Errare humanum est
or “the D’oh Moment”
As I’ve been laughing at other people’s ignorance, I have to tell about a computer-related blooper of my own: Last week I received a PDF that wouldn’t open. I tried both the Adobe Acrobat/Reader versions I have installed – no luck. Then I went to one of the other tech people and asked “Which PDF versions you have?”
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You just have to pretend that that’s the cool way to say things now – like it wasn’t an error. Then on the inside they’ll be questioning themselves (for a minute) and when you leave they’ll be thinking, “idiot”.
I guess after a long day at work the mind works in mysterious ways. Today I overheard someone say that the client wrote that they didn’t have a working RTF on the computer (meaning FTP program).
I’ve been hounding my boss for weeks about getting a new host provider, going on about how limited we are in capability, etc.
I made sure to actually be there when all this happened as they tend to make technology decisions without anyone who may know a bit about what’s going on. So, this was fortunate as we came close to having a server that can handle PLP (Perl) and not PHP scripting.
Why they didn’t go with a provider that can handle most of everything I’ll never know.
They’re lucky to have you!