Month: March 2005
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Any man and his dog?
Howard Adamsky’s article “Save Your Job” (Viewpoint, Jan. 2005) states that code is a commodity and suggests that any man and his dog could write it. If it were so easy as the author and many CEOs claim, why then are so many projets bug-ridden failures?Cost-effective development comes from employing highly competent individuals regardless of…
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Failure
“My dear Lascelles,” cried Drawlight, “what nonsense you talk! Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to expain as failure — it is, after all, what every body does all the time.”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg. 77
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Reality vs. Cinema in the Bush White House
The following piece appeared in The Onion issue 4108, 23 February 2005. This publication, which has been appearing in local Twin Cities establishments lately used to be available only online. Thanks Onion for brightening our days. Whenever I say the following headline to my 16-year-old, he still cracks up. Especially since this week, they ran…
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Are you busy?
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters
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Porn police
One of the things that I am responsible for at the office is reviewing the email that my filtering vendor MessageLabs identifies as possible porn. This one came in on 15 February. Looks like a good hit to me. Ah, to live if California…
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Perfection
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence doing your best.Sir Lawrence Olivier