== Link: The virtual furniture police

[[The Virtual Furniture Police
http://girtby.net/archives/2005/10/26/the-virtual-furniture-police/]]
is ultimately an unflattering view of how IT departments too often
attempt to have a great deal of control over user desktops. The opening
paragraph summarizes things nicely:

> This is a review, of sorts, of the book *Peopleware: Productive
> Projects and Teams* by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. Then a segue
> to explain how typical corporate IT policies contravene some of the
> excellent advice in this book.

And the title is lovely; I think I have a new catchphrase.

(From a comment [[here http://www.halfcooked.com/mt/archives/000972.html]].)