Peter’s Soapbox

Join My Network on LinkedIn!

I love getting these invitations to connect with folks on LinkedIn. Apparently, when I chose to name my company “Paradigm Consulting Co.” it was not the most original name I could have chosen. (I knew that, but hey, it was the mid-90’s and “paradigm” was a popular buzzword.)

Here’s the message I got: Continue reading Join My Network on LinkedIn!…

Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly

(Possibly originally posted at http://somehedgehog.livejournal.com/245807.html - if anyone does know, please contact me so I can give proper attribution.)
GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you.  What do you do?

OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it.

MCCAIN: OK, seriously.  Why does he have so many henchmen?  I’m a level 72 ranger and he’s only a level 8 paladin. Continue reading Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly…

Sample Conversation With a Client

Client: We have a problem
Me: Okay, can you describe it in detail?
Client: Not really. Continue reading Sample Conversation With a Client…

When Life Throws You a Curve Ball…

I apologize for having to speak in riddles and ambiguities, but hell, it’s more fun anyway.

So last night, the wave I’ve been riding (which is my term for just accepting the things life throws at me which can’t be changed anyway) dipped out from under me. Continue reading When Life Throws You a Curve Ball……

Painful Lesson on Legacy Software

My mom is in the middle of a (potentially painful) lesson on legacy software. Namely, don’t use it. She has… *ahem* had all of her addresses in an ancient copy of Parsons Technology Addressbook 7.0. I forget exactly how many years ago Bob Parsons sold to Broderbund and they killed the product off, but it’s been a while. Complicating matters, the software appears to use a proprietary format MS Jet database to store the info in, and I’m having trouble (read “okay, what possible formats could an ABA file be?”) opening the stupid thing with anything but a text editor. Continue reading Painful Lesson on Legacy Software…