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Blogs Will Change Your Business

Are you blogging?

Is your company?

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From http://methodsandtools.com (in February)

Our last poll question was: How many weeks of training on software testing have you completed in your professional life?

None	43%
Less than one week	19%
One week (5 days)	7%
One to two weeks	7%
Two weeks to one month	6%
More than one month	18%

Number of participants: 240

Meaning that testing is not given the priority it deserves. One of the main reasons that projects fail is Inadequate Testing. Remember my Article What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It’s Never Going To Work? Right there is is standing:

I wrote that article in 2003. Think anything has changed since then ?

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Scene: Distant future, in a clinic where a cryogenics patient, who had had himself frozen in expectation of a cure for his illness, is being revived.

Patient: What year is it? How long have I been asleep? Tell me about the present.

Counselor: This is a little difficult to explain. A cure for your illness was found ages ago, but it was not considered a kindness to revive people from your era– too much of a culture shock. However, we do occasionally bring back a few if we think they can contribute to society.

Patient: I’ll do anything I can. What is it about me that makes me an asset? And you still haven’t told me what year it is.

Counselor: The year is 9998— and your biography says you were a COBOL programmer.

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A friend of mine has recently taken on the task of helping a British Artist get back on his feet again after a 12 year gap away from the market. See www.anthonyjohngray.com

His life was turned upside down when a business partner of his borrowed funds from the bank using Tony’s work as colllateral. This partner then left with the money leaving Tony with huge debts. He lost his home and financies and he and his family had to move into sheltered accomodation. For 5 years they went through a living hell of being poor and destitute. The only thiny that kept Tony sane was his painting.

He is now getting his life back in order and wants help to get his name known again.

If you take a look at his biography on the web site you will see that he did many art shows in the US and was even given a Honery Member of the Town of Palm Springs.

The stories behind each of his paintings is fascinating. I have asked him to start writting documents to describe each piece which will be sold with the work.

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