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Seattle’s Top Career Coach (and Sister)

I’d like to congratulate my sister Heather on being named “Seattle’s Top Career Coach” by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. Yay Heather!
I know she’s super psyched to be recognized like this for her hard work and determination.
You can read more about it on her blog, which is to my mind one of the best written blogs you’ll [...]

In Family, Milestones, Work on 28 June 2007 with 1 comment

Deliver it yesterday

Transcript of an email conversation with a collegue regarding the need to get a 614MB file to a client:
Me: Yeah, that’ll never work. eProject file uploads usually fail on files greater than 30MB. Try the new file transfer appliance and let me know if you have any questions.
Him: Thanks, but he wanted to get this [...]

In Humor, Web, Work on 27 July 2006 with 1 comment

The White Lunch

Today for lunch I have leftover halibut and risotto and a few potato chips snagged from the kitchen at the office. Everything I’m eating is completely white. Even the dish I’m eating from is white. I’d take a picture and post it but it might blind you.
And, yes, this is a blog post [...]

In Food, Work on 19 July 2006 with Comments Off

Meta-meetings

Today I hosted a WebEx meeting to demonstrate to a small group how to host a WebEx meeting. It felt a little weird. I wonder if there will be any side effects like spatial or temporal anomalies? Is everything OK out there? Is this thing on?

In Web, Work on 12 May 2006 with Comments Off

Big iron

This just in from a coworker in the home office:
The IBM Mainframe has been shutdown after 15 years of faithful service. Let us all have a moment of silence to wish it a fond farewell. RIP…
<silence> </silence>

In Milestones, Work on 30 March 2006 with Comments Off