Eschew Obfuscation

It’s been quite some time since I first ran across Giving good report but from time to time, I come back to it just to keep myself in check.

If you’ve never read the paper, you should. [0] It’s by a gentleman whom I’ve never met named Richard Threadgill.

Basically, it is a plea to all technical workers to keep management informed about what they’re doing. For many of you, this may seem a simple concept but I’m pretty sure all of you know someone that is being described by this paper.

I’m lucky enough to have a boss that has been amongst sysadmins for a very (VERY [1]) long time and understands the oddities common in our profession. He’s good at extracting the information if someone isn’t good at giving it.

[0] Yeah. I just should on you
[1] I’m talking Multics old.

written by halfdime

My wife has started blogging recently (actually, before I did) and has been spending quite a bit of time on making her blog nice.

Tonight, she asked me if I would like to blog on her blog as well as this one.

One caveat though:

“You have to blog in English.”

As an explanation, she went on to speak of my lack of speaking in English when I’m talking about what I do.

Interestingly enough, I’m struggling to come up with what I think is valuable content for this blog. I can only imagine the drivel that would arrive on my wife’s lovely new space if I have to provide non-technical content.

Wish me luck!

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