Ah, well I suppose there are silver linings behind some clouds. I will be released from my job at the end of May. For the past two years,...

I suspect, Steve, that our IT paths were very similar with regards to the age and knowledge thing. In my case, I started out with support and learned the...

Or, as a good friend of mine used to say: Mary &!%$#@ Poppins Perfect!

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I had the same experiences with Atkins. One thing they fail to emphasize, additionally, is the bad things that diet may do to some people's cholesterol levels. Mine...

Smoking and coffee are definitely the two worst vices that I see plague our development staff. Currently I do not smoke but I drink too much coffee. I've...

Oh, man, I have to laugh at some of these responses. It's very easy to see who the uber-geeks are, and who has spent only a handful of years...

rbarryyoung (10/20/2008)

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Andy Warren (10/20/2008)

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No one going to pick on the violinist? Hard not to understand his point, but no points for gracefully accepting a little adulation.

Most of us worry about...

That, and a culture of planning everything around...

Well, I've seen my share of blowhards and brainiacs, and I think that manager-managed relationships require a significant portion of empathy, as well as solid management skills, on the part...

jcrawf02 (9/11/2008)

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...C'mon. Crime is the fault of the criminal, and idiocy can NEVER be a crime, we don't have enough jail space. Life is a liability, live at your own...

I don't think that there is a "fine line" so much as there is a huge environmental difference. Schooling may begin as rote memory exercises, but the core basis...

Taking a walk and chatting with friends works fine for me. In fact, all of the best programmers in our shop are good because they seek occasional diversion from...

It's too bad that we didn't hear about the funny doings which led to losing the purse.

GSquared:

I can sympathize. We do what we can with what we have. When I walk the dog, I often still get an annoying shin splint feeling in my...

About 10 years ago, I could say that I was fit. I worked out at the gym four nights a week, played a lot of volleyball, jogged in the...