Of teeth grinding frustration and the sheer awesome that is Google Wave

It is a beautiful cloudy cold day and I can’t really speak because my jaw is clenched rather firmly shut and my molars are getting really intimate with one another*. So intimate in fact that you can see their motion through the jumping muscles in my cheeks.

I think I did a prat fall out of bed this morning. Ok so it didn’t help that between me dreaming of how Google Wave will change the world*** and my lovely 2.5 year old demanding ice cream at 3 in the morning, I did not get much sleep.

Have you ever wanted to eviscerate someone? Well I would like to rip the intestines out of an all round bastard. I wish with all the biohazard grade bile currently backed up in my body that I could tell you who he is. This evil mother…bitch decides to pay MM (to whom I outsourced the job) only a part of an invoice 5 MONTHS after she worked her ass off. His reason? He feels that the printing handling fee to which they verbally agreed is “ridiculous/exaggerated” and he doesn’t feel like approving it. I could go into how much work this…man…caused by only getting back to us at his leisure. Oh and they have posted us the checque for the ‘approved’ amount… a few days ago. $#%*&!!!!! This means he not only foresaw that we could do nothing but it is doubly insulting that he gets to say “the cheque is in the mail”….ooooh breathe Feylian breathe.

I need to stop thinking about this because I will do something career killingly stupid. What I resent most is that we, as said bastard hammered home, have no power to really do anything about it. A war over a R5k invoice is stupid and he has a lot more resources than we do. He is a crooked nuclear waste carrying tank and we are 2 guerilla fighters armed with ancient Mauser’s and a handful of bullets. Oh for a little justice. This is the kind of thing that makes me really hate men of a certain age and type****

Gahhhh…anyway back to the Google Wave thing. If you have not yet played with this please do so now. It will change the way we communicate so radically it is breathtaking to think about. It is still, as Boaz says, a bit chaotic and buggy but the potential is staggering. I woke up at 4 this morning knowing that it will almost completely replace forums. And that’s without the collaborative bells and whistles. What I want is for my company to…ahem…ride the wave and write a plugin. We have the skills but guess what? Yes, that’s it. We don’t have enough programmers. SAP and Salesforce can afford to throw a few grand at innovation whereas we could maybe do so a bit later…so unbelievably frustrating. By the time we can afford to play with this new tech it will be too late.

The more time I spend submersed in research on new tech and SEO/Social marketing the more I know that it is my path and passion. I just wish I could know MORE. There is so much to learn and it is so bloody awesome. Quite literally bloody as my no longer elastic memory and reasoning attempts to assimilate vast amounts of information and this leads to blood dripping out of my ears. It also causes my team inclination to sink to previously unplumbed depths. Or perhaps I just need that holiday more than I thought. I think it might be a good idea for me to work from home tomorrow. I’ve already growled at El and I love her…

1. Word of the day: disembowel (The Sage: 1. remove the entrails of) I like that. The old Roman in me wants to then use a stick for a spot of divination.

2. Insight of the day: Being angry is really bad for you and wonderful for your dentist.

3. State of the pool: hissing, spitting hot but contained acid.

4. Joys of the day: 1. going home, 2. wine, 3. speaking to no one, 4. Reading Anathem (it is a really big book ok) in a womb like bath.

5. Awesomest lines: From an Ars Technica article on Google Wave.

“If I had to describe, the best I could do is this: Wave is a mash-up of email, IM, IRC, online forums, and wikis, all rolled into an experience that sort of resembles (to me, at least) a MOO.”

6. Scripture lines: Ezekiel 25:17 (King James Version)

¹⁷And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

*The kind of intimate that a 90′s R&B singer would just have to compose a song that would contain words like “hot”, “grind” and “my baby”. And the video would feature LL Cool J licking a lollipop and the required tight cut off jeans and I’m-a-lumberjack**shirt. Wait, there should be some whipping too. And a fine sprinkling of calcium dust on everything.

***Think a tsunami of 2012 proportions.

****50ish, married on paper but definitely not in spirit, too many business dinners portly and just short enough to qualify for Napoleon syndrome but not so short that he would fail at business. The kind of guy who thinks it his right to paw his secretary. I’ve known, and been pawed by, enough of these to qualify this grand generalisation.

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