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• RT @sportsguy33: The 4th of July is like one super-slow home run trot as the English stare us down from the mound. Suck it, England! #
• RT @presentationzen: A pie chart of procrastination http://post.ly/16VO #
• When the only tool you have is a suicide bomb, every problem looks like a jihad — Best of the Web Today #
• What a match! Unbelievable… #
• Why didn't God send the swine flu to the Atheist Kids camp? http://bit.ly/EQtfE #

• Really looking forward 2 my 1st ski lesson this weekend! Wait, WHAT?! http://tinyurl.com/cx97xu #
• RT @THE_REAL_SHAQ: Best Dunk ever? http://tinyurl.com/d68vr5 #
• Embracing elegant solutions w/ a philosophy of doing far more w/ much less. #
• How have U changed the way U perform your work in the last week? http://tinyurl.com/cpuuru #
• F’ing gerunds… #
• Dashboard inspiration w/ sparklines: http://tinyurl.com/cdry8t #
• At the rink for IHF finals #

I use charts like this one to track open project tickets, color-coded by priority.

At a meeting last week, I pointed out that the number of open tickets on this particular project had peaked out at 70 and was now dropping faster than the value of my house, at which one of the attendees laughed more enthusiastically than I thought was necessary.

“Why is that funny?” I asked. I mean, it was supposed to be a little funny, but not laugh-out-loud funny.

“I’ve been there,” she said.