notes and rants

Only a few will know what the title of this post is. It has nothing to do with this post, but it was the line playing on my Zen player when I began typing this. I just finished a week teaching in Ireland. I didn't have time to do much in Dublin other Read More...

Readers who know me already know that I have no plans in my career to manage people. Although I've been a successful manager in the past, I get more satisfaction as an "individual contributor". However, since I work with managers so much, I crashed a Read More...

Several weeks ago the user friendly comic ( http://www.userfriendly.org ) ran a sequence of comics on a “c-list” blogger trying to become an “a-list” blogger One example is here . I’m fascinated by the social world of blogging, and the variety of reasons Read More...

Once again, the beast called work has taken me away from blogging. The good news is that I thought of a bunch of stuff to talk about - which is a good thing when you don't really work on a product and have to find other stuff to blog about. It was a few Read More...