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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12555 posts

The Executive/Corporate Checklist

This information is pulled strictly out of my arse. By and large, it is not meant to be representative of the corporate atmosphere and is evidently extrapolated from what one statistical outlier[ie, not a White, Anglo-Saxon Male aged 18-35] can observe in her few encounters with the business world.

Executive Corporate Checklist [According to Me] to Making a New Image

[1] Phone billions of households when they are the most inconvenienced and tie the poor bastard who answered the phone up for hours.

[2] Throw out all the results from women, anyone not coloured pale beige, anyone who doesn’t preface at least three answers with “the bible says”, and anyone outside the ages of 18-35. They don’t matter, so why should we listen to them?

[2a] If we’re specifically marketing this bullshit to women, pay attention to what the single white men want to see on them, and not what they, themselves, want to wear/buy/whatever.

[3] Run the results past the accountants and strip out anything that costs too much. For example: hiring local workers, building a factory in the country the primary market is in, or preserving Mother Nature (what’s she done for us, recently?).

[4] Once you’ve picked a third world country that lets you shit all over their environment, lay off another few thousand workers in your market country. Those fuckers are way too expensive.

[5] Give yourself a bonus from the savings.

[6] Pretend to give a crap about the environment by trumpeting about all the trees your company planted. Do not mention the old-growth forest your company ploughed under for the space to plant said trees.

[7] Pretend to give a crap about the global economy by trumpeting about all the jobs you just created in the aforementioned third-world country. Neglect to mention those jobs are for kids in a sweatshop.

[8] Spend millions of dollars hyping the new eco-friendly, market-friendly stuff.

[9] Complain about how expensive local wages are whilst firing another few thousand local workers.

[10] Bonus time!

[11] Repeat steps 1-10 until the bottom falls out of the market.

[12] Demand a government bail-out whilst simultaneously complaining that the government has its hand in too many things and needs to leave business alone.

[13] Bonus time!

[14] Wonder why all the local people who no longer have jobs [thanks to you] are not spending their scant income on your overpriced bullshit.

[15] Criticise anyone protesting your practices whilst wearing/using your overpriced bullshit. Ignore the fact that it is physically impossible to avoid your overpriced bullshit.

[16] Move to your private island to retire with extra bonuses. Buy a politician or three to make sure the business you now have shares in can continue to rape and pillage.

If you, or anyone you know is offended by this list; then you’re probably EXACTLY the kind of person/company I’m talking about.

This just in! Apple Corp == Intellectual Property Thieves!

I read new T&C very carefully, folks. And I was alarmed by this passage in the iCloud T&C:

“However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform such Content on the Service for the purpose for which the Content

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I can't brain, today.

I have the dumb.

It’s been bought on by a combination of late nights and bad sleep, both through circumstances I can’t control (I’m a Mum, remember?).

I shall be working on tomorrow’s entry in the rare moments when cognisance presents itself. Slowly, so I don’t hurt my wrist. And possibly fuelled by an endless stream of caramel mochachinos.

Then again, given how weirdly poetic I get on sleep dep, I could

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Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations....

Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations. (Like there’s a viable alternative to buying from corporations…)

I think I nearly sprained my hand drawing this. I have teh fail. [Again, click the pic for the HUGE version]

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RTFM (Story!)

At the risk of borking my browser again (I don’t exactly have the best of computers) I am going to publish a novella here.

Cross your fingers.

Oyeah. RTFM stands for the techie-favourite acronym: Read The F[laming/expletive deleted] Manual. Also the most common advice to noobs encountering new technology.

RTFM

C M Weller

Dave groaned. On the upside, the painful part was over. On the downside, both his arms were now in permanent casts. More permanent than the

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Good Boy (Story!)

This is one of the weird ones. And by “weird”, I mean one of the ones that dropped on me from the sky like a ton of bricks and threatened to burn a hole in my head until I wrote it down.

It ends in a weird place, but if I re-wrote it, it would inevitably turn into a novella and I would loose the short-story twist and fridge horror of it all.

Have at me… but gently. Tell

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An open letter to Copyright Extremists

WARNING: This post contains high levels of bile and snark. If you are allergic to, or cannot withstand either ingredients, please avoid exposure to this post.

(may contain traces of sarcasm)

Dear Morons,

Most of you are apparently unaware that copyright and copyright extremism is strangling your income. As a concerned cogniscant being, I thought it best to make you aware of just how mind-bogglingly fuckarse stupid you’re being about the whole thing.

Firstly, copyright began softly after Gutenberg revolutionized

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Well, shit.

I hurt my wrists playing silly buggers on the computer (a very popular game!) so there’s no log entry today.

Bleh.

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To cloud or not to cloud...

Any Apple fan worth their salt knows that Apple’s bringing the Cloud to the plebs, but what does it mean for writers like me?

Pros, cons and musings below the cut.

Pro: Convenience. A document or WIP [that’s Work In Progress for the unenlightened] can be accessed anywhere by any device, so long as you know the password.

Con: The potentiality for Fic Griefers. People who hack into your cloud just to mess with your work and cause

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The Zen of Clean-Up Day

Or, perhaps, the Tao of it.

Cleaning by not-cleaning is by no means as effective as, say, cleaning by actually cleaning.

I have dithered about for as long as I could. I went shopping for some essentials, I had my eyes tested [Interesting photographs!] and also had lunch.

Now I really have to sweep the floor.

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Nor Gloom of Night (Story!)

A little bit of palaver before I delve wholesale into the fiction.

Firstly: I write Science Fiction. Yes, the red-headed stepchild of the fiction arena. Well, sparkly vampires and bodice-rippers be damned, I like Science Fiction. If you don’t, then you don’t have to read this.

Secondly: This story has been rejected by Analog Magazine. I would like to find out why, since the standard rejection letter is a trifle vague. Just… be gentle. My ego bruises

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What's all this about then?

I woke up this morning and realised that I am Thirty-nine and have done almost squid-all nothing with my life.

I consider myself a writer - but I have finished little and published nothing.

I am a Mum - yet, or perhaps because of that, everything I do is wrong.

I have a degree in Information Technology - and I am unemployable.

I have two kids, both on that marvellously wide rainbow that is ASD, and I think I’m achieving

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