I know this is old, but I’m still obsessed with Trogdor (see the game). It’s like every RPG I played on my Commadore 64 when I was a kid. I wish I had come up with Trogdor so I could die knowing I contributed something great to the world.
Other Trogdor inspired games:
The origins of Trogdor:
Oh and Spiderwoman too.
Sometimes I really get depressed about the internet industry. Every 2 years, like clockwork, something changes (either the company is acquired or there is a management shake up, etc…) and I end up having to consider whether to move on or stay.
The depressing part is not the change, but losing all the equity I’ve built up. And when I say “equity”, I don’t mean monetary. I mean knowledge and trust.
For me, trust is the more important of the two because it takes a significant amount of time and work to create. When you start a new job, you have to build up trust with your immediate co-worker, bosses and ultimately the entire company. There’s no way to speed this up. Only over time can you and your co-workers began to understand how to work together and trust one another’s skills, decisions and expertise.
Same goes for the company. The company also has to build trust with its employees to do right by them. I just wish more companies would realize it’s importance. It’s something that cannot be replaced with ‘team building’ exercises, outsourced or simply ignored.
My wife’s birthday is coming up and she received this wonderful card from the VP of Global Benefits & Resources at J&J.
Give yourself one of the most important gifts of all, the gift of good health. Preventive exams can make a big difference in your life and your health. One example is the Pap smear, the potentially lifesaving test that screens for cervical cancer…
What a great thing to be reminded of on your birthday.
This actually works out for me. Anything I get her will definitely be better than this. Thanks J&J.
BTW…Also could you do me a favorite and send her a reminder of an even more embarrassing medical exam next year? I want my present to look even more awesome than this years!
Ok. I don’t hate IT, but this story Why IT hates the iPhone points to a bigger issue with IT departments and security in general. When they don’t want to support something, they fall back to the same old argument…”It’s not secure”.
First of all, security (just like your privacy) is an illusion. Most security systems rely on password protection and as you can see from the list of 10 most common passwords, there’s not much protection:
Second, could the reason that people are flocking to the iPhone simply be that it doesn’t have complicated security in place, forcing users to authenticate themselves at every step (think Window’s Vista)?
The problem here is not the iPhone, but the current state of security. Security systems are built with little regard for the people that actually have to pass through them. They are built to stop, or at least slow down, the bad guys. As a result, the value of the thing being protected is lost in the process. Just think of how air travel has been destroyed Homeland security.
Instead of blaming the user, maybe IT could start addressing security with the legitimate user in mind and not the shady guy with the black hat and mustache who just figured out the admin’s password was “Studley123“.