My presentation material for the 2009 ECIUG conference in Toronto.

 The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner

I originally first came across this book as an assigned reading in Project Management class.  That was some time ago but the book ages well.  In fact my edition was published in 1997 so it was out for a few years before it hit my reading list.

Recently I got a Dell Inspiron Mini 9.  It came packed with version A01 of the bios.  Gee thanks big box store, I'm not complaining, just saying is all.  I was a bit worried because I scrubbed Windows off of it in a matter of hours and it looked like a windows environment was needed to apply the patch.  That was until I saw this.

We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code Code4Lib Issue 5.

I saw this first presented at Access 2008 in Hamilton.  It was a great talk that I think I needed to hear.  The big drawback I think with what Systems departments do is not structure code in a sharable way.  How often do we have time to properly document something let alone add it to a repository.  

Going live with a demo is neato sometimes but it doesn't always work.