Flashes of Panic

Most of the soul-crushingly dull project is done now, so I’m handing it on to the New York folks who will actually supply the crack PowerPoint presentations to the junkies instructors. Yesterday I cooked up fifty-eight little zip files, each of them far too large, even once compressed, for email, and put them on our anonymous FTP server for download. Sent the email off to New York telling them where they could pick ‘em up.

The response from New York was, do you have those on a CD? Downloading them all one by one would take too long.

Maybe I missed something here… don’t you, somewhere, have an FTP client that lets you highlight a whole slew of items and download them all? Saving us (both of our companies, thanks) a few bucks?

And even if you don’t, how is it faster for me to burn a disc and send it, even overnight? Oh, wait, I see—it’s faster for you to copy them off a CD, rather than click fifty-eight times. Even though you’ll actually have access to the files much later.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder why anyone developing infrastructure for the internet even bothers. When I was doing event coverage at out-of-office locations, we used to refer derisively to exchanging files via floppy disk as “sneaker-netting.”

I bet he has MS Outlook configured to check the server for new e-mail every thirty seconds, too.

Now playing: Falling Down from Pleased to Meet You by James