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You know it's not going to be a particularly good day when you meet with a stakeholder, reach an agreement as to the scope of the work to be done by all three of the participants in the meeting, and walk the ninety seconds back to your desk only to find that the agreed-upon scope has been thrown by the wayside and what's now expected is easily three to five times the effort required. What's worse is even after going that extra distance in the interest of getting something resolved once and for all to have that same requestor ask for even more.
Finally, after spending the better part of four and a half hours of work to not only deliver the ten-minute fix agreed upon as the initial scope, i ended up referring him to the person in charge of the master project schedule because i had work of my own to do and was drifting beyond the limits of my range as both software developer and graphic designer, and was approximately four hours and fifteen minutes beyond the limits of my patience. Today was one of those days where personal defenestration sounded like a good course of action, and mere self control was keeping me from rampaging in the halls, yelling, Samuel L. Jackson style, "Agreements, motherf*cker. Do you keep them?" and slashing at people with a hockey stick.
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Today, I had a presentation to give at work to the CTO, the design-side product architect and a few colleagues about preparations for product internationalization and a proposal for initial regionalization, focused on one initial feature set as a starting point.
Seems i've learned something about i18n and picked up a little bit of the Steve Ballmer edge in positioning a software package to dominate its target market. At risk of sounding a little arrogant, i killed. I know my stuff, had things thought through and presented clearly, got to showboat a little (my sample elements for the presentation included Sir Samuel Cunard and Lord Governor-General Anthony van Diemen- go-go history geek powers) and present international best practices, and just in general owned the presentation.
Hopefully this will be the start of being empowered to do more of this sort of work, because i don't think the company who has anyone else with any significant experience in l10n and i18n stuff, and i'm pretty certain no one gets as excited about it as i do. Properly, i think, internationalization should be handled by a director-level position, because it's going to touch everything in the application scope, and not necessarily all in the same way or to the same extent, but it's going to be really visible if something doesn't get implemented correctly.
With a few minor edits, this presentation (and probably the next step as well- it'd make sense to do them together) is ready to go to the CEO, and the CTO seemed really excited about getting it before him. Wheee!
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I've been playing with Pandora Radio lately, and with mostly positive results.
One station, though has been a bit confusing. Back in the day, I used to regularly listen to a radio show from Tampa called "Sunday Simcha" which played all sorts of Jewish music. I've had a long-lived affection for klezmer music, but discovered a fondness for Yemenite music as well. Finding klezmer on Pandora is fairly difficult, but Yemenite music has been even more difficult. I can't find my favourite- a chanteuse named Adina Orazi (or possibly Arazi), who had a voice i can only describe as liquid sensuality; but can find the somewhat similar (and much better-known) Ofra Haza. Unfortunately, i've yet to hear even a single Ofra Haza song on Pandora's Ofra Haza channel. I've heard Sarah Brightman, Dido, a bunch of Björk sound-alikes, even Annie Lennox, U2 and Duran Duran (!?!). No Ofra Haza. Nothing even resembling Yemenite- or even Jewish- music yet. Weird. Anyone have any suggestions which might unlock a world of Yemenite vocalists?
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