2004-03-09
Security
One of the cultural differences I am noticing between the old Big Government Agency and the nwe BGA is the security of things. The new one is much more hyper about, say, wearing your security badge on you everywhere you go in the building, no matter how short a trip it is (the old one supposedly cared but in practice did not). The old one, however, was much more hyper about computer security - they had even locked out the IE controls so you couldn't change little things like whether links were underlined (I hate automatically underlined links, it drives me crazy and makes the web page look ugly as all shit - I always set mine to hover underline when you run the mouse over the link). Here I'm treated more like an adult and allowed to set things up on my own.
So, they just gave us new desktops (not a new monitor, but a new desktop, keyboard, mouse), and we upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Pro. Well, evidently they left the Windows Messenger feature enabled on the desktop (it pops up when you run Outlook for whatever stupid reason), AND I can get it to log in to my legalmoose@hotmail account.
Which makes me wonder if I can put other chat programs on. Not that I want to, I have enough distractions as it is without needing people sending me stuff via IM at work (I can see it now, "Why is your computer blinking, who is 'hotstud123,' and what's that picture of a nekkid man doing there?" says the boss... *shudder*), but it just boggles my mind that they left a chat program installed AND unblocked on the network.
So, they just gave us new desktops (not a new monitor, but a new desktop, keyboard, mouse), and we upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Pro. Well, evidently they left the Windows Messenger feature enabled on the desktop (it pops up when you run Outlook for whatever stupid reason), AND I can get it to log in to my legalmoose@hotmail account.
Which makes me wonder if I can put other chat programs on. Not that I want to, I have enough distractions as it is without needing people sending me stuff via IM at work (I can see it now, "Why is your computer blinking, who is 'hotstud123,' and what's that picture of a nekkid man doing there?" says the boss... *shudder*), but it just boggles my mind that they left a chat program installed AND unblocked on the network.
Politics as Usual
Why is it that I always seem to get introduced to Republican power-brokers and invited to Republican-dominated events and never to the Democratic ones (since I am a registered Democrat)? Do I give off some kind of conservative vibe? Bizarre.