{"id":570,"date":"2007-02-11T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2007-02-11T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T03:59:43","slug":"just-tell-me-its-not-a-double-rimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/just-tell-me-its-not-a-double-rimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just tell me it&#8217;s not a double-Rimmer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I did take the SBS Exam last Friday, and passed! WooHoo, 788 out of 700 needed!! YAY! Now I get to learn the Secret Handshake!<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it means my boss didn&#8217;t waste money on business cards, as he already bought me a box with the &#8220;MCP&#8221; tacked-on at the end of my name. So now everything is all official-like, and I can truthfully call myself a Network Engineer and a Small Business Specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have mixed ideas about that terminology &#8211; in my mind, Engineers build stuff like bridges and roads. Me, I just plug stuff in and make it work. &#8220;Software Engineer&#8221; is truly a travesty of terminology, as these people are Programmers and should be called such. The whole thing just smacks of a PR move.<\/p>\n<p>Now, no offense is intended here, I&#8217;m not dissing anyone&#8217;s skills. I just think you should call a pot a pot, and not a Heated Surface Meal Preparation Device.<\/p>\n<p>Know whattamean, Verne?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the major dictionaries and Wikipedia all disagree with me. Shrug.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I did take the SBS Exam last Friday, and passed! WooHoo, 788 out of 700 needed!! YAY! Now I get to learn the Secret Handshake! More importantly, it means <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/just-tell-me-its-not-a-double-rimmer\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}