When I think of the possibilities that the next presidential race brings to the table I'm almost inclined to quit my job and join the majority living in a system of entitlement.  I really want to do the right thing and contribute my fair share to society but the more I give the more we give the more we suffer the consequences.  And now I hear rumblings of great change, taxing businesses, taxing the rich, raising fuel costs contributing to rising cost of goods and don't even mention the real estate business.  If I have to pay one more dime to support the entitled of the world I'm just not going to participate anymore, it's a shame too because I still have much to give.

Can we live in a socialist republic and still have the audacity to call ourselves a free society? I'm not so sure and I wonder if this country is headed in a direction that actually helps in the end.  You cannot strengthen the American dollar in the world by overtaxing the businesses that provide the jobs that keep the economy going.  Are we really arrogant enough to believe that our 1/16th of the worlds population really matters in a global market.  Are we really secure enough to believe that they won't opt to do things cheaper elsewhere, there's a whole world of consumers beyond our borders.

If you think I am in this world to pay for your cable tv when you are perfectly capable of working you my friend are mistaken.

If you think about most things we do from day to day are unnecessarily tedious and are designed to create busywork just so we can say we are doing something.  Every day when we arrive at work we are greeted by a barrage of project managers who's only purpose is to analyze the programs we would love to write.  It seems less possible to build something because it is fun and interesting and more likely that everything must be assigned a purpose to even exist. I fully understand a respect the right to maintain control in an environment of chaos but to what extent must we do this.

Often times quality of workmanship is sacrificed to meet certain arbitrary guidelines and the creative programmer is left with no latitude to explore better alternatives.  It is the creative somewhat maverick experience in the early days of computing that has allowed us to create the ever evolving Eco-system we have today.  Now that we have all this power most companies in the world are ever fearful to explore the possibilities and resolve to cold hard facts to build upon what they know.  In my opinion you cannot grow if you simply keep recreating what you know and never really step outside the logical boundary.

I'm not preaching anarchy nor am I suggesting that having a certain amount of control is a bad thing, I'm simply suggesting that perhaps you should give your programmers a little more credit and see how the paradigm shifts.

Is spent most of today solving the problem I left with SharePoint last week (See Previous Post), in the end I find that for some reason the answer was more difficult than it needed to be.  It kind of leads me to the questions in my mind about how much information we can retain before each of us implodes.  When it comes to the shear amount of information we all have to remember it's sometimes a bit overwhelming especially for those of us in the Information Technology world.  The end result is always rewarding but sometimes involves a bit of frustration especially when every problem seems to be born of silly situations that just should not be.

At the end of the day it was a fantastic day to be grateful for; I solved my SharePoint problem, nothing broke and I have a beautiful fiance to come home to.  Tomorrow, that's another day and I'm sure another challenge will surface.  No complaints, if we aren't challenged than we never really understand what we are capable of.