!Vote Here! New Version of Windows Live Hotmail Sucks

Tell me you noticed how crappy the new interface is. It’s embarassing to think this is professionally developed content. They tried to blow it off by saying it’s better:

A cleaner, more customizable look
Up to 70% faster access to your email
Easier access to your Windows Live Hotmail contacts

And yet this is what they delivered:

It’s bunk. Back [...]

Is your project out of control?

Recently I have been ruminating on why, it seems, all the projects I have worked on as a contributor over the last 3+ years have missed their dates, customer expectations, and, I presume, their budgets (with one too brief respite, which I will get to later). There are many references on the web that can [...]

Really now?

As seen on the web (emphasis mine):
Recent surveys by the consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide indicate that while nearly half of US employers believe stress from long working hours and demands to produce more with less is influencing business performance, only 5 percent say they’ve taken strong action to remedy the situation.
And they wonder why…
…many people’s [...]

A new workplace low

Here’s about the stupidest thing I have heard, well, today. Evidently I am no longer allowed to write my weekly progress and near-term intentions in my company’s project tracking solution. Management has indicated that the field has been re-purposed to support a “special executive” report. WTF is that?

This is just the latest insult (in a long [...]

Integration irritation

Gotta admit it – the more things change, the more they stay the same. So here I am, trying to hook my Twitter posts in with Plaxo Pulse, and I keep getting this extremely unhelpful dialog box telling me I don’t exist:

 
So at first I figure, maybe it’s a batch process that hasn’t updated, or [...]

More fun with passwords!

I’m sure I am not the first person to have this thought, but it really sucks to have to change my password for my work PC every 90 days. Just about the time I am used to typing it in, Bang! I have to change it again and start the process all over again. All [...]

Meetings, oh meetings

It never ceases to amaze me how meetings can suck the productivity right out of your day. For instance, this week I had no less than 3 separate meetings to go over the same content: 2 internal and one external. And that was just for the main project I’m on. There were also 2 full [...]