Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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Today, I watched the movie The Rookie. I'm not a big movie watcher, but I usually like to watch sport movies. Oddly, I hadn't seen this one, even though it's 6+ years old. It was great! I'm 39, with a sports enthused 7-year-old son and dreamed of playing the majors when I was a kid, so there was lot's of strings for this movie to pull on me. I guess this movie was about me, except that I throw 96 kph instead of mph (miles per hour). This movie has made my regular rotation, so if I see it in the TV guide, then I'll watch it again. It's right up there with Fields of Dreams, The Natural and For Love of the Game.
When you don't handle your problems, they inevitably snowball on you. For instance, if you have problem employees and you don't straighten them out, then others that work with the problem employee take notice. They realize, they can behave inappropriately as well and need not worry about getting fired. As well, your good employees will become frustrated with having to fix the problems created by the bad ones. Eventually, all your good employees quit and you are left with all bad employees.
The problem is easily rectified. Fire one bad employee and you'll notice an improvement in everybody else. Your good employees will feel like you are helping them and your bad employees may decide to become good employees fearing the axe.
It's about being good managers. Unfortunately these days, most managers have never taken a management course and simply don't know any better.
If you haven't looked at the address bar, then here's a surprise for you. I just moved the blog to its own domain and a brand new web-server. I'm still working out the bugs caused by the move. If you stumble into any problems, then send me an email and I'll fix ASAP.
The new web-server is a dedicated Windows server from Go Daddy! I've been so impressed with Go Daddy's domain administration, that I'm also buying dedicated servers from them now. The setup of the box was ridiculously tight. ASPX was disabled. Write access to the Inetpub from the ASP user was also disabled. But, it works!
I use to follow American politics, but of late, it's all turned into a big joke. Here we have the most hated presidential administration in the history of America and they look 50-50 to get re-elected with their new candidate. It's not because Americans want to vote for the Republicans, it's more that the Democrats have proved themselves to be pathetic. At this point, I'm ready to put my money on McCain. I'm most convinced of this when I read liberal blogs.
Do you realize how many of McCain's fund raising team have quit because they did things that compromised the campaign? Remember Larry Craig? The hand under the bathroom stall guy? This guy was an early McCain lobbyist and backer. Now we're finding out a bunch of McCain advisers are quitting because ... well ... McCain has long promised not to have lobbyist on this team. You'd think the advisers would've know McCains stance before they joined ... but then ... we already new the Republicans stood for deception. And this guy stands a change of winning? Why?
Because Obama and Hillary are bigger jokers yet!
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Today, my son started in a new hockey league. He's 7 yrs old and the players in the league range from 7 to 11, so he's quite small compared to many of the players. His coach is extremely competitive, even though this is suppose to be a fun league. He double-shifted the bigger/better players and played the rest very little. Some players played more than half of the game, while my son played 5 shifts and less than 8 minutes of the 30. I wasn't too happy when my son played his 1st shift 7 minutes into the game. I can't believe he has the nerve to coach like that in a fun league for kids.
Here's another joke support email. I found out that a potential advertiser tried to create an ad but BlogAds didn't work. I looked into it and it turns out that the BlogAds website barely works anymore. I sent them an email explaining that I would get more advertisers, if they could reduce the number of errors on their website. They responded...
Our site is best optimized in Firefox, so I would suggest using that browser.
Unfortunately, 70% of the planet uses Internet Explorer. And their website is not best viewed in Firefox, it's only viewed in Firefox, because it barely works in other browsers. BlogAds is likely losing tons of business for themselves and their publishers because they found religion and refuse to show their QA staff how to use Internet Explorer.
I always hear Mac users telling the world how much easier it is to use then a PC. When I ask what exactly is easier, I can never get a straight answer other than "It's SO COOL!" In my other life, I get emails like this all day.
i cannot use the report abuse buttons because i am a mac. user.
Is that it? Macs are easier to use because nothing actually works in a Mac, so what remains must be easier? What the user was referring to is the mailto hyperlink with a &subject= appendage. The worst part is that my code is full of IF SAFARI DONT ADD THIS FEATURE. About 5% of my users use the Mac. And yet most all of the bug reports are Safari specific. And don't be fooled. These aren't bugs in my code. These are feature unavailable in Safari that have been in IE and Firefox for years, sometimes a decade.