Welcome to our old friends and greetings to our new readers. Mabel & I decided that after 14 weeks we needed to show a little bit of our pug size and give some well wishes. We are immensely appreciative of being given the forum for sharing with you a little bit of us, a little bit of technology and a little bit about the human factor in software engineering. Does it sound like a farewell speech, don't be confused or mislead.... we are far from giving up this jewel of an opportunity.
Recently we were asked about the topic, "The World is Flat". We read both accounts by Rob Preston from InfoWeek as well as lot of opinions generated by the Peanut Gallery. What did we conclude? We concluded that there are allot of opinions, some are founded, some are not, few are conclusive or decisive, and everyone is impassioned. Some with the position of throwing a controversial topic out on the table, while others are impassioned through self-preservation. The world IS flat in many ways; communications (although we could do much better in the human dimension of using some face-to-face tempering the electronic form that is far to convenient to use), travel (now if we could only do something about travel comfort for all.... yes Mabel, no more traveling in the belly of an aircraft!), cultural awareness (we still need to work on learning that other cultures need to be respected, and that as guests that we need to be respectful), and the act of kindness (refer back to Week #12 'Pass It On'). It's okay to disagree and to share, but we only ask for one thing... take this privilege and be responsible in your use of the privilege.
Another week and we are ready to retire for the day. We look forward and encourage your emails. If you are lucky enough... we might even share your pearls of wisdom with others (and we will do so responsibly).
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