do all sorts of interesting things with it. I’m pretty pleased. Of course, I absolutely despise AT&T, because their plans are expensive. On the other hand I get a discount, but it only barely makes it competitive. I’m not a fan. Obviously, this is the Aria part.

The cycle of ass kicking at the job continues. There is no reason for someone to have 15 tickets. Seriously. At one point some of us (and there are only three) have upwards of 20 tickets. It’s been like this for quite some time and it’s getting old. We can’t effectively function being buried under so many tickets. Granted, some of those tickets are actually alerts (which have to be treated like a ticket – meaning we have to investigate and ensure that nothing is in fact wrong), but it’s really overwhelming. Other shifts have at least 5 people, and that increases their ability to handle increased load, but our shift (despite having greater numbers of foreign customers awake and submitting tickets) has 3 and that’s apparently all we need. This is not true. We need more people (at least one more).

I started this post many hours ago, but apparently it was too busy for me to get it done, even though it’s retarded short. So, I’ve gone ahead and finished it up now that I’m off shift finally. Only 45 minutes late getting off this time. Awesome! I’ll update this with a pic in a bit. I need to go home. I’m tired.

Stupid Cell Phone Tricks

The BBC has an article discusses a company producing a technology that allows people to track others with a cell phone. The short of it, is that the technology uses the motion of the cell phone accelerometers to track even small movements with the built-in GPS of the phone. For those of you not in the know, GPS is used for positional tracking and is pretty accurate down to a couple feet at least. Interestingly, I discovered how accurate the GPS was with my iphone (company purchased, I wouldn’t ever buy one — I prefer the Android platform). I needed to get to a restaurant and I’d forgotten to write down the address, but I remembered the street. With a neato keen application called “Around Me” I was able to track my distance to the door of the restaurant within at least 5 feet. How incredibly useful!

Now imagine that your boss can see with a pretty precise degree where you are, and with this new technology in the mobile phone from KDDI, you’ll be comforted by the fact that your employer (or snooping wife/stalker/private investigator/police/friendly neighborhood government agent) will know if you’re actively moving around or standing still while you’re out of sight and where you might be doing it. I really don’t think I’d be too terribly happy if my employer started micromanaging my time by ensuring that i was being productive based solely on whether my phone is moving about enough for his/her standards.

“Hmm, prata has gone over his 3 minute time limit on bathroom privileges. We’ll have to write him up and remove one of his bathroom breaks to make up for the lost productivity.”

Nevermind I was spending those minutes actually at my desk and working, but I dropped my phone on my way from or to the bathroom. Or what if I leave my phone at my desk, but have done 6 tickets and rectified numerous problems. I sense lots of signing discussions with the higher ups. Yeah. I don’t like this technology at all.

Seo You Jin in Red Plaid

Why is it I know no girls that enjoy wearing skirts like this? Sad.