Is there anything more dreary than making a slide deck?A: Yes, having to sit through a slide deck. How much of the drudgery associated with putting together a slide deck is dreading the presentation that one has to give based on that deck?A: I’ll bet it’s a lot! Why are some people so hostile to…
Dudes who use lavender, italicized script fonts in their work IM messages are dudes I just don’t get. In your personal life? Have at it. At work? Hrm…
If you wake up because your alarm is going off and you were dreaming you were at work, that time counts against the time you have to be at work that day. It’s a rule.
Coworker: Can you help me fix this? Me: If you remove something from the solution you need to tell the installer solution to not look for it any more. [a minute passes] Me: Oh, you’re probably aware of this, but if you remove that you need to coordinate this with all of the downstream consumers.…
In the bathroom at work today: heavy snoring from one of the stalls. I LOL’ed
So I’ve stopped using my mac laptop to remote to the work-provided workstation sitting under my desk—mostly because the corporate proxy has become too painful to work around without using a domain-sanctioned machine on the LAN. Having grown into my poweruser self while mostly using *nix/Mac, this leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s a…
Is this an effective and efficient way to ensure robust communication? Or is it a facile way of demonstrating how busy one is? Because, seriously, the two in the example I’m working off can take their “I’m doing FOO know. You should do BAR”, “I’m almost done with BAR, you should be able to start…
Oh my! So here’s my fun, work-related rant of the day. So nearly three years ago I was tasked with solving the problem of how we could install the same application on a windows box multiple times in such a way that we could isolate customer data. In short, each customer gets its own installation…
When coding a largish application from the ground up there comes a time when things look bleak. This usually happens shortly after the application becomes too complex to hold the whole thing in your memory. Either the levels of abstraction get too disorienting or, if you’ve foregone abstraction, keeping all of the “meaningful indexes” straight…
Oh hooray! It’s annual review time! The time of year where we have to scramble to find a few uninterrupted hours in our busy days to fill out online forms telling folks how we think we did in the past year. How well we’ve fulfilled arbitrary goals measured with arbitrary metrics that, while relevant twelve…