[	Tags	|	convention, san diego	]
[	mood	|	mischievous	]

After a long Convention Season, take Shore leave in San Diego

Conjecture 2008

Crowne Plaza

San Diego, CA

Sept. 26-28, 2008

GOH: David Drake

Registration rates are $40.00 for adults, 
$20.00 for Librarians/Military/Teachers with Proper ID, 
$15.00 for High School Students, 
$1/year for Children 6-15 years of age, 
Free for Kids Under 5.

Room block closes on August 26...booking code is VII (as in 'seven'). You can do it on line or call in at: 1-619-297-1101.

[	Tags	|	stupidity, work	]
[	mood	|	amused	]

So my office (HR) and the IT department for a County in PA where I work has decided to install an IM system. For some strange but very normal reason for them they went with Pandion. Never heard of it, wikipedia describes it as "Pandion is an XMPP/Jabber client, developed by Dries Staelens and Sebastiaan Deckers. Although the maintainers claim that it is still actively developed, there hasn't been a release, update, or public announcement since January 2006." and “As of spring 2008, Pandion must be considered abandonware.” see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandion_%28software%29 But wait it gets better the website for the program http://www.pandion.be/ is blocked by the County's net nanny.

But even better still are the emoticons available they included I kid you not death, skull, angel, devil, dragon, etc. see below:

And this is a government work program. You tax dollars at work.

So far no one in my department is using it. I think they are only using it track us; it logs you on automatically when you log into the network and everyone on your buddy list see it. And logs all conversations on a central server.