Small Business+Phoenix+Software

Is Self Service Online Support the nice way of saying No Technical Support?

He knocked the elastic right out of his pants. (Thanks - NFL)

It’s no Turkey in the Straw.

How many will try the Google Chrome browser because of dissatisfaction with Firefox 3?

Trust comes in large part from courage and from the ability to constructively confront reality.  (Thanks Charles H. Green)

When are you gonna scratch that itch?

What no photo radar yet from ADOT?  I’m so disappointed.

He deducted his watch and bicycle as business expenses.  (Thanks - Warren Buffet and his paper route)

You may have backup, but do you have restore?

Write tests before fixing a bug.

I’m feeling very threadsafe myself.

If you don’t have enough sense of humour - go back to salaried employment! (Thanks Roy Law)

Is adaptability as important as planning?

Time wounds all heels. (Thanks - John Lennon)

Can joining a “strong contact network” improve your shyness?

If I can’t find it on Amazon, do I really need it?

Did we work together or did we golf together?  I can’t remember (Thanks - Karl)

Spring fell on a Wednesday last year.

The main culprit was hubris.  (Thanks - Richard de Neufville)

If I wasn’t good at working with complexity, that business would have thrown me off the horse a long time ago.

Does anyone know the difference between website design and website development?

Rerealize (as used in a sentence): I recently rerealized that there is a 10 to 1 output ratio between a developer and a great developer.

Local, local, local or you’re loco, loco, loco!

Truth is rarely pure and never simple (Thanks - Oscar Wilde)

If a software developer is reckless at times but brilliant at other times, should their misdeeds be forgiven?

Sometimes it’s not a marathon, it is a sprint.

This model-view-controller pattern is the design pattern for content.

Confidence is a software developers’ biggest weakness.

I’m not waiting for the big break, I’m waiting for a bigger break.

Pool season is here just in time, again.

As I attend a conference this week (that I won’t name), whose host state is California, I have been treated to some speeches by elected officials here.  I am struck by each speaker, mostly by their performance.  They all have the same ability to enrapture the crowd with great stories, quick witted one liners and general effusiveness.

At their core, they are performers, plain and simple.  I suspect performers have been elected to office long before (and long after) the governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  I suspect their electability is directly related to their stage presence.  In a state the size of California, that’s the only way to capture the attention of the masses.

Not that the officials aren’t smart or worthy of the office, but I don’t think most would have gotten there without their performing skills.  Some might call those same skills leadership, but I’m not one of them.  Leadership is not how well you can work the crowd but about giving your people the tools to succeed.

Valentines always seems to fall on a weekday when I am at my most frantic.

Should consultants invest in regular training at the expense of earning a payday?

Vinyl records and vacuum tube amplifiers will never vanish.

Is golf more difficult than math class?

Ignorance and arrogance never delivered a project on time.

It’s not the raw horsepower of your intellect, it’s how you use it.  (credit to Paul Glen)

How many steps I have taken in the pursuit of new shoes?

Is gossip healthy?

Why does project managment contain so many words that start with P?  Project, Program, Product, Phase, Parametric, People, Provisions, Plans…