Meandering Thoughts #5
...though truthfully this is less meandering than an every-week frustration when doing work timesheets... My company uses WorkDay for time-tracking. I'll save my rants on time-tracking for another time. WorkDay…
Random Learnings #6
General Mills had supply chain problems during the height of the COVID pandemic that required reformulating Totino's Frozen Pizza 25 times in 26 weeks. It does to questions about the…
Travel and Phone Data
Using your mobile phone during international travel has always been expensive. Pre-smartphone, you'd carefully ration how often you make/take calls because the per-minute charges ratcheted up substantially once out of…
It’s Elementary Privacy, Watson!
In today's (mostly) digital world, maintaining data privacy and data security should be an ongoing discussion in all businesses, especially those developing applications, both internal business shops and software shops…
The Asian Gardens of Portland
In our first visit to Portland, Oregon, my wife and I visited the Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park and the Lan Su Chinese Garden in the Old Town Chinatown…
Random Learnings #5
Most City offices are in buildings tightly packed on awkwardly shaped sites and even modern builds make use of mirrors to increase the daylight on lower floors. Holden, C.H. and…
Las Vegas A’s?
My mother and her boyfriend moved my siblings and me from Brooklyn, NY to Green Island, IA in 1972, Iowa being my home from second grade through college graduation. When…
Amsterdam By Ferry
After I spoke at a tech conference in London, my wife and I took Eurostar to Amsterdam for vacation: Keukenhof, the Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum, an open-boat canal tour,…
Non-Traditional Project Planning
Most methodology discussions today start and end with how Agile is superior to Waterfall in software engineering; in reality, many other methodologies exist, each with its own pros and cons.…
Random Learnings #4
I first saw a reference to Sütterlinschrift while reading Fatherhood: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger. The author was researching his grandfather's military service in…