malus's Journal: Another Day, Another Dollar

Blah. Another one bites the dust.

Dropped $38 between beer & dinner, some McEwans Ale and my favorite pulled pork from Tangelos.

Oh, and Darvocet. Praise be to darvocet. It's numbing the pain in my finger.

Spent most of the day working on the drilldown-subscriptions replacement. Fun with xml. I need to get into the xml dom, and loop through the bugger so i can repopulate/expand the tree during document edit phase. I need to finish this wednesday, because it's taking too long.

I guess i'm just waiting for the shoe to drop. The whole layoff thing is still lurking.

Still don't know if I'm going to KC to do battle with the Kana/Interwoven folks, but I know it's something that has to be done. I'm really getting violent about this BS. Kana's probably got a great product, as does interwoven. Interwoven doesn't seem to be nearly as arrogant as Kana, so i tend to cut them a little slack. but Jesus. Kana's IQ product just does EVERY damned thing right out of the box. It smells the air, and tells you if it is going to rain, for God's sakes.

How many layoffs didn't have to happen? All of this money just tossed away, thrown to this company promising some panacea, some kind of one-stop-fix-all for our corporate data problems. Yeah, granted, i can empathize with the mangagement. They were told "here's a wad of cash, now go find us a product that does XY and Z all at the same time".... it just DOESN'T work that way.

The same people that can't figure out how to work MS Word are making multi-million dollar decisions based on how much ink is on a 3-pane foldout product brochure. Ridiculous.