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...
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...
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...
I exercise by walking or running on public roads. I do this everywhere I travel, and even at home. In my "pounding the pavement" I have come across a lot of things, credit cards (returned), drivers licenses, cash (once I found a $50 bill.. It pays...
It has been a poorly kept secret that I have had an alter ego, the snarky, White Russian drinking league bowler known as the PM Dude. Created to be an outlet for some truly bad management from above, and with a high level of snark, it was catharti...
About 5 months ago, I left my cushy job as Director of Product Management, for a gig as an ordinary old product marketing manager. So far, I am exquisitely happy with the change. Great products, great people, small org (in a huge company) so I can...
This weekend, I completed my collection of ELP albums. I started listening to them in the 70, and had worn out so many copies of Brain Salad Surgery (with the H. R. Geiger art on the cover), that I was glad to finally be able to buy it as a CD. Ah...
I have long thought that us "geeks" who spend a large fraction of our existence working with, and trying to improve technology were a cut above. Both emotionally and mentally. This belief has been shattered. Two threads on Slashdot recently showed...
Sigh, tough place to be today. I manage a few websites, and one that is for a non-profit that I volunteer at. My personal stuff is all hosted at MediaTemple, and they have been awesome. But, I "picked" GoDaddy for the big site. It was pretty cheap...
I have recently changed jobs, and as part of my standard kit when I joined was a brand new HP Elitebook 8460p. Not a bad system, a pretty peppy Intel Core i5, and a Sandy Bridge chipset. It came with 4G of Ram, and our standard Win 7 x64 image. SH...