Not that anyone but dragoncortez reads this, but on the off-chance...

I have two Gmail invites, and no one to share them with. Anyone who'd like them, let me know. You can either comment here, or you can email me directly at joeysmith@gmail.com

I found it really interesting to read Microsoft's 21 points of shipping great software the other day. Most interesting to me was the warning mentioned in the subject.

I find it interesting because I'm a guy in a room. That is my modus operandi. I have no problem giving status updates, or working as part of a team, but when a deadline looms, and people start to realize that some deadline or another just can't be hit at our current level of production, I've always been one of those guys who takes on the responsibility of finishing someone else's work.

And it's worked just fine. Admittedly, none of the software companies I've worked for have yet to be a shining example of success, but then, I've known Microsoft to miss a release date here and there as well.

So I'm enabling comments on this journal to hear what others think. Is "a guy in a room" always a bad thing, or is this an over-generalize principle?

It's been a long day this week, so I'm taking Friday off.

I've spent a lot of time working in the HORDE code. There are some parts of that code that are really, really elegant, and then other parts are so slip-shod that it's almost as if there were two entirely different methodologies at work there. Still, after all is said and done, it's a useful framework. Saved me months of coding. :)

I think I've finally decided to get on the the Gameboy Advance bandwagon. dragoncortez directed me to one of his friends that gave me some pointers on what I'd need to do to make a GBA into an eBook reader. I think I might go ahead and buy the flash cartridge and download one of the GBA readers and ask dragoncortez if I can try it out on his GBA to see how it looks. If I don't like it, I can probably still get most of the money back on eBay. I just can't see myself playing a ton of video games, but a combination ebook reader and game console...now THAT'S a good idea. :)