No More Chinese Food
13:00: ordered kung pao chicken
13:45: not feeling so great; decide to take a nap
15:45: wake up with giant "rock" in my stomach; curl up on the floor for the next five hours
21:00: throw up. twice. curl up on the floor for
Topic
rants
A collection of 34 posts
Scrum Sucks: Standups
Scrum is a development process; and right there it has already screwed up without having actually done anything. But we'll get to that later.
Today we're going to look at standups which are daily meetings of the development team. I don't even know where
Commuting
I've done an effective job at avoiding rush-hour commutes; or commutes at all, for that matter. In fact, it was only last week that I first went through one of those signal lights at the end of a freeway on-ramp while it was running.
I started a new
A Naming Fit of Stupidity
Beretta used to make this beautiful .40 caliber handgun called the 96 Brigadier (specifically the Inox). And it was beautiful. And then one day I found that they had completely discontinued the 96 series. No explanation. Meanwhile, their law-enforcement-loves-em 9mm 92 series continued on.
And then last week I found
A Bar
I can't complain about much regarding my hotel accommodations (considering that I'm not paying for it). And in particular I'm happy that the on-site gym is open 24/7. And I can almost understand the lack of a bench press setup. But I can&
Business Suckage
I wonder what shape our economy would be in if fewer companies were run by idiots. Let me back up a bit. I have a laptop with my life's work on it and no shortage of personal information and consequently I employ a whole-disk-encryption solution.
The PGP web
Managing Programmers
Well, the article is about "geeks", and that can take many facets, but I read "programmer" everywhere it reads "geeks". You can do the same.
So, this article is the single best summary of the peculiarities of managing IT people. It's amazing.
Cloud Computing
I can't wait until the term cloud computing finally gets shoved out of the vernacular and relegated to the list of idiotic terms used by a previous and archaic generation. Given that the cyber- affix remains in rampant use by the US government (and not a single private
Microsoft ... A Strategic Communicator
I chanced to read an article on Ars about Microsoft hiring a new VP of Corporate Communications (yet again).
In this article they quote a blog post by this soon-to-be Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw. This gem stands out:
And I've been able to work with Microsoft, a company
Not a Workout
If you have the ability to sing along with your music while working out, then, to the lady on the treadmill beside me: 3.5mph for five minutes is _not_ actually working out in any meaningful sense. Your singing did make me want to go faster, in an effort to