fighting the lack of good ideas
I follow Joel Spolsky’s blog/news site, joelonsoftware.com. His most recent addition is “Adventures in Office Space“. Apparently, they’ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place. The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek…
I’m a member of TriLUG – the Triangle Linux User Group. Mostly I’m on the mailing lists as a lurker, sometimes as a contributor. But this week I asked a couple questions which the friendly community jumped-on to assist me with. Thanks guys!
I met a friendly girl (Shelly) today at the subway station at 40th and 8th in front of the New York Times building. But the only reason I bring this up is because she asked me how to get to the number 7 subway. There I was, calmly reviewing the subway map so I could…
I just had the best haircut ever. I’m in Manhattan this week for work, and on my way from the customer I’m working with to my hotel, I was accosted by a very friendly black guy who wanted to give me a haircut. Now that sounds pretty wierd, but he was standing in front of…
I use Google’s free mail service. And each account gets the privilege of having over 6 gigabytes of storage, if needed. However, I don’t use anywhere near that much. I go through my old email about once a month and delete stuff I no longer need. For example, I’m on the TriLUG mailing list. But…
As with knowledge capture, so must any successful organization pursue training. Training need not be formal. It can be self-paced, on-the-job, as-you-go, or formal. I know that I have learned the most about the product I support not from formal training, but from actually supporting it. Part of that is because we have had a…
I have recently been preparing to change jobs within my company from Support to Professional Services. This has lots of caveats, concerns, and corners to shine light into, alleviate, and circumvent. The first thing that I did when I found out that I would, in fact, be able to move to ProServe from Support was…