Category Archives: rants
Calling All Polymer Chemists/Material Scientists
Things that aren’t alive sometimes act that way. Continue reading
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The Mighty Three, Precincts That Is
OK, I’m taking the gloves off, well, the dusting gloves that is. Continue reading
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Hurricane Irene: So, Make Fun of Us Already
If you prepare well, and bad things didn’t happen, you’re a scaredy cat. If you’re footloose and fancy free, and disaster strikes, you’re a dope. Make up your mind. Continue reading
Bicycle Paths as Societal Mirrors?
We have a wonderful bike path in our town. It was the brain child of two former town officials, who bugged the owners of the old Boston and Maine railroad, Gilford Industries, to donate their train track right-of-way to a … Continue reading
Managing/Governing By Spreadsheet
My career at Digital Equipment corporation was just starting out at the time spreadsheets came out for personal computers. They were a big deal during those days. People savvy with figures (finance, accounting) could get results faster and hopefully more … Continue reading
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The Buck Stops With You
A RAID controller won’t let you swap out one bad drive in a two disc array. Of course, this would probably be the most obvious reason you would have a RAID controller. A backup vendor ties an installation to an … Continue reading
When You Accidentally Start Working For Your Vendor
When you work on a project with multiple departments, agencies, or even one or more external vendors, a fine line exists between being cooperative — team oriented — and performing someone else’s job. Someone else’s job can take the form … Continue reading
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Magnum Iter: New Corporate Strategy?
When your vendors say they are helping you, they probably aren’t. Continue reading
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