Problem prevention knows no funding

A major topic on Twitter for me this week was that of problem prevention.
We all know error handling, error solving, creating workarounds or solutions for them, but "A stitch in time saves nine" is a debatable issue in ICT

Or is it?

It all started with a tweet from Jamie Oswald:

IT's biggest problem is its realization that there is more money in managing one's problems than in fixing them. #grrrrr

to which I responded:

@oswaldxxl also, hard to get budget for preventing problems from occurring

How often does your company plant get repotted?

[Image courtesy of Akira Kouchiyama]

Yesterday, I was watching my wife repot a few plants. Actually, quite a few of them.
What did she do? She took the plants out of their pots, and put them into bigger pots, adding fresh compost

I watched that for a while, busy with with other things, and the thought came to mind:

Wife has been repotting plants today, giving new roots room to freely extend. How many companies do this?

A few conversations followed: Sandy Maxey, A Jangbrand, Alan Berkson and Jaguar Paw contributed. A Jangbrand even had a post for that.
The results:
"Provide dirt, water, sunlight and maybe some support - growth will happen in best direction..."
"When you keep hitting the side of the pot, in every direction you're trying to grow, you might just need a bigger pot?"
"Corporate bonsai?"
"Hahahahah ... it's thick deep old roots that stifle the new roots."

Google Docs fails on PDFs

I woke up this morning with an email from Michael Stephenson, requesting to share my Perfect Integration eBook
Needless to say, that bewildered me. It's been out there for 2 months and one of my top-7 posts, and anyone who has the link has access

Update June 2nd 11:30 CET: Håvar Fredriksen commented and stated he can only access his private PDFs - assuming he and I are in the same situation, that isolates this to publicly accessible PDFs that are shareable for everyone who has the link

Update June 2nd 13:25 I can access my public PDFs again, as well as private. Given the fact that Michael emailed me 12 hours ago now, it's fair to state that there have been issues with Google Docs publicly accessible PDFs for half a day - for how many others that is the case, remains to be seen

Before just granting him permission, I checked