connections

That was an interesting experience.

The team has been keeping the details of our job flow in a spreadsheet, with one column saying which job's completion is a requirement for that other job. I'm in charge of our latest release's job flow, and have been implementing the spreadsheet changes in our test environment, but something was bugging me. I then spent more than one hour going thru those requirements, turning them into a flowchart using pen & paper. That made it obvious that some connections were missing, and that not even the contracting agency we pay boatloads of money to had noticed it.

That sound you hear is me patting myself on the back.

taken to task

I knew I'd be taken to task for calling another netizen sanctimonious. So it goes. He *is* a sanctimonious blankhole, but I'll confine such language to my own little corner of the blogosphere.