I had the privilege to meet Ed Yourdon during a training in Italy some years ago. And I follow his site / blog and his great career on Twitter.
On Twitter I read about his traveling all over the places (recently India and Russia).
I’ve almost never read in his posts a complain like this:
Internet access [...]

Infinito, originally uploaded by PierG -.

Just landed. 2:00 A.M.
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My first visit in India, originally uploaded by PierG -.

Como by night, originally uploaded by PierG -.

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Welcome in Como, originally uploaded by PierG -.

For all software developers: you HAVE to look at this blog UserFriendlyMyAss.com !
I thought it was an idea of my boss but … it isn’t
Great title, great idea, great lessons for all of us (ex-)software developers and, in any case, a very good blog.
PierG

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BBQ Season Opening, originally uploaded by PierG -.

Testing rocks, originally uploaded by PierG -.

Boss <<I have a problem with that service, did you do any action on it?>>
SysEngineer <<no!>>
Boss <<Are you sure?>>
SysEngineer <<yes!>>
Boss <<Are you REALLY sure?? Nothing at all?? >>
SysEngineer <<Well, we did something on the infrastructure but it shouldn’t have any impact on that service>>
Boss <<Are you sure?>>
SysEngineer <<Mmmhhh, wait a moment (… few seconds of [...]

Today I was reading the Herding Cats blog, and above all I was reasoning about the post Estimating, when I noticed another interesting issue about the NASA PM Challenge.
Reading about the conference (Annual NASA Project Management Conference), I found some podcasts about 2007 event I’m going to listen to in the next days: I’ll keep you informed about [...]