Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Worst Album Covers... Ever Saw this on Metafilter. Click image to see more examples. 11:14:12 AM    comment []

Crippled by paranoia. I work in one department outside of the central information services bureau.  They recently offloaded some applications to us, for me to maintain. They are all java web applications in various states of disrepair that reflect the learning curve of a now departed java developer.  These applications are subject to mysterious problems where they are working one day and broken the next day.  For example, one of them silently switched to inserting data into a test database after happily populating a production database for months. I know this is bullshit, but a voice is telling me that someone is doing it on purpose.  A secret war to prove that development of applications should only be done in MIS?  The acts of a disgruntled former employee?  An outside hacker that has access to our servers but delights only in making insignificant changes that only affect me? Paranoia is the height of self-centeredness.  The belief that people are even thinking about you let alone working hard to sabotage you. I give voice to this here even though there is probably a reasonable explanation.  But boy, it makes me tense. They had to cancel some exams today because I couldn't get the web application that administers exams working. 10:58:04 AM    comment []