February 16th, 2007
DST Insanity
This is a new syndrome. It's temporary insanity caused by the upcoming changes to Daylight Saving Time, known affectionately as DST2007. There are 4 weekends (aka change management windows) between now and D(ST)-day). See The guys over at Technology Rage for a countdown clock.
But some normally sane people have slipped over the edge. Kathleen McGivney posts some novel strategies for dealing with the changes, and even links to a guy with one of the most notable ideas yet. Chris Miller has provided some really great podcasts on DST, but has clearly gone over the edge while facing his world-wide data center upgrade, and has conspired with Andy P (a normally quiet, helpful type) to come up with some novel solutions to frustrating scenarios.
I personally like the idea of Approximate Freetime Lookup, and if I could get my Blackberry Desktop Manager software installed, I'd play that game.
I have a theory that the reason Chris is headed to Las Vegas this weekend is so he can avoid clocks all together for a while. Anyone who has ever been there knows that there are no clocks in that town, therefore DST rules don't apply.
I myself am fine. Note my new poem as an example. Again, this was created by taking the secret email messages I get in my ISP account and formatting them correctly in order to de code the poem.
see sophia on prefab
and hairy and serve
see goldenrod on impose some eat it
collage some approximate some desideratum on cufflink
curium not westernmost
be darn it bergamot
it's leona not crosswalk !
See, I'm fine - Good luck with your weekend tests and upgrades - let me know how it goes!
