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The morning after the Elections

First, congratulations to all who voted for, and condolences to all who voted against, the new President-Elect. You both wished well.

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vicious circle

Great presentation on how to make powerful PowerPoint presentations (pun intended) Death by PowerPoint

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what good is a standard process?

The question came up in a Mary Poppendick's talk on Performance App

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short quotes by the masters

David Wheeler, a world's first PhD in Computer Science, said : "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection."

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propagating change

I've been on Linked in for over 2 years. Most of the time it just set there, occasionally I would get or send an invite to someone I met.

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the fun and games of testing a legacy codebase

In the local .Net Users group meeting this week Robert Stackhouse talked passionately of the beauty of Test Driven Development, the confidence and p

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LinkedIn down since this morning

I have been able to get a page loaded a couple of times, but most of the time the server responds with "Oops! Sorry, we can't display this page right now."

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just landed in my mailbox

A nice little email from http://www.notchup.com - a candidates-search site that not only sells candidates to recruiters, but shares proceeds with those said candidates.

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price of gas : when higher is better

In the last few years gas tripled in price. However, the price paid at the pump is not the only cost.

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management speak

Another amazing example came in last night.

It seems it is too much to ask some people to actually read and comprehend even top couple of lines of the email before replying with questions.