Entries from April 2007

Unexpectedly foiled

Date April 30, 2007

Have you ever wondered how a team of extremely creative people might join together and express themselves? Take one vacationing coworker like myself, combine it with a few boxes of tinfoil and you get the funniest prank I have ever been on the receiving end of.

“The Red Zone”

Date April 19, 2007

How much work is too much? In the May 2007 issue of Fast Company magazine there is an interesting article by Joe Robinson titled “The Red Zone”. The premise of the article is that every company has those employees that repeatedly work 60+ hours a week and a common misconception is that these “workaholics” are [...]

hack-a-thon 2007

Date April 16, 2007

Wikipedia defines a “hack-a-thon” as an event where programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. An event where a group of people meet at a specific time to “hack” on what they want to, how they want to – with little to no restrictions on direction or goal of the programming. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) This begs the [...]