Opened my email this morning and got sucker punched. I knew it was coming but somehow put it out of my mind. Not hard to believe. I set an annual alert in my Google calendar to remind me of the passing of my greyhound Oliver. One year ago today, I...
What is it with mid range business hotels? They all race to the same amenities. Name brand toiletries (Neutrogena here at the Hilton Garden Inn). They have the wide shower curtain bars (so that you don't notice that you are standing in your grandm...
You know how hard it is to get a compact or ecnomony car? First, the travel agent seems to guide me into a midsize. It is the "Corporate Standard". Really? We have a standard class for rentals? Next, the jockey working at the counter says "An econ...
I love the little boutique soaps, shampoos and other niceties that they lay out in most decent business hotels. The Iron and Ironing board is also de riguer. Needed for those with small carry on's. You know what I often don't have, and could reall...
How often do you walk into a public restroom in a venue that is non-smoking (restaurant, office, sporting venue, airport), and you get hit with a blast of cigarette smoke. I just rolled off the plane here in MSP, walked into the bathroom and BLAM....
Twice in the last week I have received emails from the NY Times advertising a special 80 weeks all access for $0.99. That is roughly 13 cents a week. Sounds like a good deal. But, after the 8 weeks, ir will rise to the $30+ per month. Your digital...
Summary: A few weeks ago, a sales engineer was being disruptive in our iteration demo meeting. I sent a (non appropriate) message to my scrum master to get this individual to stop trying to turn it into a design review. The message was mistakenly ...
We all get a lot of spam. I have int he past, used one of my mail accounts to register for something or other. Don't know what it was, but it seemed to bring a few offers of "XYZ market report" or "Reach KLM decision makers in solar technology". O...
I know that I can't be unique here. We develop a really cool new feature/module/functionality. Early validation and customer feedback is hugely positive. Phrases like "game changing" "revolutionary" "must have at any cost" are bantered about. Then...
I saw a quip on Slashdot about a Google researcher who found that ~90% of his subjects (aka people) that he was observing didn't know that the keyboard shortcut ctrl+f would bring up a dialog to find the desired phrase/word in the current document...