Soon To Be Hungover, Still Full Of Bears

What's this blog about, anyway? Menswear that remains flattering? Software giants having difficulty navigating the quick rate of change despite their massive cash reserves? The desire of said giants to maintain reserves of cash and walled gardens rather than simply making things better?

All of the above! Sharepoint 2010, new in 2013. There will be a new release of Sharepoint this year, and it has been said through the grapevine that Microsoft has caved. We are to be allowed Nice Things, like normal web-development administration privileges. Using text editors. Fewer of the Madd Haxx. This seems pleasant, in theory, although I could wish they'd released it five years past; it seems promising, on the surface.

Like cake. We all like cake, correct?

I am sure at this stage that it can be taken as understood that said cake is, in fact, a lie. You're still going to have to administer legacy systems. You're still going to have to use terrible haxx to do it, and you still have a pretty sweet gig breaking broken things and being angry for a living. But today, today is the day before New Year's Day, and therefore it is safe to assume that one of us is preparing for a hangover.

Because it is the slow patch, and because you will soon begin the painstaking work of repairing and styling an installation of Sharepoint 2007, take today to permission some things, then go read some of the Top Ten lists that were supposed to occupy your time over break. While you in reality slept and read and slept some more.

Here are some ever-adorable Pizzly Bears on Melting Ice by Masahiro Minami.

Perhaps you could review the Comprehensive List of Internet Emoticons, hosted by wikipedia. ಠ_ರೃ

Mykki Blanco is an awesome artist and this video is very good.
As is Ane Brun's Do You Remember
It fades nicely into Rae Spoon's Ocean Blue/Death In Venice.
Then you get to the Azealia.

It is New Years Eve, so the only conceivable reason you are working at all is for the money. At the same time, it is safe to assume there's shit-all to be done at your office, so here is some stuff from The Billfold, like my rental history as of last year - non-comprehensive - or bits on the best things people have done when they've quit their terrible jobs. Use that to kill some time. Poke around the neat corners of the web. Take a break already. You'll have more fighting to do soon enough.