So I have spent the past week in Portland, OR at the O’Reilly Media’s OSCON 2010 and learned some useful things for my job, but it has also generated a fair bit of dissatisfaction. The fun talks were more on the geeky side, like how to build a device to monitor the environment. It would [...]

Remind me again why I normally sit in front of a computer in Maryland…

I got my one year employment mug today. It is a nice dark cobalt color with my name and start date on it. I hear at five years you get a cupcake. I think I got the better deal. Too bad there is plenty of free coffee and tea in the break rooms but no [...]

It is not a good sign when one of the people supposedly on your development team asks a critical question like “so how do I install the code?” only 2 weeks before the demo.

I just did a quick calculation. Even though we moved further from my office, I am saving about 20 minutes per week in transit time from being on a better bus route. That amounts to 80 hours saved each year. I cannot complain!