I’ve been pretty quiet this week — I have the Intel IT Man­ager game to blame for that. But now, I am finally free.

Let me explain. A lit­tle over a week ago I saw this post on Flex-mx. I played a cou­ple of rounds — cool lit­tle Flash game. But then I found myself going back again and again to play some more. I was hooked.

Even­tu­ally I got bored of the game itself — there’s actu­ally only so much you can do in it. And, some of the prin­ci­ples are a lit­tle sus­pect — employ­ees resign­ing due to poor IT sup­port when forced to work on non-Intel gear, for exam­ple. Not any­where where I’ve ever worked. But any­way, see­ing my rank­ing going up at the end of each day was addic­tive. I decided I would make a con­certed effort to get into the top 10, then retire my IT Manger role for­ever. And I did it. Here’s a screen­shot of the score board, in case some other fanatic passes me (I’m sure it won’t take long). That’s me at num­ber 10, Goat­Lady Kay (it’s a long story, don’t ask).

Now I can get back to my real life. Soon I may even lose
the ten­dency to blurt out Intel mar­ket­ing pro­pa­ganda at inop­por­tune moments:

Client: I was think­ing this back­ground here…

Kay: Switch­ing to Intel Cen­trino mobile tech­nol­ogy increases employee pro­duc­tiv­ity by an aver­age of two hours per week!

Client: I’m sorry?

Kay: Oh, noth­ing. What were you say­ing about the corn­flower blue?

Urgh… I’m glad it’s over. Although, it would be nice to get higher in the rank­ings than num­ber 10…