Originally posted on October 22nd, 2007 over at Progress.
I’ve noticed that, like Rudy Giuliani, I still purchase my clothes a few sizes too big. While I can’t speak for Rudy, somewhere deep inside I’ve been conditioned to think that when I buy clothes, I have to buy them big and “grow into them.” I rationalize this by enjoying the fact that I can go shopping just once every few years.
It’s a silly eccentricity that, according to Freud, I can just blame on my mother. I’m not going to grow any more and really don’t need to buy pants that will fit perfectly in a few years. I need pants that fit now. Besides, even if I were still growing, by the time my clothes fit properly, I’d probably need a wardrobe update to account for new standards styles and business requirements personal preferences.
I know, I bore you with my neurosis. SOA What? Read more…
Originally posted on October 4th, 2007 at Progress.
I was about to enter a meeting yesterday, when a peek into the room showed me everyone dressed “business casual.” Seeing as I was wearing a suit and didn’t want to be overdressed, I flipped off my shoes and headed on in.
It wasn’t long before someone commented on my suit. Thankful for ability to think on my feet, I pointed to my socks and said, “I realized the suit was a bit formal so I ix-nayed the footwear… on average, I’m business casual.”
When the clamor in the room subsided, the general consensus was that I was insane. Read more…
Originally posted August 28th, 2007 at Progress.
I have this fantasy that I’ll quit this labor of love here at Progress, and start a real career selling t-shirts with street-signs-that-would-be-funny-as-t-shirt-sayings. Always on the lookout for that breakout sign, today I found one to share.
I drove by this big rig with a sign on the side, behind the driver’s door, that said “you are in my blind spot.” I thought, how funny would it be if I wore that on the front of a t-shirt when I did my next product presentation? (Answer: Very funny!)
In the car with time to think, I thought about that developer at a major bank I was working with who knew his blind spot, but seemed helpless to avoid the resulting pain.
Fact is, he had two blind spots… one he knew about and one he didn’t. Read more…
For the sake of capturing some of my writing for posterity, I’m going to be copying over some of my older posts from my Progress Blog. I like my writing, and want to control the destiny of my blogging history. I hope you find them enjoyable.
Originally posted over at my Progress blog.
This is really cool, and I can finally speak about it. Wow, gag orders just don’t work very well for me. I mean, I can keep a secret, it’s just that the really juicy ones are harder to keep than the others! And, this one’s juicy. Ready…
Today we will release Orbix 6.3.4 with support for Actional.
Whoa! I bet at this point a lot of you are like so what?
Well, let me give you end-to-end visibility into the import of that sentence above. Read more…
