Tag: people

This One Time I Screwed up (or Sorry I Was a Dick)

29 March 2015

I don't think there's enough analysis and sharing of non-technical mistakes for others to learn from (see a dramatic hiking trip postmortem). It must have been a year or so ago now, I was sponsoring and exhibiting at a conference. Also exhibiting were a company I'll call FooCorp from an industry that I have a strong distaste […]

How are you?

16 September 2012

When people ask me, off the cuff, something simple like: "How are you?" I sometimes find it hard to know how to reply. Obviously, partly this is an age old "I'm human, you're human, we're both alive" statement with no deep meaning, but usually there's also a genuine feeling of "let me know if you're […]

"Hi I'm An Engineer"

13 February 2012

I've blogged in the past about my difficulties in explaining my job as a Systems Administrator to my parents… Sadly, this also applies to most other people who don't work in an internet related field… and even more frustratingly, I don't have the time to explain it all to those who really want to understand. […]