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Working From Home

Working From Home

Over the past year, for many of us “WFH” has gone from a luxury to a temporary inconvenience to a running gag on the year 2020 to a possibly permanent lifestyle. I thought I’d share a few tips that have helped me in this new Zoom dominated office. Video Scrum […]

WTF is Section 230?

WTF is Section 230?

Recently there has been a lot of talk about “Section 230”. People either want it enforced, repealed, or reformed. Which is kind of ironic since most people talking about it have no clue what it is. So what is it? It’s actually a very short and easy to understand law […]

Sweet 16

Sweet 16

I just realized that yesterday was the 16th anniversary of my career. I started at IBM on January 10th in the year 2005. According to my retirement account it’s at least 24 years until I can retire. Meaning if I take early retirement I’m 2/5ths of my way through my […]

Stop Lying With Statistics

Stop Lying With Statistics

I had a different blog entry for this week, but recent events have, well, changed things. For those of you living under a rock (and is there room under there for one more) on Wednesday last week a mob stormed the Capitol Building where Congress was in the process of […]

Goodbye 2020

Goodbye 2020

2020 was a crappy year. Citation: everything. But it’s a new year, and one of my resolutions is to start blogging again. After updating a bunch of a plugins and stuff here, I’m hoping no one hacked this site during my leave of absence. Because there were probably a few […]