May Day

May Day

Joel has a piece today on the importance of testing your software before you ship it. Reading this brought back horrible memories of working at Wybtrak in 1997. We would do only the crudest QA on our software before it went to our clients. Granted, there wasn't a huge need to, since our software was basically some complex FileMaker Pro databases, but there was no dedicated support personnel, and we routinely finished creating a new version MINUTES before it went to the clients.

I got all set up with PayTrust this weekend, it looks like it'll save me a great deal of time and hassle paying my bills each month. How long until I can get rid of my checkbook completely?

I just got a replacement motherboard from Quantex for one of our machines. I think I like Gateway's motherboard replacements better, they send the motherboard with the CPU and RAM already installed on it, you just pop it in where the old one was. Quantex apparently trusts me to install the CPU and RAM myself, which is fine with me, but they didn't include a motherboard manual! I'd better not need to move many jumpers...

I watched the movie The Insider this weekend, you can find it on video now, or my preferred choice, DVD. Anyhow, the movie illustrated, at least to me, that probably the greatest threats to our freedom don't come from the government, but rather from Big Business and the lawyers they retain. That said, I don't think we should kill all the lawyers as Shakespeare suggested, but this movie made me acutally think, as opposed to much of what Hollywood churns out...