Off: IT Manager Evolution

New Manager


  10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
  20 END

Middle Manager

  mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
  Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello, world."?
  I need it by tomorrow.
  ^D

Senior Manager

  % zmail jim
  I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.

Chief Executive

  % letter
  letter: Command not found.
  % mail
  To: ^X ^F ^C
  % help mail
  help: Command not found.
  % damn!
  !: Event unrecognized

  % logout

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Off-topic: Political rubbish

Probably I did not mention here, in my blog, that I grown up a little bit more and become interested in politics. The reason for this was war in Georgia as I had already planned a trip to Tbilisi. The news about war was kinda suprising, but I had to follow in order to decide whether cancel my trip in October.

As it appeared after 2 weeks of following the events, probably it's easier to cancel the trip, loose money and gain more safety :) However, the interest to global politics did not dissapear. The fact that I opened to my self just in a few days or week was that a dirty games are played just in front of the world's eyes, but 'independent' global mass media was reluctant. Not all, not everywhere, not all the time, but most of the time. It was like you are reading the news and you don't get what's going on in reality. I became very dissapointed by this fact as I trully believed that politics is more transperant, clear and less corrupted then 'in our yard'. However, I was really shocked. In case if you are the person who perceives all information coming from mass media as a real thing, true and only true as our global democracy sure doesn't lie to it's people (and there such people), then you are stuck: you become an ideal citizen which current democracy is trying to form. Chinese are very good example of citizens that current government would like to see: silent, hard-working and 'eating' all the stuff that is given to them without questioning.

However, if you are an advanced user (usually inteligent ones) and the questions like 'that's too simple' or 'that's absurd' come to your mind while reading/watching news, you may start wondering what's in the world is going on and where is the truth, real motives. The truth is hidden or it's there, but hidden under some other more harsh events (war, terrorism). So, what's the point :) and it's quite funny actually, as I found a company, Stratfor, that is selling already filtered news with some analisys of event done by professionals, probably constantly tracking events in the world. That's an interesting situation of doing double job: somebody is paying the money to hide something, the other are getting the money for revealing something that is hidden. And that is called free-market :) Nice...

Amsterdamas

Vakar vakare apturejau garbe susipazinti su izymiuoju Amsterdamu. Apturejau ir ispudziu, pvz einant gatve jei ir uzuodi duma (kuri siaip daznai uzuodi palyginus), tai tikrai ne cigareciu. Dar pasirodo zoles ir grybu legalizavimas pasireiskia parduotuvytese pavadinimu Coffeeshop - neitarciau net.. Ir aisku, raudonuju zibintu kvartalas su darbininkem stovinciom tiesiai pries baznycia - yra kazkas awesome.

O siaip zmones vaziuoja i miesto pub'us pagert su dviraciais, priparkuoja masyviai salia tu pub'u, geria kazkodel lauke, nors jame tikrai ne karsta, ir kitaip linksminasi :) Po Briuselio aisku viskas kitom spalvom pasidengia. Galima isvest butu tokia formule: gyveni Briuseli, tusinies Amsterdame :) Ne tai kad Briuseli nepasitusinti, bet visgi Amsterdame viskas kur kas gyvibingiau siuo klausimu.

P.S. Vis galvoju kaip cia bus su pshekais. Ju dar cia nemaciau, bet buvau dar Briuselio metro sutikus moteriske su dviem vaikais... Sitie tai nekalti avinieliai, kadangi iskrendant dar is Nicos teko uzsiraut besi-checkin-inant ant psheku jaunos sheimyneles, kurie apie 30min uzlaike visa eile zmoniu.

Update: Taigi - pshekai ir cia veisiasi. Sedziu as sau ant suoliuko ramiai, dziaugiuos geru oru ir pan, ateina mergina ir atsiseda salia. Pasedejus, nusprendzia paskambint kazkam ir... pavaro pshekishkai! OMG... as ka medum patepta ar ka...

Briuselis

Labai buitini pavadinima ikaliau :) Ir postas sis labai buitinis. Esu Briuseli ir ka tik grizau po pasivaiksciojimo po ji, trukusio vos ne 6 valandas. Aisku su sustojimais atsigert alaus ar pavalgyt :) Siaip miestukas toks failas, jaukus, primena labai Vilniu, kuris kokius 3 kartus didesnis. Orai irgi Vilnietiski tokie, apsiniauke, kartais pragiedruliai, kaip priklauso. 11-16 laipsniu, kaip visalaik tokiu metu laiku :) Lapu pilna jau ant keliu. Ruduo... zodziu, salstu as cia, baisu. Nosis bega, kojom salta, laukiu kol i siltus krastus grisiu.

Dar teko nosi ikist i Haaga porai valandu (kitos valandos buvo praleistos ofise arba kelioneje). Tai ispudziai tokie, kad vairuot jei tektu - nzn kaip gautus, dviraciai ant kiekvieno kampo, kiekvienam veidrodi. Eini gatve ir neapsiziurejes ant dviraciu uzsirauni pastoviai. Bet uztad kaip juokingai atrodo zmoniu veido israiskos vairuojanciu dviracius - tiesiog kaifas! Sedau i kavine lauke alaus gert ir tiesiog spoksot - fantastique! Prisidaziusios moteriskes ant dviraciu, mergos rasancios sms'us, senukes bei senukai, diplomatai su kostiumu ir dideliu portfeliu pilnu popieriu. Zodziu ivairove didziule! O dar... kokia anglu kalba maloni... po prancuzu tai kaip anglijoj jauciuos :) Aisku, orai velgi nedziugina, ir dviraciai blasko, Briuseli ramiau kazkaip. Aini sau ramiai senamiescio gatve ir bastais taip... :)

P.S. Dar prisiminiau.. teko ir vel uzsirauti ant psheku pacioj netikeciausioj vietoj. Radau Haagoj jau vieta kur alaus atsigert, stoviu ziuriu, o cia pshekai kazka pshekina viduri kelio kur tramvaju vaziuoja ir dviraciu banda! Na susinervinau neistveriau... kiek gi galima, kiekvienoj kelionei ant ju uzsiraut!