And now for another entry in our continuing series: Crap I Don’t Need.

What you’re seeing above is the Altoid tin I picked up on a recent grocery store trip. I’m a pretty big fan of Altoids and a compulsive enough eater of them that I try not to keep them in reach. But the prospect [...] Read more »

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Mom reminds us to “keep our eye on the ball”:http://www.thirdlayer.org/archives/000246.html and not get distracted by obviously silly policy proposals that will not achieve anything. Read more »

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So, I have a need for a PHP-based image gallery application for some work that’s not appropriate for Flickr. I used to use Gallery — in fact, “I still do”:http://images.thudfactor.com/gallery/ — but I don’t care for it much. What are the cool kidz using these days? Read more »

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There are lots of very nice “old pictures at Old-Picture.com”:http://www.old-picture.com/, but strangely they claim copyright on the images — many of which are digital reproductions of works available in the public domain. I don’t think they can do that.
I suppose an argument might be made that the scanning of these documents represents “original work,” but [...] Read more »

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The more important a production or development task is, the less people follow established work processes. I don’t understand this. We did not make specification, documentation, and testing requirements to while away the lonely morning hours. We made them so we could avoid error, track progress, predict problem spots, and recognize when a project is [...] Read more »

Posted in Speaking Very Slowly, Technology 2 Comments »