What Martha Is Teaching Us

The media is about five minutes away from overkill on the Martha Stewart story, but don't expect that to stop editors and producers from pushing for more Martha stories. The domestic Goddess makes for good ink and exciting television play. A&E, the normally staid entertainment network, is rushing out a Martha program and is promoting it by using sound bites from the federal prosecutor's press…

Google Has Been a Mess – Take this Time to Prepare

I just wanted to ask you if you have had anyone complain recently about Google and their rankings? I normally rank #3 or #4 for the search term "custom glass". In the past few weeks I have dropped to page 4. The weird thing is that an unrelated hosting company appears on page 1 of the search results. They have nothing to do with custom…

Fear of Non-Progress

Most middle managers love to see source code. They love to see reams upon reams of source code, the earlier in the project lifecycle the better. This to them represents progress. If "90%" of the project code has been written, then the project must be "90% complete".