Monthly ArchiveOctober 2004
My Life 29 Oct 2004 10:16 am
The Light Goes Off
From an email I sent this morning to someone who used to work on the project that I work now: Four years after starting this, I think I finally understand the orginal purpose for the one of your classes. I’ve made plans to put it back into the code.
It’s just been one of those mornings.
My Life 29 Oct 2004 10:05 am
The First Time
Q: Why is it that slopping coding always comes back to bite me in the ass?
A: Because we like to make our own lives miserable.
Of course, Kim has to update Steph’s answer with something grounded in reality: “We never have time to do it right the first time, but always have time to redo it.”
Uncategorized 29 Oct 2004 08:10 am
Hot Under the Collar
Your integrated circuits keep falling off your western robots? Try Bob Marley’s new super-strength Buffalo Solder.
Well Said 25 Oct 2004 09:13 pm
Words from Above
At a recent whole team meeting (over a hundred people), our project manager said, “I’d like to think you’re smart people.”
Starting with himself?
Well Said 17 Oct 2004 08:33 pm
The Project is Going to Be Late?
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
Well Said 14 Oct 2004 09:37 pm
Exercise Your Stretch Goal
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Well Said 14 Oct 2004 11:26 am
Be All That You Can Be
From a local billboard at an autobody repair shop:
It’s never to late to be what you might have been.
My Life 13 Oct 2004 01:03 pm
The Project Deadline Cometh
And with it, a new status designation that makes no sense to anyone else:
More flip flops that a John Kerry wannabe.