Rick KeirRick Keir - LiveJournal.comthat about sums it up- March 31, 2008 Co-worker: They have enough money to get off the ground, but not enough money to fly.He was describing the plight of many departments, where there's enough money to get an IT project started, like building a web application, but not enough money to pay for ongoing maintenance. I still hear from departmental IT staff who say that Windows 95 is still necessary to support their department, because they have no money to get away from old DOS-based applications that don't run on anything after...http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/137617.html overheard- March 28, 2008 Vendor, explaining how they came to add a scripting interface to their product: Then we were trying to sell this to the military, and they asked us if we could openize the product.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/137238.html overheard- March 26, 2008 Overheard, at an actually very well done product demo:Q: Is that freewareA: No, that's big bucks ware.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/136962.html an odd dream- March 10, 2008 Sunday morning, I was dreaming that I was in the house I grew up in, but with mostly the neighbors from the street I live on now. We were all outside because the old Donohue house was being moved by blimp to a new location, while the family followed behind in some sorrt of biplane. I got some great photos of the house sailing through the sky, with the happy family doing circles around it and underneath and above it.It was a bummer to wake up and realize that these were not, in fact, real photos.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/136944.html |