Main screen turn on.

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iPhone = iway robbery

So, being slightly involved with the iPhone launch from the ATT mobility side of things, I thought I would post a few interesting links and Facts that I find interesting.

• Craigslist mayhem -- Link
• All Apple Employees, and contractors get a free one
• ATT employees will not get ANY discount on the iPhone even though they helped launch the thing (this includes no discount in the purchase of the phone, and they will not even be able to use it with their employee plan)
• The iPhone uses 3+ year old very slow technology "edge" -- Link (which means, all of the awesome web browser functionality that they tout will be almost useless. Who cares if your mobile browser can render normal web pages that aren't designed for mobile devices if it takes 4 minutes per page.) Silly. Show me the 3G!
• And, my favorite site for people with EXTREME imaginations -- Link

Cheers, and happy iPhone launch day.

a lot of hours

Being a project manager for large corporate wide initiatives you see a lot of overhead that obviously can be eliminated if anyone had the time to look at the redundant activities, and had a knack to do something about them. Obviously most of the project resources, ok a few of the project resources, are intelligent enough to see this, but they are doing all of the work, so are too overwhelmed to do anything about it.

A few days ago, while scanning through one of the many status reports that come into my adipose email box, I noticed the total number of estimated "man" hours it would take to launch a few modifications to a pre-existing billing system.

Just a few foundational facts:

1. This is a pre-existing application
2. The changes were considered minor
3. The calculation of man hours starts after the requirements phase

Ok, Ok, Ok, so what am I getting at? I noticed it said the total man hours needed for this release would be not 2,000 not 20,000 but over 200 freakin thousand hours. Are you kidding me? I could build a functional space ship, fly to mars, eat breakfast with the closest martian, and fly home in that much time, and still have a few hours to hit the "Lusty Lady."

And we wonder why big corporations get a so called "bad" rap for not being nimble.

Brown and WHAT?

What is brown and sticky?



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A Stick.



Ha, I kill me.

The Original Matrix

If you thought the Matrix series had some awesome fight scenes, check this shiz out.

fight

Now stop harassing me about never posting on this thing. :-)