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• Monday, May 19, 2008 07:25 PM

  @LWM, WT (& Cocktailhag)

  Oddly enough, AT&T (or AT&T Wireless, anyway) were clients of mine. Nobody knows de troubles ...

  LWM brings up the other side of the equation ... vendors. Vendors are liars. It's embedded in the game; they sell functionality that does not exist, will sometimes never exist, because the technology will leapfrog them and the company will collapse if they do not (or so goes the long-held rationale). They count on things to get sorted in the implementation phase, when the client has too much skin in the game to pull out.

  Couple the basic data issues with the lies the vendor tells, and the lies the internal sponsor tells him/herself and their oversight committee, and the misshapen reality the project manager inherits and the lies they have to tell to ever finish the project, and THEN imagine that going on with your national security file ... and tell me it isn't time to start drinking heavily ...

  THEN bring in the erosion of print media Cocktailhag has noted with some care here and in many threads (and which brings us back on topic) where one could theoretically investigate and disclose any of this. Forget radio or TV, it's too complex for them to even touch. But in print, where complex issues have been perpetually dumbed down and segmented out by facile notions of who the audience is? Which reporter is going to pitch that story and be given the time and budget to work it through all the necessary angles? And to be fair, how many readers are going to stick with a 12,000 word feature or a series about this ... and whaddawe do (don't ask me, I will have started that heavy drinking)?

  Next, on the Gloom Channel ...

  PS - LWM, I honestly did not know you were RonPauliac. Is it true you have a son in 1/75?

  —quickstrategy Read quickstrategy's other letters
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