Writing from work: MercedesBenz Portal is again malfunctioning, which is upsetting me bigtime! If only they would put me in charge of this! Man, this could be done so much easier and -more important- way more efficient. What I apparently simply don’t get in this business is that in 999 out of 1000 cases a predefined and preset outcome that is to be achieved by any means is more important that the process that leads to the output. I have the impression, that the mere setting of a certain target does not lead to creativity with respect to creating a process. It makes people only focus on the target and do whatever pops up their minds to achieve it, but no thought what if the process would have been designed in the most efficient and economic way possible and then see how much output can be achieved. But ok, this is my unimportant opinion resulting from unapplied university knowledge. It simply hurts to see stubborn thinking, “pay-me-and-leave-me-alone” acting, and wasting of resources. Plus: I appreciate the fact that I am paid for rather undemanding work, but staring at a screen waiting for the next error-message to appear is not even worth being called ‘work’ and is frustrating me to the max. — Enough of this, let’s talk about the more enjoying things: On Saturday the weather was just perfect enough for a trip to Frankfurt where “CSD statt CSU” was the day’s hot toppic. I didn’t go there because of the Christopher Street Day, hell no, but it was interesting to see how political it all was this year. “Stoppt Stoiber” was omnipresent and I bet my left hand that everybody there will not vote for ‘Ede’. On the way back we stopped at the Saalburg, an old Roman castellum I last visited with my family during primary school time. It was cool to see it again, no doubt! — Closing now, another 45 minutes of brain-on-standby and I am free again, at least for today… ;)