The customer is town today with a simulator. This meant the necessity for multiple software hacks to allow testing, all needed ASAP.
I had them up and running by 1045. WOOHOO!
It never fails. I start working on a not-approved-yet-but-probably-OK change request today, and after about an hour of code modification the requirements guy sticks his head into my cubicle.
“Hey Chris, don’t know if you’re working on those changes yet, but they should all be OK except for Oil Pressure – there’s some big changes coming for that one.”
What have I been working on for the last hour? Oil Pressure. 
It never fails. I start working on a not-approved-yet-but-probably-OK change request today, and after about an hour of code modification the requirements guy sticks his head into my cubicle.
“Hey Chris, don’t know if you’re working on those changes yet, but they should all be OK except for Oil Pressure – there’s some big changes coming for that one.”
What have I been working on for the last hour? Oil Pressure.
It never fails. I start working on a not-approved-yet-but-probably-OK change request today, and after about an hour of code modification the requirements guy sticks his head into my cubicle.
“Hey Chris, don’t know if you’re working on those changes yet, but they should all be OK except for Oil Pressure – there’s some big changes coming for that one.”
What have I been working on for the last hour? Oil Pressure.
An interesting idea from an outsourcing company: put ‘em on a cruise ship just offshore. Evade the local laws and taxes, but hey, they’re closeby.
Read the article at Computerworld.
[HT: Don Luskin]