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Semantic Dream Analysis

They say that when you start thinking and dreaming in that foreign language you are trying to learn you are finally starting to internalize all that book learning with which you've been stuffing your...

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Temper Temper Temperament

As I've talked about before, one of my current areas of study is personality types. In particular, of late I've been reading up on the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Isabel...

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Irrational Rationals

Continuing on with Keirsey's Four Temperaments, I'll do one post each going into the details of each temperament. I'll start with the Rationals, just because that's what I am (barely).Recall that...

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Artful Artisans

Today I'll cover the Artisan Temperament.Recall that Artisans - or SPs - tend to be concrete in their thinking and communication and utilitiarian in their use of tools. As a result, they tend to excel...

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Guardians At The Gate

Today's Temperament is the Guardian. Recall that Guardians - or SJs - tend to be concrete in their thinking and communication and cooperative in their use of tools. As a result, they tend to excel at...

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Ideaful Idealists

The last of Keirsey's Four Temperaments is the Idealist.Recall that Idealists - or NFs - tend to be abstract in their thinking and communication and cooperative in their use of tools. As a result, they...

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Systin Testing

Jerrad is cooking up Systin, which he's building on top of Systir. All terribly exciting, but wait there's more: he's going to implement something similar to my team's automation stack on top of it...

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Brain Overload

Tell me, please, when exactly it is OK to park here? This is perhaps the most complicated set of parking rules I have seen. I am glad that a) I do not have a car, and b) I do not live anywhere near...

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Driver Wanted

I was walking along, minding my own business, when a sign in a shop window reached out and grabbed my attention:    Driver wanted. Must have valid WSDL.Say what? Applicants must have their own Web...

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AYE? Aye!

I spent the previous two weeks in sunny Arizona. Last week I hiked around Sedona. The week before that I was in Phoenix attending the Amplify Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference. AYE is not your...

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AYE - Sunday

Sunday was a warm-up tutorial by Don Gray and Steve Smith. This was an all-day session meant to introduce newbies like me (and returnees looking for a refresher) to the lingo, vocabulary, and concepts...

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AYE - Monday

Monday morning I attended Steve Smith's workshop on Virgina Satir's Change Model. The short form of this model (see his popular article for the full skinny) is:Status Quo. Everything is stable and...

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AYE - Tuesday

Tuesday morning I took Naomi Karten's Building Connections That Amplify Your Effectiveness. I thought it would be about networking. Nope. (I don't know why I thought that since the class description...

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AYE - Wednesday

Wednesday morning I took part in a writing workshop by Johanna Rothman and Naomi Karten, each authors of multiple books and copious articles. I picked up numerous tips, such as to ask reviewers for...

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AYE - Thursday

Thursday was SHAPE Day, a gathering of those conference attendees who are also members of Jerry Weinberg's SHAPE Forum. We started out about twenty, which number dwindled throughout the day as people...

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AYE - Friday

Friday I recuperated from the week of brain stuffing, intellectual and emotional stimulation, and long days by motoring up to Sedona, where I processed my week (and wrote this) with the assistance of...

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AYE - Amenities

The conference hotel was one of those every-room-is-a-suite places. I found having an extra room helpful even though I wasn't in my room much. The hotel food was standard hotel food which I didn't...

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I Don't Think That's Exactly What They Meant, Exactly

A hotel I was in recently had a toilet:I found that sign over the toilet rather interesting:Um, I can think of at least two other things which are going into their septic system!

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It's A Live (Mesh)!

A year ago I joined a team building a top secret project. Today we threw off our invisibility cloak and revealed ourselves as as Live Mesh. Come on over and browse around. Subscribe to our team blog,...

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CASTing For Participants, Part 2

Some months ago I posted about CAST 2008, how it's not your typical conference, how gobs of Smart Testers will be attending, and how you probably should attend too.The program is up now, and it's a...

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