{"id":267,"date":"2005-08-18T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2005-08-18T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T05:48:52","slug":"does-that-software-come-with-a-blow-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/does-that-software-come-with-a-blow-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Does that software come with a blow job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050818magiccrap.jpg' align=right alt='' \/>I&#8217;m still shopping around for helpdesk software. I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/itmanagement.earthweb.com\/netsys\/article.php\/3499856\">an article<\/a> that mentions Magic Service Desk. I found that BMC software just bought the company&#8230; interestingly, I used to work for BGS Systems, which was bought up by BMC.<\/p>\n<p>So, I go looking for this helpdesk app on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\">BMC <\/a>site. The amount of Powerpoint generated, gold plated crap I had to wade through to see what the product was about was astounding.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, if they are really getting the $5,000 per seat they are asking when free software is available that does it just as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Misdirection is alive and well, and living on the interweb!<\/p>\n<p>PS. I never ever, not even once for a moment beliveved that any of those 23 year old babes in suits that they get from the stock-web-image catalog were going to come to my house if I bought their crummy software. Well, maybe just for a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still shopping around for helpdesk software. I came across an article that mentions Magic Service Desk. I found that BMC software just bought the company&#8230; interestingly, I used to work for BGS Systems, which was bought up by BMC. So, I go looking for this helpdesk app on the BMC site. The amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}