As a thought experiment, I would like to describe nation at a point in time. I’ll let you figure out the nation and time … -> The country was once, uncontested, the most powerful in the world-> … But it became embroiled in foreign wars-> Became dependent on foreign military assistance-> Created an oppressive tax […]
A Few Of My Favorite Things – IV
I am vaguely disorganized. No, please don’t jump out of your seat and tell me that I “Have” to get more organized. I don’t buy it. I’ve run a successful regional software conference with my methods; they seem to be doing just fine. I used to tell a story about how I felt bad or […]
A few of my favorite things – III
I promise to talk about testing tools, so next up is a DigitalVoice Recorder with PC Link. This particular model records and transfers to PC in WAV format, which can be converted to MP3 with any tool such as Audacity. Here’s the backstory: When I started by career, occasionally I heard decisions that didn’t seem […]
A Few Of My Favorite Things – II
If you watch enough presentations, you start to see things that detract from the message. The speaker has to plug in, power up, and press control-shift-F9 a bunch of times. He has to try to make smalltalk in this period – smalltalk that he didn’t expect to do. During the talk, he may have to […]
A few of my favorite things – I
I’d like to start a short series on my favorite tools. No fluff, just stuff. Tool #1: Google Reader. This is like TiVo for blogs. You search for, find, and list your favorite blogs, and it updates itself with a GMail like interface when new posts come out. Because Google indexs, well, everything, you can […]