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Well, I got a lot done today. Unfortunately it wasn’t a lot of my stuff that needed to be done. I did however assist Izzie and a friend in a domain migration that went pretty well. I must say though, I was rather appauled when I learned the company had an “IT” guy, but decided to hire out the network administration because their in house guy didn’t really know anything. It scares me to think about the number of corporations out there that are stuck with some IT person that has no idea what they’re doing. The CEO is in a position of not understanding what is being done wrong and the real problems with the method in which things are being carried out in their business. The problem here is that most CEOs are sales and marketing people, which is fine. The problem is they, by their background and ability, are rather impressed with flashy displays and large words. To get a job in such a place, one just needs to throw around a few low level tech terms and you’re in. Whereas the guy who actually understands the terms won’t throw them around in an interview because they would seem out of context and are. There is nothing worse than watching someone throw around a term that they don’t really understand and mis-use it to mean various other things. IT is an interesting field in that there is a term for everything, and there are some terms that mean nearly identical things, but the devil is in the details. Perhaps one term supports 10 users, and the other support 10k. That’s a very important distinction to make.