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I’ve moved… My desk has once again been moved, and so I once again have moved…

I now sit behind the IT department, and the only way to get to my desk is to walk through the IT department. This leads to some interesting developments. For instance, when all of the IT guys are out to lunch (or wherever they get to) people stop by and do things like ask me for CD cases, or people mention to me that the printer’s output is of low quality. I think people believe I am a member of the IT department, which is not the case…

Not that I dislike the IT department, they serve a purpose (fighting Windows virii and security holes) but it’s not what I do, and I’m not one of them, and I can’t help you with Windows, or your email, or printing, or anything else those guys can help you with. Crazy Perl Hacking, sure, but you’ll get no General Computer Support from me dear friends…

I heard someone use the term Old Skool when referring to the method of the past of writing poorly formatted and invalid HTML.

I think the proper term is deprecated. In fact, I think the term deprecated should be used more in everyday language. For instance, any time you are talking about something from the past, that is decidedly not cool, feel free to call it deprecated…

Basically: s/old skool/deprecated/g;

Example: “Check out that punk kid with the green mohawk, man, he’s deprecated!”

I rarely watch things like CNN, or any television news really (Hello Internet!) but today I happened to see a bit, and there was a reporter in the field reporting on something, and the video was shot using a videophone!

The quality was poor, but as often is the case with breaking news, being at the right place at the right time, is more important than a polished, high-quality end product.

(Now all we need is more people to realize that they can be the reporter in the field, creating rather than consuming the media…)

I saw Scott and Dave yesterday before I left Milwaukee. Who? I’ll tell ya who…

Scott is in a band called Dashboard Confessional. (I told him they suck… I was joking… or was I? Ha!) Scott used to be in Self Denial, and Cleveland Bound Death Sentence (the original one) and probably some other bands. I’m pretty sure Scott and I were never in a band together, though he did mention that he heard one of my podcasts… Dave on the other hand was in a band with me, and that band was Hardware. (Dave was of course in Self Denial along with Scott.) Dave and I talked briefly via email a while back about releasing some of the old Milwaukee hardcore stuff we used to record. One of these days…

I should have filed this under Where Are They Now? but I didn’t get to talk to them enough to find out where they are now, besides Beans & Barley…

I’m off to the Land of Mary again… And as we all know, Maryland is for crabs…

See ya on the flipside crabby!