I think back to my first few years as a software developer, happy to lock myself in my office and bang out code until 2 or 3am on a regular basis. No feature was too big, and no bug fix too small. I thought of things purely in the context of how long it would take me to fix the issue. I didn't think about the QA cost to verify it (I knew I wasn't going to break anything, honest!), or the cost to doc it or whatever. ...

I think back to my first few years as a software developer, happy to lock myself in my office and bang out code until 2 or 3am on a regular basis. No feature was too big, and no bug fix too small. I thought of things purely in the context of how long it would take me to fix the issue. I didn't think about the QA cost to verify it (I knew I wasn't going to break anything, honest!), or the cost to doc it or whatever. ...

Warning: if you haven't seen 'Wedding Crashers' and want to pretend you don't know what's going to happen, stop reading this. Then again, from about five minutes into the movie, you pretty much know how it's going to go. Now I'm not saying it's a bad flick...it's actually pretty darn funny. But what I started thinking about during the last half of the movie is this: do we need one more movie where a woman tells a guy to beat it, and he...

Warning: if you haven't seen 'Wedding Crashers' and want to pretend you don't know what's going to happen, stop reading this. Then again, from about five minutes into the movie, you pretty much know how it's going to go. Now I'm not saying it's a bad flick...it's actually pretty darn funny. But what I started thinking about during the last half of the movie is this: do we need one more movie where a woman tells a guy to beat it, and he...

I'm thrilled to see that Initiative 901 has made it onto the ballot in Washington State which, if approved, will ban smoking in indoor public places. If you hear a clock in the background, that's the countdown until we start getting bombarded witih FUD stating that a smoking ban in Washington will cause all the bars and restaurants to go out of business and impede the rights of law abiding, tax paying citizens who just want to have a smoke after dinner, and for gosh-sakes why do non-smokers hate freedom?

I'm thrilled to see that Initiative 901 has made it onto the ballot in Washington State which, if approved, will ban smoking in indoor public places. If you hear a clock in the background, that's the countdown until we start getting bombarded witih FUD stating that a smoking ban in Washington will cause all the bars and restaurants to go out of business and impede the rights of law abiding, tax paying citizens who just want to have a smoke after dinner, and for gosh-sakes why do non-smokers hate freedom?

I was very surprised to see Seattle Mariner Ryan Franklin was tagged for using steriods. MLB is trying to pretend it's serious about dealing with this problem, but that doesn't match up with the penalty: a 10-day suspension. It's too bad because I've always been a Franklin fan. Case in point: Tyler Hamilton, one of America's top cyclists, former Lance Armstrong team mate, and possible Tour de France contender was given a 2-year suspension for a first time blood doping/EPO result, in a case where...

I was very surprised to see Seattle Mariner Ryan Franklin was tagged for using steriods. MLB is trying to pretend it's serious about dealing with this problem, but that doesn't match up with the penalty: a 10-day suspension. It's too bad because I've always been a Franklin fan. Case in point: Tyler Hamilton, one of America's top cyclists, former Lance Armstrong team mate, and possible Tour de France contender was given a 2-year suspension for a first time blood doping/EPO result, in a case where...