Ducks. Lined. Up.
I’ve just finished my first week at my new job. Well, technically I was at work, but actually, I was at a training event for the Sales team. Except for when I was at IBM, I don’t think I’ve ever started a job and been provided with a proper orientation to the company. Until now.
It was just my luck that I would start a new job at the same time as the entire company came together for its annual meeting. Wow. Wow. Wow. When you say the word three times quickly, it loses its meaning; so consider how blown away I must have been for the word to have retained its meaning over the week. These guys are serious. These guys have a plan. These guys are going to get *bleep* done.
Behind the superficial organization of pretty corporate branding lay a much deeper organization. Most technology startups (or at least the ones I’ve been a part of) have an annoying tendency to try to do everything; they see all the possibilities of the technology, and fail to focus. Not a problem here.
By far the most impressive feature of the week of training was not what the company was going to do, but the forcefulness with which it had decided not to do certain things. That may not sound very intelligent to an outsider (“Excuse me, but don’t companies only make money if they actually do something?”), but when you’ve been on the inside of the “what’s the product this week” machine, you appreciate it. It shows focus.
Meanwhile, in other exciting things – I met Bruce Schneier at his book-signing at Kepler‘s book store. Let the hero-worship begin!
Man, you need to get a real job. Work at Microsoft. That is where the real shiznit is. You need to also get a life. Who has time to just spend hours on the internet talking to himself? That is what you are essentially doing. No one really reads this, I hope you know. When was the last time you got on the internet and said, “Gee, I think I might go look at random people’s blogs?” Not often, I can tell you that. You have better things to do, and so do I. So bugger off. Freaking loser.
I love trolls. Their posts usually go something like this: “You suck. This site is such a waste of time. No one reads it. You suck.”
It’s particularly funny in this case. After a quick review of my web server logs. The poster arrived at the site after performing a Google search for shiznit, arriving at this page, then going here, here, and here. And spent a leisurely 15 minutes doing it.
If no one reads this site, why did the poster waste his or her time reading it? Seems a little contradictory.
Figure it out: this site is for my friends, family, as well as people who bought my book or share the same general interests. If it doesn’t appeal to you, you’re free to move on – I wouldn’t want you wasting your precious time commenting on how much the site sucks.
I’ll answer any legitimate complaints, or even admit when I’ve erred in what I’ve said on the site. But that requires a poster to have a coherent complaint and the courage to leave your real email address.
[On further review, it appears the user entered a URL for a web site that closely resembles Home Star Runner’s URL – could this be comment spam? I have changed the URL accordingly]