10. You are using MS Project to schedule the project,
9. and the GANTT chart looks like a waterfall
8. and has a milestone labeled “Shipping date”.
7. You have a marketing agency.
6. Their marketing plan spends the majority of the budget on TV spots and print ads.
5. But hey, they also want to set up a twitter account for you, to “enhance virality”,
4. and a facebook “account”,
3. only to post just their press statements there.
2. You delay the launch date a couple of times, because the “product” is “not finished yet”.
1. Finally, after launch, you realize that you have no money left for further development or support.

I got a new job, more about this soon (maybe).

Read about and created a (free) account on Legend Online – it’s an RPG played in your browser. You solve quests by… waiting. Until a progress bar fills up. That’s right, no frantic mouse button smashing, no grouping, no fights for the best loot… just patience.

One step up from Progress Quest – but not more

Die Bosch Laptop-Wasserwaage

Funktioniert wirklich (bei mir allerdings nur links/rechts)!

It has that universal (Disney’esque?) appeal both to children and adults, because everyone finds different bits and pieces funny. And, of course, like all the Aardman stuff I’ve seen, it is extremely well produced.

My immune system is being unkind to me again this weekend. My coughing fits had gotten so severe that my physician has seen fit to prescribe something unprecedented to the scope of over-the-counter medication.

The sum of my being is available over IM and phone and email, although it is unlikely that we will commune on the same plane of understanding until my medication has metabolized sufficiently out of my biological venue. (…which does not exist in my current frame of reference – the dangerous ramblings of Descartes loom ominously at the fringes of my attentions, all material existence is possibly a malicious manifestation of some mischievous higher power, or with some degree of enforcement of a supreme effort of one’s self epistemology, transgresses too closely to a soliptic weltanschauung of Rhonda Byrne proportions.)

Priceless.

“If you’re playing this game in your office, try not to scream like a girl. It disturbs people’s work environment.”

Word.

Blu-Ray Laser Phaser! – video powered by Metacafe

Do it, now! Take a look even if you are not interested in Ruby, or don’t have any clue about programming languages (quoting a current colleague studying Psychology and working only parttime in my engineering department: “I’m happy that i’ve learned something proper…”).

It is really very strange, funny, disturbing… for a text teaching you a programming language. Bruce Eckel, way to go!