30
Jan

So, we started off the week watching the Saints play the dirtiest game they could possibly muster against the Vikings. Literally, Gregg Williams admitted that his game plan was to have his guys ignore penalties and try to injure a 40 year old future Hall of Famer. I’d say that’s going to come [...]

25
Dec
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Okay, so my old, exceptionally expensive laptop’s graphic cards blew up. Don’t work. Then my desktop died. Thankfully, in a pinch of spend craziness, I bought a sub-400 dollar netbook last year (MSi Wind, great netbook by the way)…and I used that to get myself a job. Had two offers on [...]

03
Oct

…if Google were a private company, they could just settle with being the biggest search player out there, and having a sizable chunk of the web mail market.

09
Sep
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So, the new player in the arena is the Palm Pixi.
Takes the form factor and accelerometer type screen of the iPhone, and puts a keyboard on the bottom like the Blackberry.
Either it’ll be a huge hit, or more likely, people will say “the screen is too small!” then proceed to complain about the [...]

09
Sep
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Okay, maybe that headline does real gamer nerds a disservice, as I only play one computer game anymore…when I have mental blocks and just don’t want to go outside for a bit.
So I play Fallout 3.  It’s the last game I’ve paid for (almost a year ago).  When you only play like one game, it’s [...]

Given a couple days of thought after that last job, it became kind of apparent to me (and I knew this all along, but didn’t quite put two and two together about it), the previous place I worked, while I really liked the team and management, really didn’t know what the hell they were doing with Agile. They knew that it would help them with estimates, but if all your focus on is estimates, you’re just adding bureaucracy without adding the teamwork element that makes Agile a better development philosophy for many teams.

This is probably the umpteenth million Palm Pre blog/review, but I’ve had it burning in me for awhile.