Every time someone asks you a question that you don't already have an answer for:
Say "I don't know - but I'll find out."
The worst managers I've ever had uniformly made up bullshit just to avoid admitting that they didn't know something. They made my life miserable, and often caused substantial damage to the customers.
The next worst admitted they didn't know, but then didn't try to find out.
I found a (younger) friend and asked him to be my literary executor. I plan to send him a CD this summer with html copies of all my journals for the past 10-15 years, and all my emails (even the spam) for the past 7. I plan to send it encrypted, and to leave the password with my will, with instructions to send it to him. I'll leave him some $$$, and he's agreed to buy web space and post the entire thing.
This discussion let me to think about also including my CVS repository of all my code. I'll think about this and probably do it.
Now that I think about it, having the password with my will introduces a single point of failure. I need to find a better way to deal with that.
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Every time someone asks you a question that you don't already have an answer for:
Say "I don't know - but I'll find out."
The worst managers I've ever had uniformly made up bullshit just to avoid admitting that they didn't know something. They made my life miserable, and often caused substantial damage to the customers.
The next worst admitted they didn't know, but then didn't try to find out.
I found a (younger) friend and asked him to be my literary executor. I plan to send him a CD this summer with html copies of all my journals for the past 10-15 years, and all my emails (even the spam) for the past 7. I plan to send it encrypted, and to leave the password with my will, with instructions to send it to him. I'll leave him some $$$, and he's agreed to buy web space and post the entire thing.
This discussion let me to think about also including my CVS repository of all my code. I'll think about this and probably do it.
Now that I think about it, having the password with my will introduces a single point of failure. I need to find a better way to deal with that.