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...
As a Product Manager for a scientific instrument, part of our system is a "controller". This is nothing more than asimple PC that can run our software and doesn't have any conflicts with our system. Recently, the system we used went end of sales (...
I know that Windoes 7 can be ultra stable and reliable. I have used it for mor than 2 years, and it was rock solid. Now I know that it can be made to be unreliable, unstable, and glitchy. Where I work, there are all kinds of additions. Full disk e...
I rarely complain about regulations. I know that many, if not most of them are really for the best. We know what happens when there isn't any oversight at all. But once in a while, I have a real WTF moment. RoHS, or Reduction of Hazardous Substanc...