Observing Memorial Day

tom | May 29, 2006

I get choked up whenever I think about this “holiday”. Men and women in military service have long made posts like this possible. Sometimes they’ve been sent into harm’s way by ill-advised or bad-natured people but they’ve done their job nonetheless, in many more cases than not. My hope is that folks will sit back [...]

On Managing Customers and Line Counting

tom | May 29, 2006

Ran into this little gem accidentally and while it is a bit broad, it mostly hits my hot points. As a software development shop I often run into a manager who likes to see their US$80K equate to $n lines of code. In other words, “we’d expect at least 200K lines of code for the [...]

Vegas Camping Party Dads’ Las Weekend Bachelor Mid-week

tom | May 22, 2006

Confused? Mentally exhausted? Good. Me too. Let me see if I can build a computing cluster out of my 5 remaining brain cells to explain things a bit. I am the “Best Man” for one of my oldest and dearest friends (Kirk) so I had the job of putting together a Bachelor Party with myself [...]

Quick Update. And, Happy Mother’s Day!

tom | May 14, 2006

I finally got around to adding some photos to the last couple of months’ archives. Most recent are here in May though I did update April and March as well. I had a great Mother’s Day but since I can generally stand-up to pee it seems as if the main point might have been missed. [...]