Author: Albert Crowley
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…
September 6, 2011
Invitations From the Captain Can Not Be Declined
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. As I’ve aged the kinds of books that I find interesting have been expanding. Historical fiction never interested me as a youth, but as an adult I found a number of authors in this genre…
August 18, 2011
Estimation Is a Loser’s Game
How many times a day do you estimate the time and effort required to complete a project? I bet it is a lot more than you think. Did you recently adjust your alarm clock? Before you did that I expect that you, perhaps subconsciously, did…
July 24, 2011
A rose by any other name…
Over the last couple days I’ve read a few article linked on Hacker News about the “real name” problem on social web sites. I first heard other people talking about this a few years ago when Twitter was taking off. A lot of ‘famous’…
June 20, 2011
Test in Peoria, Test in Düsseldorf , Test in 東京
Have you ever had someone mispronounce your name? It doesn’t happen to me often because I have a simple enough name, but it does bug me when it happens. Names don’t always follow the normal pronunciation rules so it’s not really the…