Monthly Archives: July 2007

Chances Are It’s You That’s Stupid

In my expe­ri­ence in the soft­ware devel­op­ment world, peo­ple tend to have one of the fol­low­ing three reac­tions to a new tech­nol­ogy or process: This is so stu­pid. I can’t do this, please do it for me. I don’t under­stand, can you help? You can learn a great deal about a team mem­ber or employee just based …

July 26, 2007 – 11:14 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology, Work | Comments (0)

Why Less is More

The more I work in IT, the more I real­ize how insight­ful the Pareto prin­ci­ple really is.  While it doesn’t apply directly to IT, it cer­tainly rears its ugly head here a lot.  For exam­ple, to this day, years after a cer­tain devel­oper left who shall remain name­less to pro­tect the guilty, we have code …

July 25, 2007 – 7:05 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology, Work | Comments (0)

Random Brain Dump Post

It’s been 2 and a half weeks since I wrote any­thing and while I don’t think I have any­thing of note to note, I’d hate to get out of practice.  So this is a ran­dom brain dump post where I just write for a lit­tle bit about pretty much the most bor­ing stuff in the world. …

July 23, 2007 – 2:45 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

“We’re Spreading Toilet Culture”

No words suf­fice, just make sure and see the slide show.

July 6, 2007 – 11:51 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, International Affairs | Comments (0)

Our Mainstream Media Lets Us Down

Remem­ber the story last week about the 20 decap­i­tated bod­ies found in Iraq that was splashed all over the major out­lets? Yeah, it wasn’t true. The Amer­i­can peo­ple are left in the dark both by their own politi­cians elected to serve their inter­ests and by an inde­pen­dent media that seems to be any­thing but. Some­day, prob­a­bly …

July 3, 2007 – 7:19 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in International Affairs, Politics | Comments (0)

God’s Prayer Response Technology

I’ve always won­dered how God decided to answer prayers and what prayers had prece­dence over others.  I think I’ve finally fig­ured it out.  God uses Microsoft Mes­sage Queu­ing for his prayer aggre­ga­tion and his queue server went down last year, at least the queue server that took in prayers for rain in the DFW area.  …

July 2, 2007 – 9:10 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (0)