http://www.saferwaters.net Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:23:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I really like the artifacts of a process...all the chaff created by trying to get to the final result. That means I should have started blogging the first time I had the idea that I should do something formal with this. Well...I didn't have the idea clearly until someone encouraged ... http://www.saferwaters.net/first-blog-entry-to-see-that-blog-entries-work.html/ Over the years I've had bosses that have had varying degrees of technical skills. I've tried to see how the different skills did or didn't improve their management ability. Today I've been working on compiling a capacity report that included some performance data. I caught on to vagrancy in the ... http://www.saferwaters.net/the-role-of-a-technical-analyst.html/ I enjoyed my peanut butter and jelly sandwich that my loving wife made for me this morning. Both the peanut butter and the jelly were thick. That reminded me how growing up the goal was always to get by with as little as possible: we spread the peanut butter thin ... http://www.saferwaters.net/peanut-butter-sandwich.html/ I got this via my precious wife, but I am just thankful to God for his provision in raising our kids. Our oldest son Alex (who just started reading everything with pages) was perusing the latest Vision Forum catalog and ran across a description of something that included the encouragement ... http://www.saferwaters.net/defending-his-sisters.html/ From [http://www.arkansasonline.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2007/01/26&ID=Ar03305&Section=Business] (subscription required): "Wong said companies in the marketing industry in general are facing problems with earnings, citing Harte-Hanks Inc., another direct marketer that he watches. Net earnings for Harte-Hanks were down 4 percent in its most recent quarter, compared with a 9 percent drop at Acxiom." I had concluded that ... http://www.saferwaters.net/i-had-concluded-this-was-my-warning-signnow-what.html/ It's a non-scientific measure, but even though the "non-work-days" were in abundance this weekend, the "personal" email wasn't. The only thing we got (except one "almost" thing I'll come back to), was a note from missionaries we try and encourage...and they still illustrate my theory. My theory is that everyone ... http://www.saferwaters.net/everyone-we-know-was-busy-a-good-thing.html/ Dozens of hours spent trying to replicate a problem...and then it went away...on its own. Not only is that a cost of >99.0%, but it's a cost of being proactive. I wonder if anyone's computed how much time you chase smoke when you're trying to get above a certain level...or ... http://www.saferwaters.net/and-that-ladies-and-gentlemen-is-the-cost-of-being-proactive.html/ I again last night turned from Sprit 93.3 FM (some Christmas carols are just not good enough to be repeated as often as they are -- generally talking more secular ones) and when I hit Radio Disney again I was immediately struck by it not being a Christmas song. There ... http://www.saferwaters.net/mind-control-via-radio.html/ My wife has an amazing memory for her younger years. Impressions from getting on the bus when she was 4. How her desk was situated when she was in second grade. Me? Every once in a while I have a blip, but I start to have more when we went ... http://www.saferwaters.net/and-now-they-enter-the-years-i-remember.html/ I turned off the warning whistle today...there are a number of them that drop emails in my inbox. But I can't afford it any longer. At least I'm not supposed to be the one that stops the train or steers around the mountains. It's still very frustrating though...I'm headed toward ... http://www.saferwaters.net/turning-off-the-whistle.html/