Tuesday, May 31, 2005

I wonder if this was my mother?

Once you start doing project management, you forget what you had to deal with as a developer. The deadlines, the millions of lines of code which infect your every breath and of course, the users. This brought back so many memories, and specifically my first techie job on a helpdesk, where a senior executives secretary had backed up her files every night by photocopying (both sides, just to be sure) the floppy disk that all her word docs was on, and the call from a distraight user who's coffee holder had snapped off (the CD drive...).

Infectious Greed: Computer! Computer!