Whew!

Today has been a whirlwind for the Killer Robot . . . A quick recap:

Meeting @ 9 - It would be hurtful to the Killer Robot's career to recant the specific details of this (and the ensuing) meeting. However, I feel it would be irresponsible for me to not inform you, my loyal readers, of the events. The meeting @ 9 revolved around a specific task, one that must be performed in order to identify a computer on our network, one that in fact, is a unique identifier for the machine . . . Anyway, you can't imagine my exicitement in having this meeting for the seventh time to discuss how to "distinguish" one computer from another. If you're reading this, and you have some sort of IT background, I'm sorry to bore you with this material. It's just that a certain manager of mine still doesn't understand the concept of "distinguishing" a computer when it it brought on the network. And, I'm fairly sure that post meeting he still doesn't understand, as he pointed out, immediately following the meeting, that the process was exactly what he understood it to be. Perhaps an illustration is in order.

Lets say, to identify the computer you're building, you, and a group of qualified colleagues, decide to sequentially name the machines fred1, fred2, fred3, and so forth. And, for illustration purposes, let's say that this is posted in people's cubes, and circulated via e-mails, and generally understood by everyone (you think) who needs to understand it, particularly your manager, who was in attendance when "fredxx" was agreed upon. And then, to understand the Killer Robot's perspective, imagine that your manager walks up to you to ask you to look at a certain computer's configuration. And you, needing to connect to the computer in question, ask for the machine's unique identifier. And suppose your manager replies, completely seriously, "17roger."

You've now attended the meeting with me.