How (not to) talk to developers
Things to Say When You’re Losing a Technical Argument (Pigdog Journal) Hysterical. In so many ways. (tags: development humor technology) Wicked Fun Game Highlighting the Never-Ending Battle Between Product Management and Development (The Cranky Product Manager) “No, Developer, Don’t Say That” BINGO. OMFG. I may have to risk offending my developer friends and hanging this [...]
Snow days
Winter sure came in with a roar. I didn’t go to the office on Friday–we had pushed a new release of our software late Thursday night, and I knew that the storms this weekend were going to snarl up traffic Friday afternoon. So I used the snowblower on the driveway Saturday morning–we had about ten [...]
FiOS Day 2 — post installation checklist
We have FiOS now. The installers from Verizon left at about 2:30 yesterday afternoon, with handsful of cookies from my wife and thanks from me. They started work about 10 am. In the four and a half hours (including a lunch break) in between, they: Installed a new wall box (shown) to take the fiber [...]
