Sometimes one trolls one’s archives and finds a gem. Here’s a little ditty I wrote a few years back and then promptly forgot. When I rediscovered it, I LOLed. It’s dedicated to the Consultant. I think you’ll be able to figure out the tune.

Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-dee
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In December I spent a couple weeks in Columbus Ohio, scoping out a new project for work. But things got kind of quiet after that, so the holidays made for a nice little break.

However, you knew that would end. The consulting business usually picks right up again in January, and I was quickly staffed to another projectsince the Columbus gig didn’t ( Read more... )

Work rant. Only interesting to geeks.

I’m working at a client site. Last week I had to ask the person who runs their testing team whether they test a particular feature before releasing their software.

The staffperson figured the best way to find out would be to do a text search on the files they use for testing. Nothing could be simpler, right?
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