Slow Saturday

It's going to be a slower weekend than I anticipated. Not only are people away for 16 Tones in the UK, but I've having these weird DHCP problems that need me to renew the lease every minute or so just to keep connected. I've called Charter cable about this, but they're "still working on the problem" as the case may be.

So, if nobody hears from me, that's pretty much why.

Messages from the Dream King, Part 8982

Fragment of a conversation:

"... of course the IT boom was going to go bust. Companies hired IT professionals and expanded their IT departments without even understanding what IT was all about. That's the problem with buzzwords - they make the technology a black box. And black boxes create a mystique as long as you don't look in the box. So for that time, if it was IT, it was good. If it had to do with the Internet, it was good. In the 50s, it was tail fins and nuclear power. Stick the word 'Atomic' on something, and it sold, because back then, without public understanding of the effects of radiation and fallout, the Atom was our Friend..."