Archive for April, 2010
National Metric Day (What?!)
National Metric Week is the week including October 10th, which is (obviously) National Metric Day! (10/10/10) What?! How have I missed this so long? How shall we celebrate?! I have only a few months to plan… ~Geek~
Competence Formula
From my pals at Dictionary.com: competency means “sufficiency to satisfy the wants of life.” Isn’t that awesome? Perhaps a little more specific: competence is “the quality of being competent; adequacy; possession of required skill, knowledge, qualification, or capacity: He hired her because of her competence as an accountant.“ How appropriate that the example given is [...]
Pave the path you’re walking
I’ve said before that design and measurement can’t be separated. The right measurement of anything (training, a coffee cup, this keyboard I’m typing on) is the degree that it does what it’s supposed to do; in other words, what it was designed to do. Assuming that design is about matching the characteristics of a product [...]