So that's why they lost

If you reorganize the letters in Gore-Lieberman, you get Boring Lamer.
This insight courtesy of a car i followed part of the way home today.

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Well, playing PM is fun. If for no other reason than i get to sit in meetings at which i wouldn't ordinarily be a required attendee and when i ask questions about how the feature is spec'd and the person who's in charge of the project gets the deer in the headlights and says that when she inherited it two weeks ago, there weren't any, i get to say things like "OK, next time you want to do this, you have to include Technology from the beginning so that we can advise you on the stuff you don't know, so that when you're on a conference call with us and the vendors and they ask how they access our database so that our people have access to the data you're generating you don't look around as if you're waiting for us to bail you out." We could have told you that this 'Flash embedded in an e-mail' promotion could have been done in-house in four hours or less, and our devs and DBAs could have very easily hooked up a aspx page which writes to a SQL table on the backend; and that there's no way in Hell, Hades, Gehenna and Southwest Florida we're letting an outside company write directly to our database or use our stored procedures.

And it wasn't just me- Julie, who was the current PM nominally overseeing things from our end was really quite pissed (her word) that we heard about this thing which is going out next Tuesday or so for the first time yesterday, and that none of the technical details were spec'd out at all.