Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
This reminds me of an incident at my company user expo in Las Vegas a couple of months ago. An hour before the show started, before approximately 2500 customers would be streaming into the grand ballroom, we were all frantically getting our various software demos, lab environments, etc all set up and running. One division of our company sells machinery for printing presses, so in the center of the room was a large printing press with a UV-curing box on the end of it to cure the ink on inkjet labels. As I'm walking through some software issues at my booth, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a flash, and looked over to see the UV box in flames. Luckily it was a small fire, extinguished quickly, but it could have been really bad, especially if it set off the sprinklers. Without skipping a beat I leaned over to my product manager and said, "you know, our product line has had its issues...but in the 13 years I've been here our software has NEVER caught fire."
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This reminds me of an incident at my company user expo in Las Vegas a couple of months ago. An hour before the show started, before approximately 2500 customers would be streaming into the grand ballroom, we were all frantically getting our various software demos, lab environments, etc all set up and running. One division of our company sells machinery for printing presses, so in the center of the room was a large printing press with a UV-curing box on the end of it to cure the ink on inkjet labels. As I'm walking through some software issues at my booth, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a flash, and looked over to see the UV box in flames. Luckily it was a small fire, extinguished quickly, but it could have been really bad, especially if it set off the sprinklers. Without skipping a beat I leaned over to my product manager and said, "you know, our product line has had its issues...but in the 13 years I've been here our software has NEVER caught fire."
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