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Introduction (Found via Brett Petersel, Twitter) So, EA is publicizing a new game called Dante's Inferno, and they chose a contest at Comic-Con to promote it: Sin to Win. There's a decent synopsis here. Take a picture with a ''booth babe'' at Comic-Con, tweet about it with the hashtag #lust, repeat the process. Executive Summary Bad ...

After years of complaints, Comcast is disclosing its (kind of) Unlimited Internet Service and Always (sort of) On Connections are, in fact, neither. An AP story today summarizes: The company — the country's second-largest Internet service provider — also said it was justified in using ''reset'' packets to break off communications between two ...

Introduction Anyone remember Match Game?  Gene Rayburn would ask questions and make statements with a ''blank'' in them. Contestants would then try to guess wich word a celebrity panel would use to fill in the blank. Here's a Match Game-like statement that falls under Expensive Management Practices ...

Art imitates life, or is it the other way around? Consulting is a business, but it is also about life and is a form of art. Television is also business, life, and art. Have you seen the television show Deal Or No Deal? There are 26 closed cases. Contestants choose one and must open the others one at a time in batches of 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

Steve Rowe has an excellent post on why we should revisit process and procedure from time to time.  :{> Andy

A long long time ago in a place far far away... A project for a large retailer started with a project mangler er, manager and a lowly database developer. The project manager ''had once been a developer'' and fancied he still was. The database developer also ''had once been a developer'' but hadn't practiced the craft in several years ...

Change happens. It's inevitable. Accept it and life will probably be simpler. Entropy (a physics concept) plays a role in change. How? Entropy is the natural tendency for things to unwind, wind down, age. It's a recognition that, all things being equal, things will skew slightly towards a lower energy level, towards settling. A friend ...