Hurray! I love the holiday season because it means I don't have to work so hard to pay attention while driving. Yessiree, the lord sent his only son to earth at Christmas time so I could shop and not worry about obeying traffic rules.

posted by Terrie 8:37 AM [edit]

Monday, November 26, 2001

I'm partial to sending forwarded attachments as forwarded attachments. My friends get a message that contains a message that contains a message that contains . . . Like those smaller and smalller Russian dolls. My friends must LOVE to get these email messages within messages - I imaging their mounting suspense as they open one attached email after another, looking for the "punch line"...

Besides, I don't have TIME to save the original attachment to disk and then attach it in a new, clean message.

posted by Steve 4:54 PM [edit]

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

My comments are very important. That's why I always use "Reply All" when responding to email messages.

posted by Terrie 10:05 AM [edit]

Thursday, November 15, 2001

Meetings always start late anyhow, so I'm just going to plan to show up ten minutes late.

posted by Terrie 10:02 AM [edit]

The form says to enter /onlamp/excerpt/BOOK_CHAPTER/index.html as the filename, so that's what I'll do. I know they want me to substitute actual information for the capitalized items, but it doesn't SAY that, so I'm going to go ahead and make the mistake and keep quiet about it. Then I can feel smug about making more work for the person that made the form.

posted by Terrie 10:01 AM [edit]

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

I like to have meetings. I just say I'm going to have a meeting and give a brief subject like "PR for upcoming book". Then I send that email to EVERYONE so whoever wants to come can come. That way I don't leave anybody out. I don't specify any details about the goal of the meeting or indicate whose areas of responsibilities might get discussed, but it's not really necessary since the meeting is open to anyone. The only thing I don't like is that there are so many meetings I get invited to -- sometimes it's really hard to get other things done! But I guess that's life. I wouldn't want to miss anything.

posted by Terrie 8:21 AM [edit]

Thursday, November 01, 2001

"We will be taking a significantly cut in expenses..."

"...it is our intent to have everything's done by Monday or Tuesday the latest..."

"The key thing to remember is we are successful, we have built a nice company the problem is that in the past people **** convinced itself that it could be Siebel or Oracle, we spent that way, we hired that way, we invested that way, we obviously are not Siebel or Oracle."

posted by Steve 9:08 AM [edit]