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Barf

1:30pm Friday 6 April 2001

I'm at work with 50 million things to do and interruptions everywhere. But the biggest wacked out thing is that our lovely client in Signapore is stuck talking to computer-unsavvy HR people instead of to the IT people who *should* know something about security.

They are all crying because they're afraid to turn on javascript on their browsers, afraid that a horde of hackers are just fucking waiting to attack their system the moment they turn on javascript. Further, they are actually protected within a firewall and have no internet access anyway! So the IT people are all, "no we don't want to give our users access to your web server; we'd rather host the survey on our server."

Okay, fine. They can pay the $10,000 just for the licenses required and hire people who know how to fucking program SAS in Signapore. Um, false. That solution would just be silly.

So I was all, "just allow them access to our server using SSL encryption," which I believe should pretty much guarantee that it's our server that is being reached, and not some s00p3r-l33t-h4x0r server spoofing our identity.

My Singnapore contact will call me back on Monday night with their response.

BUT!!!! Dammit, I just looked and SSL is not set up on our server now that we upgraded the machine. I know I set it up in September, but the box got upgraded (and maybe reformatted) so I'm not sure that I can find the SSL keys. We'll see.

Blah.

Baseball

6 April 2001

Wow!

I was talking to Karla about my desire to travel but feeling constrained partially be Wende, partially by my great job here. She apparently kept thinking about it on her way home and wrote this message. My reply is below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Karla
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:37 PM
To: rob
Subject: Make the box bigger


Just rambling here and continuing the conversation.....

Sometimes you don't have to think outside the box - you just have to make it
bigger so that it holds everything you want.  Instead of thinking that there
is inherent conflict in what Wende wants and what you want - can we define a
way for both of you to get what you want?  As far as the support you can get
from us - from work - let's use the trip to Australia as a paradigm and go
from there.  We are beginning to see you step into bigger and more
responsible roles.  We LOVE you and having you on the team.  Do we love sad,
restricted Rob, or Tigger Rob?  Well - it has to be Tigger Rob, doesn't it?
But, interestingly enough, Tigger Rob is showing lots and lots of strength
and responsibility as well as enthusiasm.  So - we have to look for
opportunities that will nourish the Tigger in Rob as well as challenge him
to get even stronger.  It seems that we can look for ways to make traveling
to odd and unusual places a reality.  We may not be able to do it for months
or even weeks at a time - but - for instance - if we look at the future of
the Singapore project - with you as our primary interface - we can look for
ways to shape it so that it becomes a trip to Singapore - with a stop in
Nuie?  The primary benefit from working in a small company and being a key
player is that you can shape things - so we have to look at ways to shape
things so that you keep the security and the adventure all at once.  Let's
stay open to possibilities.


WE AREN'T [one of our big bureaucratic clients]!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!

K.

OH MY GOSH! SO Excited to read such an incredible email!!!!

From: Rob
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:20 PM
To: karla
Subject: RE: Make the box bigger


OH MY
GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you could see the look of WOW on my face, you would never forget it in
your whole life.

Wow.

WOW!!!!!

You are the greatest!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I realize that we haven't bought tickets to Singnapore yet, but just the
idea that it could be in your brain has made my day!!!!!!!!