I have been working for my corporate master for just about a year now in some capacity–first as a contractor and now as an employee. One of the things that is different about this job is the layout of the employee workspaces affectionately known as cubicles.
Until recently, for most of my professional life I have [...]
Now I shall take a moment to rant on office politics. Granted, this rant is not about office politics in the traditional sense. Instead, it is about creating more noise that requires time to address.
On Friday, I was covering for one of my team who was out of the office after working to the wee [...]
In what has become typical of August, the late summer invasion of the Red Sux* fans is underway. It all began yesterday morning on my bike commute into work. I was coming down Conway Street from the Camden Yards Warehouse, crossing Howard Street. What did I see crossing the street just before 8:00 AM? A [...]
Also tagged Baltimore, BaseballVarious bloggerati are up in arms about the ongoing instability of Twitter. Information is slightly better than it has been before as the technical folks are communicating the status and their ongoing work to resolve the problems. Various Twitter clients fail to work, and in some cases the site is completely unreachable. The FailWhale image [...]
Also tagged Blogging, FriendFeed, Technical, TwitterBeing a contractor, I forgot about the magic of expensing things. I can do that now as an employee, and it is nice. While I am not going to go “hog wild,” I really forgot how this basic thing is quite nice.
Getting access to places and applications is a fairly easy process, but I miss [...]
