Digital Diarrhea
If the technology workers are the digital janitors of the 21st century, this week the Internet seems to have had a digital diarrhea (yes, you got this right - di·ar·rhe·a or di·ar·rhoe·a (d-r)n. - Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces). The floodgates of hell opened, the dark forces prevailed in the eternal battle between good and evil. The Yin-Yang turned blood-red. For some unknown reason the hackers of the world decided to flex their muscles and the world what they are capable of - crashed some web sites, slowed down other. Consequently a lot of highly paid executives started playing the bullshit bingo. The executives kept some very smart and extremely skilled people up all night t deal with the situation and wipe this s**t. I am not sure what the perpetrators wanted to display - rebellion, anti-establishment sentiments, cry for recogniton, or just signs of bad childhood. Whatever it is, punk has been out of style for a while - "digital" or "analog", so just drop it and move on. If you can, something creative. If not - just lounge on the couch, watch TV, get fat and happy and RIP. If you cannot think of anything worse, go get a job. Whatever it is, get on with the times and use the WC. Run the water (twice if the diarrhea is really bad), clean up after yourself and don't forget to wash your hands (Lava Sus Manos). Punk ain't coming back in style anytime soon.
In the aftermath, after all the excitement subsided I had some time to think clearly for a while, I realized that there's something really wrong with people's expectations of the Internet. It costs somwhere between $0 and $20/month to host a web site and everybody expects everything to be up and working 24x7 99.99%. If the web site is down for 30 minutes they will spend more calling the provider than they paid for service to complain. Something is just wrong - we all pay way much more than that every year for the right to drive our cars but nobody complains if the I-5 is "not available" because someone "hacked" it by causing a 10-car pile-up. We just shrug shoulders and say "traffic in Los Angeles sucks", get on the cell phones and wait for CHP to clean up the mess. So, to all customers of Internet services -- have realistic expectations -- give us all, the digital janitors, a break and wait patiently behind the yellow line for us to clean up the mess. Otherwise, we all are going to apply for jobs at CHP and LAPD, and this is a scary thought.
In the aftermath, after all the excitement subsided I had some time to think clearly for a while, I realized that there's something really wrong with people's expectations of the Internet. It costs somwhere between $0 and $20/month to host a web site and everybody expects everything to be up and working 24x7 99.99%. If the web site is down for 30 minutes they will spend more calling the provider than they paid for service to complain. Something is just wrong - we all pay way much more than that every year for the right to drive our cars but nobody complains if the I-5 is "not available" because someone "hacked" it by causing a 10-car pile-up. We just shrug shoulders and say "traffic in Los Angeles sucks", get on the cell phones and wait for CHP to clean up the mess. So, to all customers of Internet services -- have realistic expectations -- give us all, the digital janitors, a break and wait patiently behind the yellow line for us to clean up the mess. Otherwise, we all are going to apply for jobs at CHP and LAPD, and this is a scary thought.
posted by IvanB at 11:59 PM
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