I seem to keep learning this lesson over and over again:
Too much FRANTIC multitasking means that work does not get done reliably. Focus required.
By the time 2:00pm or so rolled around, I felt like I had been bowled over. I don’t know what happened, but I am so tired it’s not even funny. I was fairly spunky this morning, but I’m just exhausted. I couldn’t concentrate… was practically narcoleptic… and I don’t have a clue why.
What am I doing wrong?
Aquatix was asking on a post or two ago about, “How is deprecating webdav a good thing?”
The problem with webdav is that while webdav is meant to be a standard, I’ve rarely met a client that handled it properly. I would also point out that some of these problems were not implementations with the client, but implementations with the server side and the relation to the client.
The new model in Exchange 2007 is to deprecate webdav support in favor of web services (via SOAL/XML, etc.). This is a boon for clients because it uses a standardized model to feed data and the response is just XML. How badly can a client screw that up? That means the server-side is no longer an equation in poor Exchange support.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
I hope the Evolution developers are sitting up and paying attention to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 is intended to be a bridge toward a web services model for communicating with the server for all functions external to the system. WebDAV is deprecated. I’ve seen it, it’s true, it’s exciting, and it’s a boon for Evolution and other webDAV clients that currently suck.
One blogger talks about it here.
(info: this post was started several days ago)
There’s so much more that can be said about Microsoft and the mistakes they are continuing to make. In my experience, product quality is going down… regression bugs are coming back into some products (Exchange 2003 and clustering!)… many enterprise products are a mishmash of spaghetti code… argh, it’s a tough time to be an enterprise admin with Microsoft products.
There’s been a renaissance of Linux here in my house, led by the Mac issue and Not Having Money. I intend to replace all of the workstations with Macs, but in the meantime, I’ve dual-booted my system with Ubuntu Edgy and Windows. Now here’s the kicker: I’ve not booted into Windows in about three weeks, maybe longer. Taitai’s system is still on Windows because Linux is pretty rough around the edges, but she will be the first recipient of a new Mac when the first one is actually purchased.
Wow. 6:38am. I’m lucky I got up – I didn’t go to bed until about 1:20am this morning. 5 hours of sleep and the day looks to be long on scheduling. There are 9 meetings today, most of them back to back… and they walk all over my lunch hour. It’s going to be rough, keep me in your thoughts.
The subject of taking better care of yourself has come up again recently. Jennifer blogged about having headaches and the need to take better care of herself. I too need to do the same. I’ve said it countless times before (but you’ll have to rely on memory since I wiped all of that out in the old blog) – I need to slow down, stop working so much and try to keep my mind off of work all the time.
Thanks to g1powermac I have discovered www.bash.org.
They have the finest collection of IRC quotes ever. NSFW mostly, but please do check it out when not being monitored. I am crying with laughter.
The lights are up, but we still need more. All in all, the display looks much more balanced this year than years past. I also like the auto-timer we bought, since turning the lights on or off always seemed to be a chore.
Why is it that the littlest of chores seem to be the most painful?
Anyway, we’re gonna be out hitting the malls again today. Too much to do, too little time. Oh, and BunBun has a nasty-ass cold. Poor little guy. We’re doing what we can and he’s being a good sport about it, but I know it frustrates him. At least now that he’s older, he deals with it well.
So what do you do with a day off when the system still manages to go down?
Well, you spend most of the day on the phone, honestly. That gets old. We had the day planned to spend running around town knocking out personal business that has been put aside for far too long. It was little things like – setting up bank accounts, scoping out schools for BunBun, stuff like that. But still, somehow… we end up on the phone together.
