Archive for December, 2007

Design vs. Code

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Today I discovered and took Andy Rutledge’s little designer quiz.  I got only two questions wrong, and one of them I knew the answer but got wrong on purpose (triangles suck!).  But this doesn’t mean I’m a designer.  It simply means that I’ve been immersed in design ideas for the past year.  If I had […]

The Month of Tragedies

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Today was the funeral for a co-worker.  He was a year younger than me, with an infant son and two very sick parents.  A terrible tragedy, he was cut down by an undetected and unexpected illness with only a week or two of warning.
The pastor at the funeral service exploited the tragedy to the maximum […]

The Macropocalypse

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Wow, this could be very, very ugly.  Years ago, I discussed the subprime situation with some CXOs from a couple of the biggest banks in the US, and they knew then that the day of reckoning would come.  They used words like “suicidal” to describe the banks who brought this mess upon us, and were […]