Curriculotta

Seeing a “Gulf Disaster – Tracking the Numbers” chart on CNN.COM this morning made me ill:

CNN.COM June 29, 2010, 9:00AM EST

As an engineer by training, and a lifelong technologist, I know there’s no good reason for the shortcuts (more…)

The battery in my backpack sprayer doesn’t seem to hold a charge any longer. Trying to spray for weeds with a battery operated device with a non-functioning battery is a problem! Ordering the replacement exposed one IT organization’s weak customer focus. (more…)

“We have no choice. We have to do a hot cut Friday night. It’ll be tough, but we’ll have the weekend to clean up. We’ll be fine on Monday.” (more…)

I just returned from the Interop New York show. Let’s declare we are interoperable, and still failing. (more…)

A number of years ago, my 11 year-old son came to me and asked me to sign his homework. Being an engaged parent, I decided to actually look at his work. To my surprise, he had been asked by his teacher to complete a project plan for his upcoming math project.

I looked at his paper and realized it asked for the following:

• A list of materials (”resources”)
• Steps to complete the project (”tasks”)
• A draft drawing (”milestone”)
• Due date (”deliverable”)
• His name (”project manager”)
• Parent signature (”signoff”)

I immediately asked when he found the time to go to Microsoft Project training (more…)