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Mandatory
fun, and the price of tiny dog
| May 2001
The
steep, steep price of tiny dog
 Tragically,
the trial
software I had been using to bring you this site recently
expired on cue, leaving me facing the prospect of continuing production
with a godforsaken, ancient copy of the greatly inferior
and discontinued Adobe PageMill that came bundled with my iMac
over a year ago. My unyielding snobbiness about Web software took
hold like a rabid ferret, and I was forced to pay full price
for a real copy of Dreamweaver 4. This set me back three hundred
freaking dollars. I ask the software companies who bitch about
piracy, what do you expect when you make one program a third
the cost of a whole computer? Consider cutting home users
a deal, people.
You may ask
why you are not seeing layers, javascript googlies, and site
management seminars offered on the site, since I am using
real full-featured software to create it. Basically, because those
things take a lot of time to figure out. So, I will continue
to do the equivalent of using a DC-10 to run errands in
my neighborhood.
Are
we having mandatory fun yet?
 There
is no doubt that my mood will be in ruins come Monday, however,
when I am slated to attend some type of all day work off-site
"team building" event that starts very early in the
morning in a far-away location, and lasts all day long. My great
loathing for morale-building work events is that I believe them
to be the adult equivalent to pep rallies. Although the
"dot com" spin of a lot of these articles doesn't apply
to where I work, which isn't exactly a start up (or, isn't anymore),
some
of them well-describe how tiresome the phenomenon is. Sheepish
after-the-fact note on the mandatory fun rant: Ok,
I admit... it wasn't that bad...we went to a driving range...
which was kind of..not bad,
ividuals.
And thus, it was a rant on those subjects. You may thank me later
for sparing you the details.
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