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Nike Testing
When I started writing this blog I had no idea what I was going to write about. I don't remember that ever happening before - usually I know exactly what I want to talk about and more-or-less how I want to say it. When I test, however, I find myself in Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:30 AM by micahel | 1 Comments

SD, Here I Come!
I'll be at SDWest next week stuffing my brain full of learning until it hurts. If you're going to be there too, let me know and let's meet up! Read More...

Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 3:38 PM by micahel | 1 Comments

Lunging Madness
The human body is an amazing thing. If you do something bunches of times in a row it gets fatigued and starts to fail. But if you persist long enough it eventually adusts and can continue for a very long time. Case in point: I did lunges for forty-five Read More...

Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 9:25 AM by micahel | 9 Comments

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Roadmap For The Next (Five) Year(s)
Goals are important. Without a goal - something you plan to do, accomplish, achieve - you can only wander aimlessly. (Or I guess you can always become a sedentary part of the scenery...) Note that this is *not* to say that wandering aimlessly is bad; Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:06 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

Choose Your Own Adventure
When you're in college December and May are the big "What do I want to do with my life?" points, but once you're out in the real world January takes over this timeslot. Of course, if you really care about your career and life goals you'll be pondering Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:19 AM by micahel | 2 Comments

Show Me
Dave Liebreich posted some while back what I presume is a question he asks prospective employers: "I've seen many organizations that treat the QA or test group as people who will do the 'menial' work that the programmers don't want to, or the people who Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 12:20 PM by micahel | 3 Comments

Hickory dickory dock, A tester ran out of clock
In pure clock time I work about fifty hours a week. Fourty hour weeks I think are overrated. I wouldn't complain if my manager made me leave two hours earlier each day, mind you, but I think a particular number of hours at work is much less important Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:57 PM by micahel | 0 Comments

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