On a political note, shame on The guerrillas responsible for these. How can they say it was the military's fault. They look like that nutcase that says "they made me do it" in front of the still warm body of his victim. A weblogish minute of silence for the victims, and a cry of war for the slaughterers.

I've been rather busy these days, between work, extra work, family matters and everything I hadn't had the time to review the blogs in quite a while. In the meantime, a holy war has formed between Some and then some. With the outcome of.... increased functionality for us, lazy users.

On my continuing meetings with that abstractuos entity called the client, today I went to a major bank like institution, to talk shop. Up until now the jobs I undertook where ones where I "had the ball", to say it in soccer terms. This means I was the dummy selecting the platform, developing the technology, choosing the framework, etc etc. With this one It has not been like that. It means a lot of requierements come from high above. What amazes me the most is the apparent lack of care, on behalf of the client, for the financial side of the thing. Back in small-website-made-from-scratch days the client was a tough sell, you had to take away every penny from him, and he would expect the delivered program to do everything from rocket science to calculating the net worth of the whole company with a single keystroke. Here it was different, they knew the thing was hard and were not concerned with the tab. They only wanted to know the size of the check they had to sign. The money stopped mattering, and it was the flux of information that became important, knowing what to expect and when to expect it, and having someone to blame if something happened (could this be what "software business" is about?).