I love to learn new things, however going to classes just never works since I have so much other junk in my life. When ever I find a free way to learn something I always try to take full advantage of it. OpenLearn I haven’t played with it to much but I have looked at the courses and they look pretty good.
I am a Information Technology person. That is what I do for a living and those are supposedly the people I work for. There are a couple of things that I have learned from a mixture of my Management days and to my switch to the Information technology world.
One of the these things is you need the right tools for the job. When I was an Aircraft Mechanic I had a huge tool box that I would wheel out to the Plane I was working on that day. Although we had a joke that everything could be fixed with a screwdriver and a hammer. That was a joke, you didn’t see me out there changing a jet engine without the right torque wrenches.
This leads me to the situation I am at right now… I have a system that I have to set up that will scan the whole Network for any vulnerabilities that may exist. Well this leads to a lot of issue, mainly that if I find stuff that means someone hasn’t been doing their job. Well that person that usually gets slammed is my supervisor. So the other day when I told my supervisor that the software I am using just went to a new version and the minimum requirement has been raised. I gave him the specs and a purchase order for a new server. Of course the Minimum Requirements are spot on what the server I am using now has. What I have learned in my short IT career is that the Minimum requirements are the BARE MINIMUM… This system lets me pull up my reports with great detail. I have the scan running at night and the next morning I start compiling the information so I can make a report. It takes longer for the system to compile the report than it did for the scan. I was an hour late for my report the other day. Yes that was a butt chewing. I was watching the system Performance the whole time it was trying to compile the report and sure enough the Processor was at 100% for 4 hours.
But that does not get me a new server for my needs because the company that makes this software says my server meets the system requirements.
If you manage an IT Shop and do not want to keep up with technology do everyone that works for you a favor… RETIRE… I still hear everyday, “Well we never had these problems with a Mainframe.”
I looked bad in my daughters eyes last night and I believe when my Mother saw what I was talking about she thought I was a bad person also.
My daughter came home with something from the school last night. This was a pre-written Letter to our State Representative. They wanted me to sign it and send this letter into this Rep. Of course I do not agree with putting something politcal into my daughters hands without explaining the full ramifications that this letter could cause.
This letter was to try and get a bill passed where Magazines could no longer place advertisements to Tobacco Products. I understand that their point is the school gets these magazines so they can put them in the library and classrooms so the children can do projects. I do agree that I do not want children to start smoking and I do not want advertising tobacco in my daughters school. But I refused to sign it. Of course this got me yelled at by my daughter and my Mother.
I do agree that these Corporations that publish the Magazines do not need to have tobacco products in them when kids are going to be reading them. So I explain to the two women that were looking at me as a Monster, I do not believe this is a Government issue. I believe if these parents want this to change then they need to go to the Magazine publishers not the Government. They still looked at me like a monster, “Dad, you want kids to smoke?”
Of course I do not want kids to smoke, but I do believe that this is a moral decision by the company not the government. What happens if the Government forces this company to not sell this advertising space to tobacco companies anymore? Then the people that think Alcohol Advertisements in Magazines should be outlawed. Then People that do not like women in bikini’s will want that made illegal also. Then Men will fight to take all tampon ads out of Magazine’s.
The company has a product to sell, Advertising space, if they want to sell that space to tobacco companies then by all means that is their choice. If you do not like it then do not buy the magazine.
For some reason todays society thinks it is the Government’s job to force morals on people, I will make my decision based on my morals, I will not allow the government to make these choices for me.
I do however want to thank the school for providing me with this great situation to teach my daughter. However, do not force your political beliefs on my children in school.
I got this in an email yesterday and of course my good ol’ system here is stripping the attachment when I try to forward it. So I figured, “Lets put it on my blog and let everyone see it.
I would credit the photographer but I got it in a long line of Farwarded Emails.
It is Spring and since I am a Lacrosse player this is my time of year. I played Lacrosse up until I moved back from Europe two years ago. I have not found any league’s or pick up games that would be for an old guy like myself around here. So I figured I would List the League’s incase anyone wanted to check this great sport out.
First I want to Point out The MLL - Major League Lacrosse Schedule Games start in May. Probably the only Major League Sport that you can get tickets to for $15… or $170 for Season Tickets.
Next there is also the NLL - The National Lacrosse League This Schedule Started in December and runs into April. Again - $15
Unlike other sports College Lacrosse is actually more popular than the Pro Games. These games usually start in Feb. and goes in to May.
Check the Sport out!!!
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