The problem with the idea behind Workplace Poetry is that you can't live your whole life in that state of mindfulness. It's a nice goal, but it's just not realistic. As a result, you may be able to create moments of poetry, but you can't really create the same intensity of focus and care in the choice of actions for always and forever. Stress will ( Read more... )

The power of poetry is in its ability to use a few words and a limited space and/or structure to convey vast ideas through the keys of shared human experience. The experience of reading or listening to poetry should bring emotional and even physical reactions, as the pin-pointed words find their way to exact psychological buttons in the audience. ( Read more... )

When I have a complex problem that needs to be solved and I don't know how to do it, or don't know how to explain it easily, and my team members don't know how to do it, my tendency is to take the problem on myself and solve it. Lately there have been a number of server admin challenges that I've just taken on myself whether I'd actually dealt with ( Read more... )

Over the last two days I've been fiddling with Zimbra. I fired my only on-staff tech support guy last week, and so I ended up doing the whole server install myself.* I'm still in the midst of the migration, but I've managed to get the first two employee trainings done, and I've gotten the CEO's and the VP of Operations' calendars imported, shared ( Read more... )

I promised my youngest that I'd be home on time tonight, unlike all the other nights so far this week, and most of last week. At about 2PM I knew that I was going to have to stay at work until quite late. So, I called the sitter and asked her to bring the boy child to my office sometime before when he expected me to show up at the house ( Read more... )

So, I'm supposed to be getting some business cards at work. They are asking me what my title should be on the cards. I pointed out that my contract says that I'm "Technical Team Lead", but then they asked me again. I take that to mean that they are expecting me to change my title. But what to? Help ( Read more... )

OK, when I started using Aptana I was all, "ooo! This is cool!" But now the "ooo!" has thoroughly worn off ( Read more... )

I wanted to write something yesterday, but now I don't remember what it was I was going to say. Thing is, there was just no time. ( blah, blah, blah )

Just remember that while you take a look at these:

25 Top Paid Men in the US

25 Top Paid Women in the US

Note that the lowest paid man in that top 25 makes more than the highest paid woman on the list. But sexism is a thing of the past. Mmmhmmm...

When I came in to work today, I brought up the dress code thing again during my morning check-in with my boss. She agreed that it was silly and told me not to worry about it. She said that she had mentioned it to me because she was asked to, but that she agreed that this was a non-issue, especially in light of the dress habits of some other ( Read more... )