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 ...
Today, while projecting for our iteration planning meeting, my google talk client popped up a notification on a new email with the title "Regarding the job opportunity xxx" Oops. Didn't really want the team to see that one. Sigh, one more applicat...
When you are joining a conference call, and you are prompted to speak your name and press pound or hash, you suddenly have to cough, sneeze, burp etc? Never fails...