Titanic Project Management & Comparison with Software Projects

Few projects have ever taken on the fame and notoriety of that achieved by the Titanic and her sister Olympic ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, which began design one hundred and ten years ago this year.  There are, of course, many lessons that we can learn from the fate of the Olympic ships in …

The Cute Waitress Problem

This is a life/career issue faced by people in many different career situations but is known as the “cute waitress problem” as that is where almost everyone has seen it arise and were it can most easily be demonstrated. The problem goes thus:  A cute girl works at a diner during high school.  She earns …

Is AppleTV the Next Video Game Console?

Something happened recently in the world of video games.  Something sneaky.  Maybe something that was not even planned. Over the last few years, this new product, called the iPhone and its calling-plan barren cousin the iPod Touch, have come onto the market with little or no thought to being a platform for video games and …

Bones Season 3 Episode 7 Massive Amiga Blunder

So today Dominica was watching Bones, season 3 episode 7.  She came down to tell me that they had put an Amiga from 1987 into the show and that I had to take a look.  Of course, no one in Hollywood bothers to check anything at all or to even state the obvious correctly. They …