Simon Davis-Crane

#SOTA and #POTA activator and chaser.
#SummitsOnTheAir
#ParksOnTheAir

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Just let me know which one I should restart

[Brian Dunning @BrianDunning]

Happy Exploding Whale Day to all who celebrate.

[つぎはぎ | SE歴16年 @Ms_ITsavvy]

営業部長「Outlookが使えないんだが」

情シス「Microsoft側で障害が発生しています」

営業部長「こんな忙しい時に。いつ直るんだよ？」

情シス「復旧時刻は未定です」

営業部長「はぁ？Microsoftには連絡したのか？」

情シス「公式の障害情報を確認しています」

営業部長「いや、電話しろよ」

情シス「……電話ですか？」

営業部長「そうだ。直接話した方が早いだろ」

情シス「世界規模の障害なので、現在対応中かと」

営業部長「じゃあ責任者を出してもらえ」

情シス「……Microsoftの責任者ですか？」

営業部長「そうだ。こっちは金払ってるんだろ？」

情シス「世界中の企業が払っています」

営業部長「うちは長年使ってるんだ。優先してもらえ」

情シス「……」

営業部長「とにかく電話して、何時に直るか聞いてくれ。それか、うちだけ先に直してもらえるよう交渉しろ」

情シス「世界規模の障害なんですが」

営業部長「そこを何とかするのが情シスの仕事だろ？」

情シス「……分かりました。確認します」

営業部長「最初からそうすればいいんだよ」

情シスは、静かにMicrosoftのサポートページを開きました。

そこには「復旧時刻未定」と書かれていました。

情シスは、しばらくその画面を見つめていました。

その間にも、営業部長からの催促電話は鳴りやみませんでした。

Microsoftの復旧時刻は、誰にも分かりませんでした。

ただ一つ、分かっていることがありました。

営業部長からの次の電話は、必ず来るということです。

本当に怖いのは、Microsoftの障害じゃない。

月額料金を払えば、情シスがMicrosoft本社を動かせると思われていることだった。

[LibreOffice @LibreOffice]

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year. Just saying.

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @8090Throwbacks]

Just one post today 🙏🏼♥️
#RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget

[80s Kidz @80s_Kidz]

Over thirty years have passed since this was first broadcast, and it still remains the most gut wrenching and
most poignant moments of television of all time.
#RemembranceDay
#NeverForgotten

[Mehdi Sadaghdar @ElectroBOOMGuy]

Always Discharge High Voltage Capacitors and BE CAREFUL around them! Or else…

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@K4KHOMetroATL POTA in a car is fine, but I have decided that POTA on a Californian beach is better. It is quite different to sitting in the rain back in Liverpool 🙂 #ParksOnTheAir

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

Activated a very windy GW/NW-031 #SOTA #SummitsOnTheAir today. Also counts as GB-0995 for #POTA #ParksOnTheAir Thanks to all the chasers and S2S stations that called me and Nic on a busy 20m band. 73 👍😃

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@M7BPR Have fun Alan. The 891 is a great portable radio. Had mine out all weekend, even in the rain, doing #ParksOnTheAir

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@JamesMelville @CountBinface obviously.

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@foodgov @vegsoc @asda Maybe there is a supply chain issue here, as the code on the mixed veg package is very similar to the one that we found to have snails in last month. @AsdaServiceTeam

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@AsdaServiceTeam Asda, this is the second time in a month that you have sent me mixed vegetables that have had snails in them! This is disgusting! My vegetarian wife has eaten half of this meal and is now sick. Why are there snails in our food!? 🤮

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@M0TTQ Similar here Stuart. A quick visit to POTA GB-4514 after work. 10m SSB was fun, all DX stations. #ParksOnTheAir

[80s Nostalgia Channel @80s_channel]

Right...

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@Kennerknecht @k8mrd Hi Mike, nothing heard here, sorry. Maybe next time 🤞 73

[Simon Davis-Crane @SimonD_G7WKX]

@ba4qcn Awesome, well done sorting the licence. The UK is very good at needing paperwork 🙄😂 I hope to catch you on-air when you arrive. Where will you be based here? 73.