No matter what your industry or job is, paticularly in IT, you market yourself whether you realize it or not.

Well, MYTH started as a joke. A coworker kept stopping by to ask esoteric questions about procedures and tools with Windows NT4/2000 and Exchange 5.5. Now, for these few weeks I would coincidentally have a tool or the location of the relevant Microsoft TechNet article handy. Finally she asked a question that I did not know the answer to, and she said, "Oh no, there goes the myth of Steven!". In the course of events, it was a good joke, but I got to thinking about it and turned it into a summation of my view of how to work within an organization.

As a father with a small child, I am exposed to children's TV programming. In my son's case, the favored show is the Thomas the train series. Now having seen several episodes more than a few times, the mind tends to wander into the area of random thoughts.

I've seen some of the earlier shows on DVD and it seems that the role of the driver has diminished in recent years. The engines seem to increasingly work more independently only interacting with humans when loading/unloading and getting their tasks to do for the day and the 'drivers' seem to have almost completely disappeared at times. Tasks they do under the premise and desire of remaining and 'being a really useful engine' (with the implied threat of being sent to the scrapyard if they aren't). Kind of sinister in one respect.