Saturday, July 23, 2005

Tech support? Maybe "Back Support"!

Keep in mind this is in the physical qualifications section for a technical support job:

Certificates/Licenses -Physical Job Requirements - Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Examples include executive assistant, bank loan officer, and acctg clerk

-I don't think I can pick up a bank loan officer.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Hat's off to mourn the passing of OS/2


20 Years ago IBM launched OS/2 Warp. They had a decent advertising campaign. There were even TV ads. Unfortunately a little company called Microsoft had managed to get it's revolutionary Windows 95 software into almost every PC in the market. This left IBM out in the cold trying to convince everyone that you needed to go to the store and purchase a copy to replace and/or sit alongside Win 95. Besides Mac this was the best alternative to Windows the end-user could afford. Truly OS/2 offered a great alternative. Most Dos and Windows 3.1 software would operate on it. Now IBM is recommending Linux. So long OS/2. Full ahead, Warp factor 2, into oblivion.