My weekend project
New job. Long commute. Impending baby. While tending these new demands on my time, I may have allowed a thing or two to slip through the cracks. Yardwork, for example.
Can you pinpoint the property line?
Archive for October, 2005
So much for credibility
As it turns out, there’s actually a fairly big difference between one centimeter dilated and one *inch*.
Oops.
So much for me sounding like an intelligent father-to-be in front of the doctor.
Getting our affairs in order
Yes, it’s been a while. We’ve been killing ourselves trying to get everything squared away before the baby arrives, an event that could happen any time now.
One of the last things on the list is complete. I now have an official will and estate plan. I’m such a grown-up.
As it turns out, it’s pretty handy having a wife who is a trusts-and-estates lawyer.
Life in the newspaper business
Now that I’m back in the media biz (at Boston.com/The Boston Globe), I have a whole new set of competitive challenges. Today’s New York Times does a good job outlining the problems newspapers face today.
Memeorandum
I’ve pretty much made tech.memeorandum.com my browser homepage. They are doing an outstanding job summarizing the top technology stories of the moment. If you’re in the business, this should be one of your favorite bookmarks.
If you lean more to the political, regular memeorandum is pretty good too.
Launch mode
We’re 30 days to our target launch date. We’ve moved obstacles off critical path and outsourced non-core components. Our nightly war room meetings address showstoppers that came up that day. I’m already working on the FAQ.
We hope the launch date (11/4) doesn’t slip. We’re 36 weeks into a 40-week project; now we just need to deliver this baby and bring her home.
Dead Heat
For the past several years, some friends and I have shared Red Sox season tickets out in the bleachers.
Each spring we get together at Flattop Johnny’s, have a few beers and draft our games. My number one draft pick this year: Saturday, October 1st vs. the New York Yankees. It seemed like a pretty good bet back in March that this game would mean *something*.
Today should be a fun day.
