Salutations men & women of the cloth (and of the Internet)! Our beloved Andy Grove who delivers his dear reader(s) weekly with best practices has become buried this week, so in his stead, I will be leaving my video format to bring to you “Best Practices”! Allow me to dust off my thesaurus and wordsmith [...]
Continue reading...3. March 2010
Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, your beloved Best Practices blogger has been accused of chicanery and shenanigans! <Pause for horrified collective gasp> I know… I know… I can’t believe it myself. Unfortunately however, it’s true. There are, sadly, those out there whose jealousy runs deep in the black cavernous tunnels of hatred they call veins. I [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2010
Although it seems like I start every one of my blog posts these days with some commentary about the weather in Austin, yesterday’s events were so momentous that I would rather be labeled as a formulaic writer than not disclose what occurred to you, my ever so loyal reader(s). According to the National Weather Service, [...]
Continue reading...17. February 2010
The sun has once again returned to my beloved city of Austin, and thus I am once again my happy-go-lucky, cheerful self. Thanks be to God for this Ash Wednesday full of brightness and vitamin C. It’s put me in such a good mood that I’ve even forgiven someone for cooking fish in the microwave [...]
Continue reading...10. February 2010
At the moment, today’s Best Practices looks like much of the east coast… cold, unforgiving, and covered with white and not much else. I hope everyone out there is staying warm as you continue to be hammered by snow. Normally I would complain that it’s cold here, but since I can still see things out [...]
Continue reading...5. February 2010
If you’ve ever lived near a small lake, river or pond, you know that shallow, stagnant water is less than desirable. It carries more than a stench: a thick, humid, putrid cloud of gnats and overall nastiness. When a drought ensues, and all that remains of a once beautiful oasis, is a thin layer of [...]
Continue reading...3. February 2010
Today is Wednesday, and it is raining heavily in my beloved Austin, Texas. The weather forecast calls for rain for the next 48 hours at least. I don’t recall having seen the sun since this weekend. What, you might ask, does any of this have to do with a blog post about best practices for [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2010
Apologies for my extended absence, my loyal reader(s). The intrepid souls that populate the halls of faithHighway are so devoted to their work, that some choose even to come to the office when infected with unidentified strains of the influenza virus. While I admire their devotion, if someone here gives me the flu or any [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, as a man of the north I am usually not prone to the lack of weather tolerance displayed by many of my friends and co-workers who were born with the thin blood of those who do not know the joys of a white Christmas. However, this week in Texas there is no [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2009
Greetings and salutations to you, my loyal reader(s) on this, the penultimate day in the year of our Lord, two thousand and nine. I bet you didn’t know that a sentence could have that many commas and not violate some unspoken rule of grammar. Actually I may have, but because this is a blog and [...]
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10. March 2010
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