Month: November 2006

It’s that beautiful time of year when everybody watches the colors. No, not the changing browns and reds of the foliage, but the red and black numbers on P&L statements. That’s right – it’s budget time. In order to build a good database budget, we have to ask our managers a few key questions: Are…

The ever-brilliant Jeff Atwood wrote a fascinating blog post about why building software is hard: it’s never been built before.  He was following up on a similar blog post, but in a nutshell, software projects are harder than construction projects because they’re nothing like projects at all.  Every time we build a new piece of…

I finished my first 5k race last night, and I look forward to more of ’em. My official time was 37 minutes 46 seconds. I placed 40th out of 42 in my division (30-34 year old males), 415th out of 496 males, and 866th overall out of 1163 runners. The average male ran 30 minutes…

Today, I signed up for my first 5k race – well, my first race period – the 12th Annual Fantasy of Lights 5k. While this will technically be a race, I will in no way be judging my results by the time it takes me to finish, or where I finish in the pack.  I…