Vendor with agenda whispers sweet “I will solve all your backup problems with these new storage arrays of ours” nothings to senior manager with no knowledge of, or inclination to ask those who know the backup environment…
Senior manager instructs storage manager with no real knowledge of or inclination ever to use said vendors storage products, or indeed ever waste his beloved spindles on backup, to “Engage this vendor to report on our backup problems”
Manager to poor unsuspecting NetBackup engineer with 10+ years major enterprise experience, running a nearly 900 client, 8000 backup job a night environment with typically less than 0.5% failure rate: “What’s with all these backup problems we have?”
I just absolutely fucking love it.
I see a couple of glasses of wine in my future tonight!
Marvel at the astute, insightful, devastating counter arguments from Blindboy of the Rubberbandits
Rejoice in the new found new found infamy of the “Anthony” character
Insider tip: the exterior church scenes are from Castletroy, Limerick (I should know my little boy was baptised there). No idea where the interior scenes are from.
Really, really impressed with the well reasoned answers from Blindboy. Daycent!
After reading posts from the likes of Shawn Blancs on task management (“A Sledgehammer Called OmniFocus”), I guiltily went back to my neglected Toodledo.com account.
In the past I had read David Allens “Getting Things Done” and purchased the toodledo.com subscription to getting going on this. Only problem, I don’t particularly like web apps. I prefer the zip of a desktop app. So with this in mind, I thought I would have look at the field:
One big criticism of evernote though… very hard to paste a table into tumblr! This table came in using Evernote > Export to HTML > MarsEdit > Paste HTML Source.
Incase you haven’t guessed by now, I ended up using Evernote. I am not religious about it yet, but it’s working well.
” and purchased the toodledo.com subscription to getting going on this. Only problem, I don’t particularly like web apps. I prefer the zip of a desktop app. So with this in mind, I thought I would have look at the field:
