[thechat] Suggestions?

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Mon Dec 23 12:02:17 CST 2013


That's brilliant stuff, Martin, congrats. And I'm definitely liking the
move toward Lean as an approach to Agile. Best of luck in the new gig and
the new surroundings. I've heard wonderful things about Stockholm.

Cheers,
Judah


On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Oh, yeah, sorry. I've been super busy too.
>
> Story of 2012/2013 in very few words: spent last Autumn working with a
> team in Stockholm. Loved it more each time I went, and made a few good
> friends from the Lean/Agile community.
>
> Got dragged away from that to do work I hated for a customer I hated in a
> location I hated, so started to think about leaving IBM - also reckoned
> that after a decade, if I didn't leave soon, I never would. Changed to a
> better project but by then seed was sown of moving & started negotiating
> with a few options.
>
> And then IBM made me a redundancy offer - a good chunk of money to leave
> which I was trying to do already. Took the money & ran out of the door &
> took a local contracting role while I worked out what to do next. One of
> the previously discussing companies is based in Stockholm, & have a really
> fantastic role pretty much created for me - definitely not just a "fill a
> slot" one.
>
> So spent a week with family in October as a trial run to Stockholm - kids
> in school, riding the subway etc, house hunting. Family all agreed that we
> should move, with certain conditions agreed with them.
>
> So in January, we move lock, stock and kids to Sweden, and I start with
> Http://www.avegagroup.se
> As a Lean coach.
>
>
> Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
> Martin Burns
> ___
>
> "If you are very strong, you also have to be very nice" - Pippi Långstrump
>
> > On 10 Dec 2013, at 02:10, Elfur Logadóttir <elfur at elfur.is> wrote:
> >
> > Martin's footer woke the giant ...
> >
> > "Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning"
> >
> > why are there Swedish words in your greetings, Martin?
> >
> > What have I been missing, being busy working ... ?
> >
> > /elfur
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 7 December 2013 10:17, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd agree with that (although I'm ex-IBM now). In 10 years constantly on
> >> the move with them, I never had a hardware related problem on a
> Thinkpad.
> >> Unless you're keen on a Mac, I'd recommend Lenovo every time.
> >>
> >> But yes, as always, wipe the vendor installed crap as soon as possible &
> >> replace with a clean Win/Linux image.
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
> >> Martin Burns
> >> ___
> >>
> >> "If you are very strong, you also have to be very nice" - Pippi
> Långstrump
> >>
> >>> On 6 Dec 2013, at 18:02, erik mattheis <shockingelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> After a lot of research and a budget of $2.5k or less last November, I
> >>> ended up with a Lenovo W530. I think it was $2.3k all told, including
> an
> >>> employee discount which is easy to find if you know someone who knows
> >>> someone who knows someone who works for IBM. My priorities were a great
> >>> screen, durability and better than average graphics card. I'm very
> happy
> >>> with my decision.
> >>>
> >>> Were I to do it again, I'd have done a clean Windows install as soon
> as I
> >>> got it as the vendor software has gotten in the way a few times. I was
> >> also
> >>> disappointed that it took over two weeks to get it when the shipping
> >>> estimate was 1 week. But overall, it was a good decision.
> >>>> On Dec 6, 2013 11:39 AM, "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Gang,
> >>>>
> >>>> My home machine finally gave up the ghost this week.  She had been
> >> limping
> >>>> along for quite some time ... the sound card quit a long time back ...
> >> bsod
> >>>> once every month or two.  But now the hard drive boot seems to have
> gone
> >>>> completely pear-shaped ... soooo ... she's pretty much dead in the
> >> water.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have managed to wrangle a nice newish workstation.   (No no.
>  Really.
> >>>> She is one VERY sweet gizmo!  Shiny too!)   However ... she has a few
> >> ...
> >>>> "issues"; namely:
> >>>>      * She's a 'desktop' form factor, while everything else in the
> >>>> house (with the exception of my recently departed machine) is a
> laptop.
> >>>>      * She has no operating system whatsoever.
> >>>>      * Her BIOS is, most unfortunately, set up so that she can *only*
> >>>> boot from the hard drive.  You cannae point her to boot from CD-Rom or
> >> USB.
> >>>>      ;-(
> >>>>
> >>>> But hey!   Other than all that, she really is a crackerbox of a
> machine!
> >>>>
> >>>> <scratches head />
> >>>>
> >>>> Ummm, suggestions please?
> >>>>
> >>>> .
> >>>> .
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her
> >>>> "go" and do stuff!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> RonL.
> >>>>
> >>>> (So far the best suggestions have been --- "Why don't you go outside
> and
> >>>> have a nice run instead?" and "You know you really should spend more
> >> time
> >>>> playing your guitars!" --- which, while most encouraging, don't help
> me
> >>>> check FB or watch cute hedgehog videos.)
> >>>>
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> >
> > --
> > Elfur Logadóttir
> > elfur at elfur.is
> > S: 698 9717
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