Long Week

What a week it has been. We have become super busy with our project. We are now working with a team that runs off a different back end system then the rest of Mercury (we bought the company years ago and let them stay on their systems) and man o man is this going to be hard. There is a mix of them not wanting to break away from their crappy system, keeping some of the old rules and ways (they have edits in their system that do not allow an insured and spouse to be the same sex.... and they don't want to get rid of it) and I think they just do not get the big picture. Combine that with our insane time line for delivering requirements and it all adds up. Plus I get the honor of data mapping what will be our old data and database to our new one... plus and data transformation that must occur... ughhhhh - I see a lot of beer in my future.

On the interesting article side of things.. for all you iTunes users who are excited about the DRM (digital right management) free MP3's they are selling, not so fast. ArsTechnica reported that embedded in your DRM free MP3 is your name and e-mail address so if that song is ever traded on a P2P system (limewire and such) they can track it to you as the source and more than likely sue you since technically that song is only for you and if it is out there - you illegally shared it.

A new item I am posting when possible I will call "THE AUDIO FILES" which Will basically consist of things our friend "Audioslave" says while at work that crack me up.

Today's "Audio File": Have you heard of that band Ugly Kid Joe? They are a side project of Suicidal Tendencies...."

If you don't think it is funny then you don't know both bands but I will leave it at that.

Peace out