I enjoyed watching Westerns. It included a temporal duality: a time long ago (the 19th century Western US) and a recent time ago (the 50s and 60s when these movies were made). So much has changed since both thens, but the absolute distance in years isn’t great: a film made in the 1940s from almost equidistant from me in 2025 as it was to its original time period of the 1870s. Stuff changes.
An experience very early in my career taught me a very valuable lesson about software development.
This was in the mid-aughts (2005 maybe?) and the existing reporting was using Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus 1-2-3. So it needed to go. We had to decide if we should build a totally new analytics suite or utilize the one we already had.
We were funded, but picking a technology path was more complicated than it sounds. This project was for our Canadian offices, and there was more than a little resistance to simply taking what we had and using it. The initial US implementation hadn’t gone well, so the reputation of the system I supported wasn’t great.
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After a very extended break (10+ years?), I’m going to try blogging again.
Things I will probably write about:
I reserve the right to write about anything else I want.
Things I will probably not write about: