As I approach a million miles on United airlines, and lately have struggled to earn even premier status on their Milage Plus program, I am accorded the benefit of "Unlimited Domestic Upgrades". This is a nice touch. But I have yet to receive this ...
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...
Last week, I was chatting with a colleague, and I made an off the cuff comment that the day my life began to fall apart was the first day that I took a Product Management job. I was only half joking, and this week has given evidence to support the...
Lately, I have been watching a lot of classic TV series on Netflix Streaming. Lots of fun, although it did highlight that my cable modem is ancient and needs to be replaced with a DOCSIS 3.0 box, to prevent hiccups. One show that I have been cruis...
This morning I got my second crown. Both upper rear molars are now crowned. The first one I got ~ 20 years ago. I ate a hard candy and the tooth completely crumbled. Getting fitted for the crown was a bit arduous. Two impressions (before and after...
Talking about "Why people who make things should learn Chinese" and this snippet of a comment really got me smiling this AM. "I'm sure there was a time not long ago when the people of England and France were saying "Those Americans...we've got to ...