Squirrel Repellant

Stuck in the Middle - "White Trash? Poser? You decide."

Remember the "Free Kevin" campaign? Kevin Mitnick was one of the first examples made by the federal government for "hacking" into computer systems. Well, Kevin spent 5 years in prison (4 1/2 BEFORE a trial) and has been out for 8 years but is still being harrassed.Labels: mitnick

Squirrels live in symbiosis with oak trees and are most responsible for their successful propagation across North America.
Squirrel brains are good to eat with scrambled eggs for breakfast. (According to many observations made by Adena watching her grandparents in early Alabama mornings.)
Personally, I like squirrels. I think they are cute and playful. One scraggly-tailed one my wife has named Alvin came up to me this morning and barked at me all sassy like - till my dogs came and chased him away.
Squirrels are cool. Spread the word.
Well, yes, I am a grandfather now. And 50 years old. This boy is cute as a button though. He's sharp and intense like his father too. Adena and I were blessed enough to go to Prague and visit this little "real McCoy" and his parents. I'll admit, he is the highlight of my affections for now, and the most endearing thing I've come across since the birth of my own children.
For more pictures of Vinnie you can dig through an assortment that I and Alena have each posted for public viewing.
Enjoy.

In response to the boss's request for tips to help us communicate thru email better, I Googled and searched the Net but couldn’t find anything beyond the common sense “1.) Be Concise 2.) Don’t Spam 3.) Spell correctly” kind of article. So I wrote my own and would enjoy hearing any tips that you all might have.
all data is in a RDBMS - meaning its splayed out everywhere for efficiency and
speed of collection the tools for data manipulation is everywhere - the
knowledge, the Microsoft products (from Excel to SQL Server), open source, the
network itself, ubiquity of computers)people will never cease from digging,
turning, striving to understand data from unique perspectives
conflicting data numbers
yes. numbers need to be definitive
a possible answer is the evolution of simplicity through complete
transparencythat means: instead of trying to hide complexity through middle-tier
software and access to raw data elimination, REVEAL the complexity (open source
code) and make it open and alterable and viewable by those that CAN and those
that CAN'T understand it.
It allows second-guessing to be done at the code level specifically
questioning
logic instead of the fruit of logic.
It eliminates churn driven second-guessing by those unable to understand
the complexity of the code itself.
another possible solution would be to allow the reporters of numbers to compete
and defend ala Capitalism or a Darwinian eco-system. the consumers of the data
will choose nourishing or diminishing the data providers into success or
extinction naturally - the best will survive and rise to the top.
this fear could possibly be mitigated by an "open-source" attitude management
(e.g., Wikipedia)
bottom line is that open information produces a certain amount of argument and
chaos (ala science itself)
Is it worth trying to eliminate this naturally propagated discussion with
Millions of $$ of new software, resources, and jobs?
That’s the final question.
the problem is conflicting data.
difficult to do.guesstimate twice the amount of people and time needed to do the job. (incidentally, the 2nd half of people that would be "cut" will not easily give up their purposes or jobs.)
What's the expense of fixing this assuming it can be fixed?About 15 million $ for one middle-tier software package and 7 million $ for another middle-tier software package. Plus however many new people hired with invested time to implement, herald and rollout.
I'd guesstimate about the same about of people to implement, retrain, and hireWill it solve the problem?
to do what jobs being eliminated. So in reality this is just a shift of skills
and jobs and peoples.
So if everything evens out, then the cost is
however much $ was sent out to software companies for product itself. (i.e. 15 +
7 = $22 million)
mostly not. because churn and questioning will still ensue due to the nature of
the people and the tools available and ubiquitous.
I'd have to say that the numbers were mostly already there before mid-tier
software and it will probably not be used more or less by management. ROI still
= $0.
No.What do we do?
Implement RAW DATA retrieval abilities across the board at a middle management
level through rollup into mart table pivots by an official group (Reporting
Services whether custom SQL, Business Objects, or Merced, etc.) so RAW data is
available back downwards to individual level generators (agents themselves,
their managers, and sites).
And use SAME RAW DATA rollups to report upwards to executive management
levels -ALL WHILE KEEPING PULL CODE COMPLETELY ACCESSIBLE AND VIEWABLE.
Key points being that it must be RAW and TRANSPARENTLY GENERATED. (all 3 solutions tend to NOT be.)
