RedJen's Rearview Mirror

Transferred (finally!)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Current mood: cranky
12:46 AM

I really had no intention of ever using the blog feature in myspace, but due to god only knows what, I'm desperate and I need to vent.

I'm about ready to break something. I haven't posted on my personal site since the beginning of March. I had a bunch of personal stuff going on and I needed to deal with it. Lets sum things up by saying that public blogging was not the way to address anything that was going on. Now that I want to blog, my site is having technical issues.

So some things of note:

* Elisabeth & Beau's wedding went off with the planned hitch.
* Mosquitoes are more likely to bite you if you eat bananas. One of the guys on my team at work eats about 2 a day and I told him this fact. He didn't believe me, then it showed up the following weekend in the Sunday paper.
* Mark Thomas tells of his campaign against the Act which requires anyone wishing to protest near the Houses of Parliament to obtain a permit. (Had me laughing out loud at work.)

I think this guy uses whiteout on his monitor and has a broken drink holder on the computer too.

I've added a couple of comments, but for the most part, when I talk to tech support I rarely filter out what I'm thinking. This guy got me to the point where I needed to filter.

I took some time off from posting to work out some stuff, but now I'm back. Too bad I wanted to start posting about 2 weeks ago and the site decided to implode. The gallery isn't back up yet, but hopefully tonight.

Last night I ended up spending most of the evening doing maintenance on the site and getting the blogs up and running. I've started work on the gallery, but decided to go to bed, which means I'll hopefully finish them up tonight.

The trials to get things put back on the server is chronicled below for those who wonder where the site went during this time...

The gallery is back up and running. Shae & Co can post and comment again. Now to get some work done...

A thought recently on my mind has been different types of motivation and how they what effect they trigger in people. For the record, trying to motivate me through fear causes a reaction that is usually the opposite of the desired outcome.

Types of Motivations:

• Fear
  
• Intimidation
  
• Praise
  
• Encouragement
  
• Shame
  
• Challenge
  
• Bribery
  
• Guilt
  
• Award

I'm thinking about asking my team to consider these topics and honestly tell me what best motivates them. I wonder if they'll bolt for the door or tell me the truth.

My answer - Challenge