{"id":510,"date":"2004-10-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=297"},"modified":"2004-10-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T06:00:00","slug":"if-i-had-a-dolla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"if i had a dolla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hola.<\/p>\n<p \/>This morning I did an interview with a radio station in Toronto that&#8217;s about four years slow in discovering <a href='http:\/\/www.404lab.com' target='x'>404lab<\/a>. I had to brush up quick on my 404 facts because it&#8217;s been so very long; I worried that my knowledge had become outdated.<\/p>\n<p \/>After about 2.5 seconds of intense preparation, I came to the conclusion that not much has changed. There are two things of note, and they both revolve around Google:<\/p>\n<p \/>&#8211; Since Google 0wnz0rs the search engine market, they have the ability to make a huge impact on this issue. I don&#8217;t know that they have, but they could, if they were so inclined.<\/p>\n<p \/>&#8211; The &#8216;cached page&#8217; feature is the best Google invention <i>ever<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p \/>So that&#8217;s your 404 news for today.<\/p>\n<p \/>The thing I was reminded of with radio interviews is that their hold music is the broadcast itself. So when you&#8217;re sitting there waiting to go on, you&#8217;re listening to them talking about you. Mispronouncing your name and such. And then all of a sudden you&#8217;re tossed into it. It&#8217;s bizarre.<\/p>\n<p \/>Yesterday, my financial advisor (me) decided I should postpone woodshop another quarter and instead contribute the several hundred dollars I&#8217;d spend on lumber for my bed to my future financial security. I figured out that if I contribute the maximum to the new IRA that used to be my 401(k) by the end of the year, it&#8217;ll be almost as if I never stopped adding to it when I got laid off 18 months ago. And here I was thinking I was badly screwing up my retirement income. That rules.<\/p>\n<p \/>Also, browsing through prospectuses (prospecti?) turns me on.<\/p>\n<p \/>What else? Oh yeah. Here&#8217;s my newest dumb trick. Type &#8216;wordy&#8217; in that box over on the left and hit enter. Awwyeah. OK, I know I&#8217;m the only one who digs that stuff. Shut up.<\/p>\n<p \/>This is my new favorite work scenario, which has happened way too often lately:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<li>I ask the db admin for minor changes. I could easily make them myself, but I respect his role.<\/li>\n<li>He gets pissed at the project manager for requesting changes when she doesn&#8217;t understand the system-wide implications*.<\/li>\n<li>He tells me he should quit because he&#8217;s no longer the right guy for the job.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m left unable to fix the problem. Perhaps I should write in my bug report: <i>will be corrected when you get the right guy for the job<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>This is why I tend to be a lone gun. Maybe only 50% greater efficiency than a team, but 100% fewer interpersonal politics.<\/p>\n<p \/>Oh, he just apologized. Huh.<\/p>\n<p \/>Whatever.<br \/>Jenni<\/p>\n<p \/>* If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase &#8216;system-wide implications&#8217;, I wouldn&#8217;t be waiting to buy my truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola. This morning I did an interview with a radio station in Toronto that&#8217;s about four years slow in discovering 404lab. 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