Year: 2010
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Common Search Terms
Interesting. Here’s a chart of the most common search terms that land people on this site. Clearly a lot of people dissatisfied with AT&T, but at least I’m not getting as many of the goat blowing ones these days… Read more
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Aside
Interesting article in USA Today, today, on Medicare/Medicaid (i.e. health benefit) fraud, and new measures – including fingerprinting – being proposed to support it. What’s interesting is that this is fraud by the providers and not the consumers – billing (the Government) for procedures not performed, equipment not used, etc.). This is a strong argument for government-controlled healthcare. Britain’s NHS may not be perfect, but a controlling organization that drives for lower costs not higher profits may not be a bad thing. Read more
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Asset Retirement vs. Depreciation
Maybe it’s an age thing, but recently I’ve noticed that a lot of my fellow workers (or at least the full-time employees) are starting to talk about how long they’ve got until retirement. Like seriously talking about it, even though it’s 11 years away or something. They’ve probably got countdown apps on their iPhones that wake them up every morning: “You have 4,000 days left to retirement”. I guess that’s what comes of having a decent, company-subsidized pension scheme and a retirement plan. My retirement plan is simple: Work until I’m no longer employable and then kill myself. I tell… Read more
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They should rename it the Hindrance-Desk
As Training Lead, one of my responsibilities is to provide User Procedures for the system we’re implementing. Because users have a nasty habit of taking my official global User Procedures and changing them to match what they want to do, I publish them in Adobe PDF format. And because I generate all of the User Procedures out of OnDemand, I just get OnDemand to publish directly to PDF, which it will happily do if you have the full version of Adobe Suite installed. In order to meet licensing requirements, here at my current client if you need a piece of… Read more