Archives week 40 of 2007
Oct. 1, 2007 - Oct. 7, 2007
Long Day (Schedules mean never having a minute's rest... but you feel really good at the end of the day...)
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Knight Errant,
Young Coders.
From about 2pm through to just now I've been up and running. Meeting with a new client, picking up the B2 machine, meeting with a volunteer project manager for the OLPC, trying to re-recruit a sub-contractor for various projects, then off to see a friend play at Free Times (a cafe).
The B2's screen was ...
Messy Jobs are Never-Ending (Clean jobs a disappearing breed...)
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Design Theory,
Knight Errant,
Vindaloo.
Sitting here working I find myself reflecting on the fact that messy jobs are never "finished." By messy I mean jobs that are complex and multi-faceted and have no particular "right solution". In contrast, the clean jobs, the ones where you just need to solve a problem and know that you have the correct answer, ...
Life Management Tools (Need to get using them...)
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Vindaloo.
Someone mentioned yesterday an old "truism" that you have to choose any two of "work, family and friends". I know you don't have to, but it takes a bit more time-management than I've been applying lately.
So, I finally got the "get a calendar and todo list started" task off the todo list. Started off ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.