Two weeks ago, work’s new office opened. Worth blogging about? As much as anything, I guess!

Buildium had clearly outgrown our old office on Chauncy Street in Downtown Crotching, and on August 10th we opened a new, more spacious office on Franklin Street in Post Orifice Square. Actually, it’s the old State Street Bank building, which used to be ( Read more... )

Because they only last 45 minutes, summers in New England can get pretty busy. Take the past couple weeks, for example. Here’s a day-by-day account of the past 14 days…
17 Wed After a regular day at work, I received a call from someone ( Read more... )

Enough stuff has happened in the past two months that it’s time for another aggregated life update.

Health issues remain inconclusive. After surgery in December, I had another attack of abdominal pain around New Years, which prompted another visit to the GP and a followup CT scan. That detected nothing, so I’m back to eating a regular diet and ( Read more... )

A recent visit to the international restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse got me thinking about the evergreen topic of corporate insensitivity.

Throughout the chain, the staff are required to do a country music line dance at least once per hour they work. That’s pretty demeaning in my eyes, but secondary to something else that wigged me out even more.

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I find myself in the mood to record a brief rundown of the major events of 2011.

In terms of my Buddhist practice, a few nice things happened. I completed a year of dedicated compassion practice, I became a paying member of CIMC for the first time, I began volunteering to read ( Read more... )

Another gem from work.

We’re looking to hire a senior frontend developer. I was given a resume that came in via a headhunter and was asked to comment on it. After eyeballing it, I went to the candidate’s portfolio site.

The third item on his web portfolio looked kind of familiar. In fact, it was one of my company’s primary sites. Wow ( Read more... )

Jul 5:OMA:Can someone replace the older ad code on this page? Jul 6:PM:Assigned ticket to Ornoth. Jul 6:PM:Needs time estimate, may time some time as this is the ASP site. Jul 14:Ornoth:Assigned ticket back to PM. Jul 14:Ornoth:This value appears to be hardcoded in the compiled DLL Searches.Ads.Google.Render. Can't be changed without recompiling ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to observe the 25th anniversary of both the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster… and my professional career.

The Challenger disaster is one of the few news events where I recall exactly where I was. At twenty minutes before noon on January 28 1986, I was at work.

Although I hadn’t finished my undergrad at UMaine, I had just ( Read more... )

10am Monday morning team meeting. Myself and two other staff-level people walk into a conference room that already contains four of our senior folks who are just finishing up another con call.

During the shuffling of chairs, I say in a derisive but perfectly normal voice, “Mmmm… Smells like *management* in here.”

Not one of the four managers ( Read more... )

Huh. I was sorting through an electronic pile of refuse when I came across this little gem I wrote. Not sure how long ago.

Core values: corporations who think they’re important love them. Little do they know that in most cases they’re actually the kiss of death.

Think about it. When corporate leaders formulate a list of the ( Read more... )