Archive: 2007

January 2007

02: USC 32, Michigan 18
03: LSU 41, Notre Dame 14
03: Rose Bowl Update
06: A Hug from Your Mom
09: Why Asian Girls Like White Guys II
10: Fear in the Workplace
10: Blessed Art Thou
11: The Next Best Thing to Being There
12: What Would Andrew Jackson Say?
14: Lit Quiz
16: I Get All the Holidays -- And Then Some!
17: Ali at 65: Still the Greatest
20: Standard Methods = Standard Results
20: Interview FAQ: How Do You Motivate People?
24: EppsNet's IT Responses
24: What's Left?
25: How Long Should it Take to Define a Project?
25: When is a Release Not a Release?
26: Mallet Men
26: What is Not Worth Doing
27: Miscommunication
27: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
28: What Hockey Players Are Supposed to Smell Like
29: The Can Do Manager
30: Some People Should Be Allowed to Work at Their Own Pace

February 2007

03: Adventures in Driving
05: Super Bowl Ads
11: Going to the Temple
11: Train in the Distance
14: Happy Valentine's Day
14: Valentine's Day Tips for Girls
17: My Neighbor the Fisherman
17: People I Thought Were Dead
18: I Think He Means Smart-Alecky in a Good Way
19: Santayana: "I Told You So"
25: Stupid People and Their Stupid Dogs
27: Roseville
27: Competitively Compelling
28: Life Imitates Art

March 2007

01: Wives and Pugs
01: The Way to Write English
05: Arena Football League Trash Talk
06: Another Reason I Need a Home Office with a Door
09: It Works!
09: Not a Moment Too Soon
12: Thought for the Day
13: Something I Learned Today
14: Everyone Who Disagrees With Me Should Die
14: Charlie Hustle
19: The Halo Effect
21: The Daily Puppy / Jiggs the Bulldog
21: How Ancient Rituals Die Out
22: Predicting the Unpredictable
26: Always Thank Your Dad
29: Drowning in Sewage
29: Hitting a Moving Target
30: Ritual
30: Nothing Can Save You
31: Good News for Meth Addicts

April 2007

03: The Difference
05: Free Advice
05: I Have a Dream 2007
06: The Geometry of Politics
10: Overpromise and Underdeliver
11: What I (Re-)Learned Today
12: Online Map Shootout
13: Cancer is Racist
18: A Well-Regulated Militia
20: Not the Way Ward Cleaver Would Have Handled It
23: Strahan's Wife Has Garage Sale With His Stuff
23: He Doesn't Know Either
23: They Were Not Violent or Crazy
24: OK, So They Were Violent and Crazy
24: Separated at Birth
24: Casey Goes to Washington
25: Blast from the Past
25: What to Do If You're Confronted With a Gun-Wielding Madman
26: Mrs. Bryant Throws the Gyroball
27: On the Gulls' Road
30: Not as Unstoppable as Advertised
30: Vox Clamantis in Deserto

May 2007

01: Lit Quizzes
01: How Many Senators Does It Take ...
02: EppsNet Restaurant Review: Norm's
02: Responses to Tragedy
03: The Perfect Boss
09: Redundancies
09: Money Changes Everything
10: Fortune Cookies
10: The Baby Pugs
10: We Don't Need No Gantt Charts
11: Inspiration Point, Laguna Beach
15: It Can't Hurt That Much
15: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007
17: You Are Free to Choose
18: The Old Game
18: Self-Reliance
19: Foundations of Mediocrity: Scheduling
20: So Much for Dominating the White, Black and Hispanic Kids
20: How Much I Care
21: The Family and the Traditions and the Band
21: Another Reason I Never Put My Kid in Day Care
21: The Daily Puppy / Dudley the Puggle
21: Animusic - Pipe Dream
24: The Left's Iraq Muddle
27: Flamethrowers
27: Choices
27: Greta Garbo at USC
27: Pug Photos from Flickr
30: A Day at LACMA
31: Up the Organization

June 2007

01: T.J. Simers Must Die
05: Coconut Pancakes
05: Safety First
06: The Finer Things in Life
07: Procrastination
12: Another Mystery Unraveled
12: I Forgot About Her
12: Did She Find an Aardvark?
14: Schwaber on Scrum
16: What's Going On?
18: Antipattern: Exactly on Schedule
18: One Grows Out of That Kind of Thing
21: Is There a Drummer in the House?
28: He Looks Almost Lifelike!
29: Professional Enraged Fanatics
30: Go Tell the Spartans to Program a Football Game

July 2007

02: Easy Mac
04: Proud to Be Livin' in the U.S.A.
06: Pacific Cup 2007
09: This is the Way
10: Rather Disrespectful
10: Get to Work
11: Miyamoto Musashi
11: Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007
12: Overheard
12: What is the Use of Knowing the Evil in the World?
12: Why I Got Into Management
13: Off to Florida
25: The Saddest Cartoon I've Ever Seen
27: The Intellectual Climate
27: Hat Trick
27: Free Ride
27: The Claw is Our Master
29: My Dog Comments on the Local News
30: Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
30: Why Men Make More Money Than Women
31: Time Waits for No One

August 2007

September 2007

01: The Hard Way
01: Beating the Heat
05: Definition of Marriage
05: A Waste of a Morning
06: Killer Popcorn
06: Life Lessons
14: Advertisement for Myself
15: Tricks of the Trade
19: Follow Your Heart
19: We Get Letters
25: I Love My Work
27: This Week in Sports Parents Must Die

October 2007

01: An Open Letter to My Former Employer
04: Be Prepared, but Don't Overdo It
07: EppsNet Labs: VoiceXML RSS Reader
07: Slaves of Things
07: Getting to Know You
07: Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?
08: People I Thought Were Dead
09: No Progress in Aviation
14: Gore Wins Nobel Prize, High Court Gives It to Bush
14: Pug Photos from Pugtoberfest and Flickr
14: School Choice
14: More School Choice
18: In Fair Verona
19: Job Posting
21: Setting the World on Fire
22: Fire Update
23: Ashes to Ashes
23: A Lesson in Leadership
25: No Serenade, No Fire Brigade, Just Pyromania
25: How to Destroy Creativity
25: Greed
28: Crime and Punishment

November 2007

01: Lost
01: Halloween 2007
08: Got a Job
09: Too Close to the Piano
09: Hola, Estúpidos
09: Don't Argue About Things That Don't Exist
11: You're My Dad
17: Pastagina
17: A Missed Opportunity
17: It Seems Obvious in Retrospect . . .
19: Have We Lost Perspective?
19: Community Leaders
20: The Wicked Messenger
20: The Dog Ate My Homework
22: Subprime Sinkhole
22: What Am I Thankful For?
24: A Message That Sticks
27: Iceland is Not a Good Place to Live

December 2007

01: Evel Knievel, 1938-2007
01: A Taxonomy of Freaks
04: Open Enrollment
05: Death to Meetings
06: Pricey Pet Photos
06: Our Time is Passing Us By
12: Disturbing Sight of the Day
12: Ike Turner, 1931-2007
12: National Champions
15: President Obama
16: Father-Son Greeting Cards
16: The Conversationalist
16: Absolute Rule
18: Dan Fogelberg, 1951-2007
24: Rethinking Success and Failure
24: Declaration of Interdependence
24: Why There's No UCLA Store
24: I Hold in my Hand a 63-Page Requirements Doc
25: 50 Years Ago Today
25: Informed Consent
25: A Christmas Story
26: Schedule Crunching
26: Blame Roger Goodell
26: Lightning on the Balcony
26: Pug and Chihuahua
26: Another Difference Between Dogs and Cats
28: Torvalds on Specs