Wow!  I’m looking back at almost 6 months of no posts.  Ironically, those 6 months have produced a lot of good fodder for things to talk about.  I’m about to hit the road again for a new client – so while I’m getting another keycard to add to my collection, I’ll be able to fill [...]

Well, actually 06 as I spent two of them already.  If you follow me on Twitter (@wjklos) – you would have found out first.  Co-workers was 2nd priority.  Blog 3rd.  I may have to change that lineup a bit as my first response on Twitter was a spammer (sorry, no Wave for you) and the [...]

I got an email today asking essentially, “WTF does Fibonacci have to do with estimating?”. Well, my argument starts with the word “estimating” as to me, it’s more about “sizing”. The Fibonacci sequence is essentially a relative scale of effort required to complete a task.  It’s not meant to be an absolute value of how [...]

I guess it’s just part of this day and age when much of the daily communication is constrained to 140 characters or less, that when imposing a constraint on a medium where a limit does not exist, you run the risk of altering the perceived tone of that message.  Especially when the recipient is not [...]

One of the reasons for upping my hosting at mediatemple from the Grid-Service (gs) to Dedicated-Virtual (dv), was to be able to install and run anything I wanted to without having to try clever workarounds to the restrictions in the environment. So far, the extra sysadmin has been offset by the time savings in not [...]

73077,1601. That was my CompuServe member number. As a BBS user, CompuServe was my introduction to the more global world that eventually be surpassed by the Internet. I never did get AOL – and I tried Prodigy for its graphical interface, but CompuServe was always home for me. Oh, and by the way – GIF [...]

I’ve known for quite a while that proper self-promotion and marketing is one of the keys to building a successful “self” as well as career. I’ve had blogs before. Updating them frequently with whatever seemed to strike my fancy during that particular day – either personal or professional. But nexidecimal is different. This site will [...]