So…

Two monkeys in a bath, one of them says, "Oooh oooh aaah aaah, oooh oooh aaah aaah!" The other one says, "Why don't you put some cold water in?".

Boom tish, eyethangyew!

(courtesy of some blokes on Virgin Radio this morning)

Radical Common Sense as applied to the art of Project Management

A project needs to have both goals and estimates
They should be different

From Webster Tompkin's Journal (The Deadline by Tom DeMarco)

If you work in IT (particularly if you're a Project Manager) you need to read this book and Peopleware or anything that comes from the desks of those nice people at The Atlantic Systems Guild If you do read Peopleware you will immediately give a copy to your manager: then you'll be fired as a troublemaker because nobody likes a smart arse.

Happy birthday

To my beautiful little boy who is four today. He should, at this moment, be chasing his mummy around the house with his new Spiderman web shooting thingummy.

Happy birthday

To my long suffering, wonderful, young wife (well four years younger than me anyway) who is still not forty. Be assured that I shall be giving her the bumps later.

What we need is a...

...framework of services providing national relevance utilising an inter-operable products to provide a yadda yadda yadda yadda…

I kid you not, I read this over a fellow commuter's shoulder this morning: she seemed to be taking it very seriously.

Bleurgh

Them nerds can drink!

Just work the percentages

We just found an RPG version of one of these…

update pricefile set price = price – ((price / 100) * 10)

Oops...

update pricefile set price = price + ((price / 100) * 10)

Doh!

A nerd is as good as a drink to a blonde horse

Speaking of which, Simon and I are meeting for beers in The Horse Bar, to discuss blogging, Java, war-stories, and phwoar look at the Bristols on that blonde/brunette/redhead (delete as applicable). As usual, join us if you’re in the area and/or the mood. Bring your own blogging java or war-stories and/or Bristols/blondes/brunettes/redheads.

Natural highs

Don'tcha just love the rush you get from a decent hit of hot English Mustard? 'scuse me, my eyes are a streaming!

Remember that managers are essentially secretaries who can fire you

An essay entitled Politics-Oriented Software Development which just about hits the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.

Via Richard@Home