The Hive Archive

I read way too much and I visit too many random web sites. Today, I was reading the Wall Street Journal online about outsourcing the more common things in your life.

I do a search for Get Friday, one of the Indian firms mentioned, out of curiosity.

Under unusual services they have provided a couple tidbits:

• Apologizing and sending flowers and cards on their behalf to spouses or clients.
• Research on how to tie a shoe lace meant for a kid (client’s son).
• Talking to parents in our client’s stead.
• Reading bedtime stories to a young kid on phone

What kind of person thinks it would be a swell idea to have someone in India read your kid a bedtime story on the phone because they are too busy? Although, it would be fun to have everyone route their requests to a personal assistant, just to see the looks on their faces.

Wes: check out introducing pipes
Matt: “Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.”
Matt: I hear vista finally has symlinks. Wake me up when they invent mount points and finally kill drive letters
Wes: I think you can do that somehow.
Matt: yeah sure, and break everything *nerd rage*
Wes: yeah, junction point. junction points (technet)
Matt: “Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.”

Update, Wes says, if you want to know more see his blogs at:

• www.brokenbuild.com/blog/category/windows-unixism
• www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/12/11/is-there-a-windows-equivalent-of-mount