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timeline pulled out of ass by executive management timeline shared with client due to fear product cuts scope until functionality equal to worthless everyone forgets purpose of functionality development slaves away towards timeline building worthless functionality voices raised, tears shed timeline met, functionality unused rinse and repeat

Whether we like it or not, the handshake is one of those critical elements of a first impression. If I have children I will certainly advise them that to get to know a man is “to shake his hand…to look him in the eye”. I loved seeing this image therefore from the Art of Manliness [...]

My brother, Craig, does new employee training at our family business and presents the following as being representative of the company culture we strive to maintain and grow. I keep it next to my desk at home as a reminder of both how to act and the type of people to invite into my life. [...]

I can be a pretty exuburent laugher but let’s be honest LOL doesn’t really apply to me. When I’m on the web, if something drives me to laughter it is generally a single half chuckle. Therefore instead of typing LOL, it feels more appropriate to type OLO. You’re welcome.

Expectations are the devil: There was a boat-load of excitement on my part when this came out.  So much so that I took the Best Buy gift cards that had been in my drawer for over a year and without thinking twice marched to Best Buy to get one.  I had messed around prior and [...]

Overall very happy and wondering why I need the huge desktop computer that is next to my desk making the sounds of a robot with pneumonia.I have been most impressed with the speed and hardware of this machine.  It is very fast in booting up and returning from sleep.  Connecting to a network is remarkably faster [...]

“I got up on a desk, with a loudspeaker, and told everybody that I was giving one order: They were to treat anybody they came into contact with who had been affected by the storm like a member of their own family.  Their mother, father, brother, sister, whatever.  And I said, ‘If you do that, [...]

It will often happen that you inherit a project from someone else.  Usually this project is well down the path towards failure which is the reason it’s switching hands: The project isn’t going well, is running behind, or things are changing in your department or organization.  This can be enormously frustrating when you feel that [...]

“When we’re starting a new project, I’ll first meet with one or two people. I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we’re doing product design. If you have eight people in the design meeting, it doesn’t work. Everybody has an opinion. Everyone wants to weigh in on what the font should look like. [...]

I felt like trying out a new look for my site but I didn’t want to lose the one I had.   So I thought I would leverage all the same pages and just create a new stylesheet and a method of selecting which style to use.  Then I thought, I’ll just create a random [...]