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Category: rambling

  • Doing Good Enough

    One of the greatest things about being in Israel is the abundance of amazing hummos places. These small restaurants sometimes serve foods other than hummos, but many times it’s the main course. The hummos here is different than in the US. It’s smooth & creamy, with actual garbanzo or other beans in tact. Of course,…

  • I’m Addicted to GoodReads

    You know, every once in a while you start to use a really great social networking tool, like LinkedIn or Facebook, and the time just flies by. Thanks wholly to Karen, I found a new one…GoodReads. There’s a lot to like. I’m constantly on the lookout for a good tool for keeping an index of…

  • Turn off your Blackberry

    If you’re going to accept a meeting invitation and come to the meeting, make sure you’re not sending mail on your Blackberry throughout said meeting. Get off the phone, and pay attention. Please. Oh, and if you pick up the phone when it rings, I swear I’ll…

  • Never a City So Real

    I’m generally not the kind of person that makes a it a point to read books about cities. Even if I’m visiting or traveling to or even living in an interesting place in the world, I haven’t been known to read about that place. A few weeks ago I picked up Never a City So…

  • Taxi-cab confessional

    I almost missed my flight this evening. Nearly every Sunday for the past few months I’ve taken a flight to Raleigh, NC. This flight is preceded by a trip in a taxi from my house to the airport. Except tonight it didn’t go as planned. As routine turned to complacency, I wasn’t alarmed when the…

  • On the Misleading Lexicon of Agile Development

    Whatever happened to clear, consistent language? Why do we use words that have inconsistent meaning in contexts where they’ll be unfamiliar? Why, oh why? Day in and day out I work with clients in an Agile development setting. I use words that have been trained into me, that I’ve been taught over and over again.…

  • Agile Design, a response to my friend’s quandary

    This evening Kynthia‘s thoughts got me thinking. Among other things, she said: “[W]e design heads get in this place where, just because we wouldn’t be caught dead releasing something into the wild, we think there is nothing to learn from it.” My brain took her thoughts on a tangent and went this way: So since…

  • Meet Josh: Allergy Edition

    Josh is officially allergic to the following allergens: Grasses: Rye Redtop Timothy Bahia Johnson Trees: Ash Birch Maple Oak Walnut Cottonwood (Popular in Chicago!) Cats (Not all, but some) Weeds: L. Quarter Ragweed Thank you, Dr. Rogers, my new allergist for shining a light on the status of my allergies. Let’s hope the new prescription…

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  • It’s been a while

    While perusing a friend’s new site this evening, I realized that it has been a long long time since I last blogged. That’s just no good. A lot has been going on…so let’s play catch-up. Karen’s sister had a baby! That put me in New York City for a few weekends in mid April. Welcome…