Memories (RSS)

This category is merely to tag my entries that I write in memory of the jobs, contracts, and gigs I've had over the years.

I Love Excel...

...and I hate it. Excel has a model, that seems to be broken all the time, and appears that there are a zillion ways to do things that are not a preferred way.  The most common situation seems that Excel either breaks, crashes hard, eats up on the
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Why Did Engineers/Code Monkeys/Programmers Steal "Architect"?

Oh my, this is exactly how it seems to work.  Doh!
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Wednesday Recruiter Discussion

This Wednesday I'm going to be meeting with a group of recruiters to go over some .NET Framework topics.  I'm doing this to provide a good foundation in which to discuss, question, and inquire with the prospective candidates that they speak with. 

The Important Things In Life and "Hearing the Dog Frequencies"

I've had it with my TV... So I've about had it up to hear (imagine me placing my hand above my head to see what I've had it up to hear with...).  I'm sick and tired of the piece of crap ancient TV we have in the ole' apartment.  Pending some
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Rough Couple Weeks

Just a note to any readers and a note to self about this particular first quarter of 2008.  I've been excessively busy, and it looks like I will be on through at least the beginning of April.  If things keep going this way it'll definitely be
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Mid-Way, In My Last Week, a Bit of Pondering

On the train again, 6:07am, 2 minutes before the doors close, 3 minutes before departure.  These last few weeks have been really nice in the sense of the commute.  I've been taking the Sounder back and forth in the morning and afternoon. 
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Places to Think, a.k.a "My Third Place"

I got up after a development all-nighter a few days ago.  The GF and I hit the computers at about 10:00pm.  We both played WOW for a bit.  She kept up the adventures of WOW while I jumped into dev mode about 11:15pm.  From 11:15pm
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Meeting Etiquette

One of the things I really got ingrained in my habit while working at Bank of America was the respect of other people's time.  Especially in fast moving projects this is a very important thing to practice.  While working at BoA one