Archive for March, 2010

Saturday, 20th March, 2010

Two Growing Boys Month 7

Here we have the junior members of the team in March, 2010. Not a lot has happened since last month’s photo, although it is getting towards the end of the first school term of 2010 and everyone is getting a little tired and emotional. Not least the parents of these two little charmers.

Saturday, 20th March, 2010

Unintended Consequences

There is an old adage in management circles that people optimise their work towards what is measured. In my business if you measure someone on the number of bugs they fix it has been observed that some programmers will actually introduce problems in their code just so that they can fix them and increase their [...]

Wednesday, 17th March, 2010

Things worth mentioning

Once more it has been a little quiet around these parts. Whilst I’m busy doing things other than writing here are some things which I have recently discovered to be rather good:

Outbursts – the last track on Outbursts by Turin Brakes
Glad and Sorry – track 3 on CD2 of There’s a Whole New World Out [...]

Sunday, 7th March, 2010

A Quiet Weekend at the Beach

We’ve just had our annual weekend at the beach in Huskisson, and a great time was had by all. Most of us were expecting a couple of quiet days by the beach with the evenings spent in convivial conversation, good food and perhaps a glass of wine or two.
Little did we know that Team [...]