No More Chinese Food
13:00: ordered kung pao chicken. The hours that followed involved a giant rock in my stomach, the floor, and a great deal of throwing up. I need to start stocking epicac.
Topic
rants
A collection of 74 posts
Scrum Sucks: Standups
Scrum is a development process, and right there it has already screwed up without having done anything. Starting with standups, which rest on three failed assumptions about how much I care what you're working on. Stop stopping work to talk about work and just WORK.
Commuting
I've done such a good job avoiding rush hour that I only just hit my first metered freeway on-ramp. Drivers clump together like cholesterol in arteries and settle to the speed of the slowest one. If I could drive every car, would we even have a rush hour?
A Naming Fit of Stupidity
Beretta makes two distinct handgun lines: the 92 and the 90two. This is because their marketing people are idiots. I drove thirty miles to a gun store and still got shown the wrong one, because 92 and 90two sound awfully similar over the phone.
A Bar
I can forgive my hotel gym for skipping a bench press. But no pull-up bar at all? And every treadmill faces a wall of mirrors a foot away. I don't enjoy making eye contact with myself while I run.
Business Suckage
I have a laptop full of my life's work and I want whole-disk encryption. PGP can't keep up with OS X releases, CheckPoint's site thwarts every attempt to pay them, and WinMagic won't take my gmail address. How is our economy still standing?
Managing Programmers
The single best summary I've found of the peculiarities of managing IT people, so good it reads like my own rants quoted back at me. Read "programmer" wherever it says "geek" and it lands even harder.
Cloud Computing
I can't wait until "cloud computing" gets shoved out of the vernacular. But given that "cyber-" still haunts government press releases two decades past its expiration, I suspect I'll be hearing this one for a long time.
Microsoft ... A Strategic Communicator
Microsoft's incoming VP of Corporate Communications praises the company's belief in "the strategic power of communications." Not innovation, not advancing the state of the art. Mostly FUD. It's amusing to watch someone so plainly fail to cover that up.
Not a Workout
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 escape, but being on a treadmill myself, it didn't help.