prone to enthusiasms….
There’s something wonderful about the Siebel architecture. I’m pretty sure I don’t like Tom Siebel, and I’m generally hostile about his sales staff, but the product he sells is a delightful place to go (yes, I think of programming environments that way). Siebel Tools is a marvelous construction, both complicated and obvious; remarkably well thought out and well laid out. While the design approach is unexpected and very complex, the execution of the design is simply sweet.
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Bureaucratic Whimsy
Semi-Geekery
Posted on
February 26th 2004
Bought a copy of the original CS&N album from iTunes yesterday, and am listening at work. Suddenly it’s 1970, and I’m back at Fort Huachuca. Amazing.
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Musicks
Veteran Testimony
Yarns and Tales
Posted on
February 24th 2004
When we got to work this morning, there was a sign on the cafeteria door announcing “Closed for Inventory.” Seems the contractor-proprietors of the operation had been invited to leave. We weren’t particularly surprised, but it would have been nice if we’d been warned.
Filed under Bureaucratic Whimsy Posted on February 23rd 2004
There were some changes. Robbyn was quite emphatic that the niche specialties had to go, and that teams would be assigned to work most projects. Management, meantime, had cut back our authority: We were downgraded from division to section, we were explicitly enjoined to work through management on all projects, and we were required to secure approvals for tasks we’d formerly done on our own authority. While these changes partly reflected the reality of an inexperienced analyst staff, it was also clear that the new managers wanted more control of the decision-making process.
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Bureaucratic Whimsy
Yarns and Tales
Posted on
February 21st 2004
My first encounter with a stereo headset was in high school; my friend (and choir seatmate) Vik Berstis insisted that there was something magical about the device, and forced me to listen to–well, I really don’t remember what. But I did agree about the magic.
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Dear Old Macalester
Life's Stories
Musicks
Posted on
February 12th 2004
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