Random chaotic thoughts for April 20, 2008

People love to hold on to certain things or activities, based on a lot of different factors

• familiar things hold great value
• new things need to meet some internal to the observer standard, be mulled in the mind, filtered through the life experience filter (the how does this compare to other things factor)
• somethings are never really let go, even when they are discarded or gone

I was thinking in these terms over the last several days about a lot of subjects, to include:

1. My dog that got cancer and died in October- when I say died she was euthanized with my consent, a decision I have second guessed ever since even though several veterinarians have told me it was the decent thing to do since her cancer was terminal, and in a manner of days if not hours. i miss this dog incredibly, she was my constant companion, and I cry frequently when I dwell on looking at pictures of her. I think its the shock of losing her so suddenly, of having to make a dreaded decision and being confronted with the facts of life, that all living things end life, her in 12 short years.
   
2. I love our new dog, another Scottie, and as she matures I see that she is VERY different from PeeWee, and is quite rowdy, pushy, loves to play and is afraid of new things PeeWee challenged with abandon - I think I prefer the way puppy is, although we still have to work on getting out of the car. She is absolutely terrified of getting out, but eager to climb in. Like i said, different.
3. Yahoo 360- I am really frustrated by Yahoo's total lack of communication regarding 360. Posting something for the community every 4 or 5 months is not a good way to keep customers. What really ticks me off is that I have almost written 360 off, and I personally found that it was and is the one place I really enjoyed putting blogs like this, sharing comments, friends, pictures. As I stated yesterday, i have trail balloons on at least a half dozen other sites, and I still like 360 best. Some people commented that Blogger would be good, but after going back and reestablishing my blog there, i realized I moved to 360 because I wanted more, and found that at 360. So i really would have been happy to put up with 360 for a long time, if Yahoo had put the effort into it, I thing we all would. But I know a lot of people here have gotten too fed up and left, going to the other side called Multiply...
4. gasoline and fuels- in a survey at work about the biggest challenge to IT in the next decade i said energy, and got some curious looks, as others thought it was bandwidth, or processor power, or whatever...I said that because as oil and fossil fuels go up, and the ability to harness available energy, like wind power, solar, tidal generation, has a lag time(due to construction time, infrastructure improvement,etc) big IT users will need to consider conversion of equipment to more efficient operations. Not only because of the energy used by the equipment, but the resources required to mitigate the BTU's released by the hardware in the form of heat, and the need to cool that equipment. A recent day where the temperature hit 90 at my work resulted in the high speed digital print server equipment shutting down, because the ambient temperature in the production room was 80. The AC system has still in winter heat mode, so cooling never came on. After discussion with the plant engineers, they became aware that not only the IT server room needs to be cool year round, all the server areas need to be...my life as IT project consultant is never dull.

Coffee can be good and bad- its nice to have a cup, but the place I go isn't called the Jitter Bean for nothing
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Have a great day, and remember Love Laugh and Live!