Monthly Archives: June 2003

When kangaroos fight back
This is the funnest thing I’ve heard in many days at Andrew Forward, highlights shamelessly copied here:
Australian virtual reality simulator for helicopter combat training wanted to include the local marsupials’ movements and reactions to helicopters. Being efficient programmers, they just re-appropriated some code originally used to model infantry detachment reactions [...]

Blog updates
various small changes to the blog Template making it flow better, and adding an email address in such a way to defeat the spam bots. Also experimenting with a windows based blogging editor called wbloggar found via Lotus Domino blogger Extraordinaire CodeStore, which will hopefully lower the number of spelling errors, even if [...]

Murphy is a alive and well, and managing your project
Found on Rules In Project Management (more stuff there to) via Globe and Mail. I feel like I’ve lived many of these over the years, which is not a good thing…

The same work under the same conditions will be estimated differently by 10 different estimators [...]

Now I want to drive a Mini Coopers
Saw

Latin for the Day: i.e. and e.g.
I can’t remember where I originally saw this but I found another link here
The Latin abbreviation i.e., which stands for id est, means that is, that is to say, or in other words.
The letters e.g. stand for the Latin phrase exempli gratia, which means for example.
the above link [...]