I have now being working on offshoring initiatives on and off for 3 years now. I have worked on defining processes for moving work from one location to another location, recruited offshore resources for a testing team, and managed that testing team on a… more »

...with a score of 85%. I can now use the letters ISTQB after my name. When I was growing up, it looked like a good idea to go into one of the following three areas of endeavour; the military, civil engineering or medicine, since in all of those areas it… more »

I flew to the UK for the annual gathering of the clans (pictures of the trip can be viewed here). When trying to decide what seats to select, I now use SeatGuru, which has excellent diagrams of all of the major airlines' planes, showing which seats are… more »

The province of Sealand is up for sale...the owner has finally decided to dispose of his own country. Anybody want a prime piece of ocean-front real estate? more »

I have not been posting to this blog for some time. The main reason for that is that I have been going through a divorce, so I have been taking care of a lot of personal business. I will be working in Seattle in Q1 2007, and I plan to restart postings… more »