Starting next week I’ll be taking a seven week online PMP prep class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. (It was cheaper than the five day course in NYC.) While I’ll be online, I’ll want to minimize interruptions, and I may do some of the class sessions from home, where it’s harder to walk in on [...]
Archive for September 2006
Where's Tom? (Tue/Thu)
September 13, 2006HST MSR News
September 13, 2006Yesterday was the HST MSR, and while there was little news, there is a little controversy brewing. COS and WFC3 are making progress toward being flight ready, though in the case of WFC3 they have some very odd things they need to deal with. The oddest is that they seem to have some kind of [...]
Serendipity
September 11, 2006This morning I couldn’t decide what to listen to on what turned out to be a very long ride into work. So I set my iPod to Shuffle, and the very first song it picked was Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Who’ll Stop the Rain.” My first thought was to run out and get lottery tickets. Of [...]
Librarian replacement requirements exercise
September 7, 2006Sarah Stevens-Rayburn is retiring, and the Institute is trying to figure out what to do about it. Claus Leitherer is chairing a committee to define the future direction of the library, so that we can recruit the appropriate person to take us in that direction. Claus writes: Most of the library users are scientists, but [...]
It could be worse….
September 4, 2006http://community.livejournal.com/_dilbert_strip/117418.html
What should we measure?
September 3, 2006I realized recently that I hadn’t posted in a while. I have a couple PA meetings to complete, and then we’ll start the goal-setting process for next year. Much of this is still very up in the air, because HR is still thinking about guidelines for us. As I’ve told most people, I think we [...]
