Souce: http://www.defenseimagery.mil I remember the Space Shuttle Challenger. I watched her first liftoff on television and watched her final flight in person. On January 28, 1986, I was a young engineer at a defense contractor in Palm Bay, Florida, about 30 miles south of Cape Canaveral. We would either go to the roof of the …
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Whoa!
I just realized I haven't posted anything here in over a year and a half. I have more opinions than that.
Truth vs. Message
Source: http://www.familius.com/the-truth I was reading a post on Language Log about David Brooks' penchant for, shall we say, elaboration in his writing and public speaking. This story reminds me of an incident when I was a freshman engineering student taking my first college English class. As an exercise we had to write a paragraph about "the …
There’s a reason they call it “The Cloud”
Image credit: flickr/Jackie Tranter Over on IT World, Dan Tynan tells the story of how his cloud storage on box.com was deleted. By a stranger. With no notification to him. The short version is that box.com allows enterprise customers to "roll in" accounts of their employees or "external collaborators". This allows the company to manage them …
Textbook Project Management Failure
So the much-ballyhooed unveiling of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, AKA Obamacare) web sign-up occurred about three weeks ago. It was an utter failure. Does this mean that the ACA therefore also fails? Not necessarily. What it really represents is a textbook failure of project management. Granted, I am saying this based on sketchy (and …
A Blog In Search Of Its Purpose
There's a Farside cartoon I like. The caption is "Edgar finds his purpose."* The picture shows a nerdy guy kneeling on an overturned sofa cushion, holding a oddly shaped ball with various things protruding. Including a whisk broom. I guess you can find your purpose anywhere and it can take any shape. Just accept it. …
Ansonisms 