11:00 AM Said my wife, “I have an idea, honey. Let’s go look at the Snake River today. With all of the rain, I bet it is really high.” “Good idea, babe. I can bring my laptop and get some paperwork done.” 3:07 PM These kids will seriously not shut up. My wife is playing […]
Read MoreThis guy really is good. Joel recently posted a new article entitled The Developer Abstraction Layer. While I agree with his points, the article does not apply to managing only developers, IMO, but to any team of people with a creative discipline. I do have one point of differentiation, though. Developers are also smart people […]
Read MoreI am going to tell you a secret about your supervisor. Your supervisor did not get to be your supervisor by wanting to be your supervisor. Your boss is your boss because your boss was good at something other than being your boss. Maybe long ago. Possibly very long ago. Think about it. Management is […]
Read MoreCraig’s List does it again. I just sold my 1979 Yamaha XT 500 in less than 24 hours. That was amazing. I read recently that the combination of eBay and Craig’s List is putting newspaper classifieds out of business, which is the main revenue source for many newspapers. With results like this, for less money, […]
Read MoreToday, I got cable T.V. I’ve never had it before, and as I write this, I am watching a boxing match. Today, my car got fixed and received a clean bill of health. Today, I got a 3M down channel by replacing my DSL with a cable modem. Today, I got one thread in my […]
Read MoreI have a good friend who describes mainstream media as Koolaid. The goal of all media executives to be getting us lemmings to drink the Koolaid, ala Jim Jones and his Guiana punch. I fundamentally and vocally agree with my friend. T.V. in particular is essentially evil. I just ordered cable. I am so ashamed. […]
Read MoreI recently traded my Dell Latitude D810 for a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet PC. I have never used a tablet PC, but after watching someone proficiently take notes with ink in a meeting, I couldn’t resist trying a tablet. I have been using the tablet exclusively for about 3 days. So far I am quite […]
Read MoreUsing SharpKeys, from RandyRants.com, I just mapped my Caps Lock key to be another Tab key. This is actuially pretty handy for use on my new tablet. The keyboard buttons are significantly smaller than my old laptop keys. I tend to fat finger the Alt+Tab a lot. This is flippin’ awesome. Has anyone ever found […]
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