Month: April 2005

Siebel changed CEOs…again. [here]
It’s at times like this that I still wish I worked for my former employer, as it’s offices are directly across the street from Siebel’s headquarters. Not much room to hide the bodies though.
More happiness on Siebel. [here]

CEOs:

Part 1 of this series is a phrase book of programmer-speak.
Part 2 is the meaning of “done” and how to know when you’ll get there. There’s another Bill Gates story here as well.
Part 3 is about features that kill projects.
Part 4 is about super debuggers.

Programmers
Managing Non-Technical CEOs
Managing Technical CEOs

The Managing the Technical CEO is some very fine writing.

Running a dev/release candidate version of Apache 2.0.54. Let me know if you see any weirdness.

Mailbox is getting a number of these requests on a daily basis, most are from automated trawling that I mark as spam.
A few haven’t bother to check that I am Canadian.
A few actually want to talk.
Anyone else seeing activity a la 1999 recently?
Hank Stringer has, of course…

I am in a Sales Meeting for the next three days, so postings will be light until the evenings.

The Head Lemur and I agree: FeedDemon makes your feeds more demonic! Get Demonized! Get FeedDemon!

Either FeedDemon has developed a serious problem, or my network route the TypePad Blog servers (not their Marketing site) is broken because I cannot get any TypePad blogs right now.
Anyone else having the same issue? Was this a planned maintenance?

Never mind, they’re back.

I love this. [here]
Reason 9, 8, 4, and 3 are the reasons why I am looking for new challenges.
via Conference Calls Unlimited.

Yes, I have gone with the crazy basic WP-like theme on the blog.
There are some issues with the AdSense locations, and I will need to tweak that a bit, but I like it!
Comments Welcome.