This is how you build a loyal team. If there is praise, spread it to the people under you, knowing you will still get credit for running the team that got the job done. But blame? You take that and shield the people below you and do what you can to keep your crew solid. Will lead to a few suck moments, but in the long run your people knowing you have their back is worth it.
Posts by Shane Lusby
54 posts • joined 27 Feb 2007
We've found it... the last shred of human decency in an IT director – all for a poxy Unix engineer
Pluto is more alive than Mars, huff physicists who are still not over dwarf planet's demotion
Meh
Real life is messy. Whatever definition you decide on is either gong to arbirarily chop pluto off the list or add some other bodies onto the list. Maybe harness the righteous anger and change the definition to include 'bodies humans live on' and see if the pissy people will start funding colonization programs for all their favorite former planets?
Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires
FireEye pulls Equifax boasts as it tries to handle hack fallout
MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked
Uninstall QuickTime for Windows: Apple will not patch its security bugs
BBC telly tax drops onto telly-free households. Cough up, iPlayer fans
SCO vs. IBM looks like it's over for good
Bill Gates is once again the richest man on Earth
Massive! Yahoo! Mail! outage! going! on! FOURTH! straight! day!
Ten top stories from Classic Doctor Who
Was coming here to say the very same thing. I think McCoy is treated very unfairly because some of his Doctors scripts were such complete rubbish. His darker take on the Doctor was great and Remembrance particularly and moments of Survival and Silver Nemesis were brilliant. And if Survival overall was far from the greatest episode ever at least the final lines felt like a bit of a closure when they killed the series off,
'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do. '
Who should play the next Doctor? Nominations needed!
COLD FUSION is BACK with 'anomalous heat' claim
The IT Crowd returns to Channel 4 for a final episode
Texas schoolgirl loses case over RFID tag suspension
NASA admits hiding 'really good' news from Martian soil
40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun
ThinkGeek trembles before Pork Board's pork sword
MSI tells 97,000 customers to 'Read The F***ing Manual'
BOFH: The PFY Chronicles
NASA moon-bomb probe strikes rich seam of fruitcake

I am the moon
He's so bright and milky white
Shining down upon the ground
He's so bright, milky white
Shining down upon the ground
Everybody look at the moon
Everybody seeing the moon
The moon is bright, he's milky white
Everybody look at the moon
Hey! I did a song. Jupiter, I did a song. You ain't got one.
Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords

Agree with many
A lot of the info in the article is skewed because these were people who were dumb enough to be phished, but there is also the point that the hotmail accounts could be throw away accounts anyway. I go for very secure passwords for the few sites that matter(financial, web admin and useful email passwords) and for almost everything else, one pass. I mean do you really care if someone hacks your account on a forum you posted three things on two years ago?
Walmart's Jesus Phone no better, no worse
Blu-ray backers highlight rising demand
Vup??
'while early adopters, who are keen on buying into the format, will be hindered by shortages of cheaper machines.'
I'm totally willing to give them the recession hurting sales bit, no arguments there. But anyone buying in at this point I would say is not an early adopter, so the current cost of machines is meaningless for them. The format is hardly mainstream yet, but its been around essentially 2 and a half years now.
'Faith-based' investment firm fingers holiday's most sinful games
Boss frogmarches bound employee to cop shop

BOOTNOTES!!!
For every bloody comment about 'Wheres the IT angle, whine whine whine' READ THE CATAGORY. Its Bootnotes. If you're not familiar with the boot notes section, go take a look. Its anything amusing that the Reg guys and gals feel like publishing that doesn't have an IT angle. So the next time you're scanning the front page, if you can't stand articles without an IT angle, don't click on the ones that are labeled bootnotes. Or if you do, don't bloody whinge about it.
Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

15 minutes
What you guys are not keeping in mind is some of the utterly crap software riding on top of the OS in some cases. My job runs some software on top of the OS on a system with seriously insufficient memory, the system takes a tiny hair under 10 minute to reboot and get to where you would clock in if you actually had to boot it up every morning. Not something we normally do in my job, but any of you that are used to decently written software would be horrified at the stuff some corporations will pay for.
Grand Theft Auto reportedly inspires teen rampage
US woman sues over exploding thong
HD media future may be Blu, but it's not rosy
Crap movies lately
The fact of the matter is the Q1 movie releases largely sucked. Some new ones are rolling out soon that are worth while and we'll be buying again.
[rant] When it comes down to it who the hell is choosing the movies being released in HD? You can get Beerfest in HD! Even if you for some reason wanted to own it at all, there is no reason you need a high resolution version of most comedies.
Welsh blogger fined over 'menacing' plod blog
PETA offers $1m for test tube chicken
Pointless prize.
How bloody stupid is this? Frankly if someone was able to produce the product the wish, that tasted perfectly like chicken and was commercially viable(i.e. as cheap or cheaper to produce than chicken) they are going to make so much money that the million prize will seem like chump change. Vat grown protein I think is still hovering somewhere over 10k a kilo last I heard.
BOFH: Lift laughs
US HD hardware sales 3:1 in Blu-ray's favour by year end
Console owners
I think you need to check your age ranges on the average console owners. They are not dominantly owned by 12 year olds any more, and haven't been in years.
Beyond that, and as many have pointed out above there are many people purchasing PS3's as a Blu-Ray player that happens to play games rather than as a game console that happens to play movies. I've only had my PS3 a short time but I currently have 3 times as many movies as I do games and I only expect that ratio to grow with time.
Need a new set of b*llocks? Try Argos
Best Buy sells 'last Wii' twice
Babbling net software sparks international incident
Reg lexicographical Shock Army liberates mobe
The RIAA will come to regret its court win
Baen.com
Check out Baen.com for their free library. They have been saying it for years and putting their money where their mouth is.
Giving away some books has been good advertising for others. They don't have a single book that doesn't at least have a few free chapters available. Which means you know whether or not the book is going to hold your interest before you bother buying it.
Sony breaks out 'mass market' Blu-ray players
US customs bust coke-smuggling 'submarine'
Stop. Think. Continue.
They are not saying the SUB went through the panama canal. They are pointing out that the Customs unit is based out of Florida, but that does not mean that it was straight out of Florida that day. Just as the smugglers may have been based out of Columbia doesn't mean they are not allowed to leave Columbia to actually do their smuggling.
Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft
Costs?
Anyone have any clue the kind of dollars they are actually spending on their lawsuits? Because we get articles on them every couple of months and that kind of advertising would normally be insanely expensive. I keep finding myself wondering if its a sort of alternative advertising budget. Win lose or draw they are getting regular exposure.
Novell owns Unix copyrights after all
Cat senses impending death
Couple of points not mentioned in the article
Mentioned elsewhere is the cat only tends to hang out with people in the last two or four hours of their life. It doesn't tend to be social normally, so it doesnt appear that its just getting lucky.
As for the 'seeing why everyone is gathering around grandma' again it seems to be in the other direction in a number of cases. Rather than the family coming for the final hours and then the cat showing up, the cat would show up and then the nurse would call the family. Want to talk about a freaky phone call? 'Hello, the cat of doom has said your relative is about to snuff it, can you make it over quickly?'
As for the scared to death argument someone mentioned it is a dementia/alzheimer's ward and the staff are under the opinion the dying generally never know the cat is there. This one I do think is a bit open to question, but even if they know its there they may not be aware of its cat of doom status.
UK planespotters to battle al-Qaeda
Chinese fight rat plague with giant saucepan
Sprint boots 1,000 phone customers for talking too much
Lets be fair
There are some customers out there who simply are unreasonable. Ive been in service long enough to know this and there is a point beyond which its better for the company to cut free the problem cases so they can devote those resources to customers who there is at least some hope of actually helping.
Catherine Tate to accompany Doctor Who
Dutch police arrest 111 West Africans in 419 clampdown
No sympathy either side
On the one side I understand that what the 419ers is doing is wrong. On the other side the people they are preying on are terminally stupid, and as they say stupidity is its own punishment. If it wasn't for the spam factor in how they do their work I would view them as an amusement rather than a problem.