and on budget. Sigh. There are always some extenuating circumstances: A key component was more difficult to work through. Some circuit design was wrong the first time around (and the second, and the third). Regardless of how many times the design ...
Why I am glad I am not a Web developer
I am working with my Marketing team to get a user community site built. It is a pretty straightforward project that will allow our worldwide user base to connect, share tips, scripts and other related items in the use of our product. To spec this ...
Web project part deux
If you have been following the saga, I have been working on a new, groovy and cool web community for my products. Something pretty simple to start to build a community of practice. I have complained in the past about the contractor we are using, w...
Stone age thinking in the internet age
I am a huge fan of accessibility, and convenience for my customers. In my new role, we have a product that is a little long in tooth, and the software is a bit dated as well. Working to fix that, but one hangup is our absolutely shitty help system...
How come really smart people are so dumb sometimes?
Just had an ambush call. (that is when Sales invites you on a call, but "forgets" to clue you in on what is to be discussed). Needless to say, some pretty deep hip waders were needed. The whole premise was that we failed to accomplish some perform...
Phew, things to be thankful for…
Long time Mac user here. One utility that I just can't live without is Alsoft's Disk Warrior. I have Drive Genius and MacTools Pro, but neither one "just works" as well as Disk Warrior. A month or so ago, my wife's iMac was behaving wonky, so I gr...
A fucking shame – Boss 302 Mustang
A wicked american piece of heavy metal, a real muscle car, the Mustang 302 Boss. A bitchen car from 1969 and 1970 has been re-introduced. A worthy successor. However, it is a fucking crime against humanity to defenestrate such an awesome machine w...
Sugar coating: Sometimes you have to tell your engineers their software SUCKS
You get to a point where you can no longer hold back. It is like that bad uncle with the Comb-over who is not fooling anyone. Your software sucks. It is a shitty UI, it looks like technicolor vomit erupted on the screen. It is so unusable, that pe...
Market Analysis Oddities – Pulling my hair out
I am doing a market analysis to help us decide where we want to spend our next development dollars on. To accomplish this, I really need to get a good idea of their revenue. Top down, I took the bible, the accepted research. I also took the number...
Things that make you go hmmmmm
My wife has a touch of OCD. When we are traveling, she will close the hotel door. Then check to see it is locked. Then invariably, she will go back 5 seconds later to check it again. When shopping, after using the remote to lock the doors of the c...