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Aug
31
2007
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
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No way! A friend at Yahoo! just emailed me this link
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Jun
03
2007
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
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So, my life in Hawaii is actually quite close to what I wanted it to be, but someone thought I am a good CTO and invited me for an interview back to the Bay Area. Cool company, lots of problems in the product but nothing a good team couldn't fix - and the money to do it, all of it.
I am flying out tomorrow morning, returning on Wednesday. Of course, Friday will see me flying out again - to Honolulu, to get a complete check-up at the Kaiser clinic after my doctor here is afraid I might have had angina, precursors to a heart attack.
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May
22
2007
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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Et in Arcadia ego. How odd it was to buy a one-way ticket to Hilo, how odd it is to sit at the Starbucks and not have to check email or anything else.
The morning was gorgeous, as if to make up for the short night. The plane was crowded, and getting out took forever, especially since this time around I had to check-in luggage - how else was I going to get the cherry jam to Paul and Charlie???
Lazy day, today. Will have to run a million errands, of course, but at least I decided to skip the gym. Bad start of a wonderful relationship with Hawaii time?
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Apr
24
2007
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Great but now can we learn from our past mistakes of the 1990's?
Mistake
1: Thinking IT is on top of the food chain. No we are not IT is on the
bottom of the food chain we need to service everyone. You may get paid
more then the other guy and you may be more skilled but who ever you
are doing work for is your boss.
Mistake 2: Not being
professional. You should not stand out as the IT Guy because everyone
else is wearing business casual and you are in tee-shirt and jeans. It
is unfair and wrong but it is the way it is you need to dress to fit
in. Otherwise you make people uncomfortable if they are uncomfortable
your job can be at risk.
Mistake 3: Saying No. They need to get the job done just not doing it because you personally don't like it will not help anyone.
Mistake
4: Saying Yes. Being Blind to problems without brining them up in the
beginning and getting someone else above you involved in a solution
could lead you working on a quagmire.
Mistake 5: Thinking you
are better then everyone else. Just because they don't know the
difference between USB and Firewire doesn't make them stupid. Just
because you do doesn't make you a genius. Respect the people you are
working with, and they will respect you back.
Mistake 6: Respect
your boss. They are a lot of bad bosses out there also a lot of good
ones. Even if your boss seems to be cut from Dilbert you should give
him the respect that they deserve. For being in that position. It means
things like not publicly humiliating them and when arguing your point
try not to make it personal.
Mistake 7: Trying to change the
world. Don't try to change the world just try to make your work
environment better. Put your feelings about GNU, Patents, Microsoft....
Aside and focus on getting your work done.
Mistake 8: Money
doesn't matter. It does always keep an eye on how you are effecting the
bottom line. You can save 10 minutes a day in computation but the cost
for you to make that change would take 100 years to recover the costs
then it is not worth doing.
Mistake 9: Work should always be
fun. If that was the case most people wont have a job. You need to do
the annoying stuff as well as the fun stuff. They hire you to do the
stuff that others can't or are unwilling to do.
Mistake 10: You
are separated from the business. Try to be involved in the business not
make yourself a separate identity who just fixes the computers try to
keep IT involved in the major decisions.
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Apr
20
2007
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
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 Not a great many stories start with the sentence: "So, I was at the Border's store to get on fast Internet, when I wandered off to the classical CD section." Admittedly, sounds like a nerd crossed with a geek meeting a dork. What can I say? Is growing up in Europe an excuse?
In any case, I was perusing (that's a nerd term for you!) the CDs when I noticed the "4 for 3" special in the store. I scoured the place for 4 CDs that might be interesting, paid for them and put them in a bag to be forgotten for a couple of days. Who knows, maybe stale classics get pepped up by a few hours in the Hilo sun?
It's Friday night, and instead of going out to have fun in Hilo (Hilo sun, Hilo fun, am I like paid per oxymoron?) I hang out at home. I mean, really, this place is swanky and I'd rather commune with the cows and pigs on the Marco farm than with their counterpart cows and pigs in town!
Time to unwrap a CD. I choose this wrinkly collection of Mozart piano concertos with recordings by "revered masters" (read: cheap!) and on the second CD I hit pay dirt.
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