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I just wanted to point out this great book someone send me the other day. I’m not sure of it was because my situation is very simular, and in fact I have reach the last chapter (both in my life and reading it). And even though I had no rockefeller I knew it was time some time ago. Here is the ebook, and yes it’s in spanish.

I learn this trick today, please replace any instance of * with the correct assort of words.

So it turns out they are at it again. The * mid-management has demanded a new set of *. Now the interesting thing about this set of *, is that it’s so amorfous that it can fit everything that is “wrong” in it. It is supposed to be a security isssue, but when that fails is a bad-usage-of-resources * and if that fails then it’s the way things are done in <insert place you have never and will probable never be>.

It always starts with it’s a security issue, we must protect customers data. This way the manage to block all USB, CDROM, and peripetals in general. Of course this was because people where downloading torrents and burning them to go home. Since people started just watching stuff locally they are now on to kill the streaming. First it was by request but since a failed attempt to get move benefits from the “leaders of the real workers”, new measures needed to be taken by the * mid-management. The new rule involve adding a ban (ip/dns block) on mayor bandwith sites, yes they are talking about youtube, now when confronted with the fact that google video hosts a lot of very interesting talks like python 3000, anatomy of a debian package or conferences like javaOne, then the * switch over to the bad-usage-of-resources. I believe a little NDA stops me from telling you that is NOT an issue, because there they have the best price in the market. Any we accept the * claim that we should cut down on bandwidth usage, and then come the next one because some people where playing cards, OMG cards! people where playing cards! which made me wonder how is this a bad usage of resources or a security issue, well remember mid-*-management things of people as assets, employees are things they own, which is sad because that is all they are going to own. yes, yes I know they don’t but when your stuck with a loan for your house and/or kids it’s a little hard to not believe they own ur *.

Now the sad part of the story is that the real losers are the * at mid-management. Lets examine how they got there. They are good with numbers but not great, they are good with people but not the best, they can run a deparment but not a company and the most important part they probably got their promotion because they where high enough so they couldn’t be fired or for someone reason someone put them there. And the really sad part is that most think that being at the top is when they will finally rest, when you will finally stop * up and * down.

So the * mid management now wants people to get there at 8 leave at 5 in the mean time touch their computers for work related stuff and then sit and wait without doing anything, which is ok by mid-management standards (after all they only do what they learn) but they are forgetting the most important part of their work they they * up upper management they don’t give a * how much was paid in bandwidth (yes “free” one) they don’t care if someone is playing cards or chess or not being there half the day. Uppermanagement cares about 2 things how much we made and how much of that is profit. And what stupid mid management does not undestand is that the current state of affairs is what keeps the first happening, now of course you can make the % of profit go up by appliying all the * rules to reduce cost but then you are making the first thing harder to happen, and I’m certain that anyone from uppermanagement will fire your * if you go and tell him we increase our % of profit by 40% but we reduced our income by 50% because the measures we took made all our good employees leave the company.

Now the question is how to fight back? and yes you have to fight back because mid-management is stupid enough not to realize that the way things are is what makes the company good.

At A place who’s name I won’t tell. there are some new old rules being applied, so here are some things you maybe find interesting
browse at work or foxyProxy

A nice video my cousing send me the other day.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3014637678488153340

I know a LOT of people have said the same thing before, but jobs has a great way of talking. Ohh by the way it has spanish subtitles if you care about it…

Lately a LOT of people at the office are into the Cube again, side note: The guy that made it up should have tons of money out of it and should probably puke when people tell him how great it is…

Someone told me the other day (sorry I forgot your name) that it may be related with a movie that’s around recently, and it could be people love to be “special”.

Now this post is really about a cool link I stumble upon. Which is the result of art + time (lots of it) + Rubik’s Cube. And yes it’s call Rubikubism, but wikipedia doesn’t knows about it yet, any takers?

I had to write one of this (actually 3 one for each project/simulator), please note a simulator in this context is just a peace of code that will push a lot of load into the application, “simulating” another application…

Anyway I had this nice outline of the doc first an explanation of what it does, then what it’s build on (tecnology, APIs,etc), then what it was it’s input data and then the most “interesting” part how to run it.
Now this got me thinking why we need such a useless peace of information? isn’t this what the README file is for? This document is not for end users they couldn’t care less, and this document isn’t for managers either because they care even less So the goal of this is that when I’m gone someone will take over development of the code now for that guy or gal (yes we have some woman at work) I have written code and comments so my question is what developer will read a word file telling him what the application does?