Saturday, February 25, 2006

Bitten by the busy virus

I have been extremely busy to keep this blog upto date. Well, I have been bitten by the "busy" virus. Yes, I have been extremely busy and I have had no time for blah, blah, etc.

I will try and find more time to blog. Lets see if the busy virus is strong enough to prevent me from my temptation to blog.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, the busy virus got me too...
We are having three different releases of our product being done in parallel (well, almost)...God, this sucks!

Gops.

Balbir said...

I think if Spiderman's uncle were alive he would say

"With new releases and growth - comes more insanity!"

Honestly, three different releases of the same product? I bet they are meant on different platforms

Dont worry, it will pass. In the past the following treatmeant has proved effective for the busy virus

1. Recognizing that you are affected by it
2. Delegating work
3. Spend some time investigating if you are doing somebody else's work.
4. Take a break, breaks help us figure out how insanely and obsessively we have been writing bad code
5. Get somebody to help you review your code
6. Automate manual routines - write tools
7. Don't care - realize that taking a break is also important. Just have a fun day at work

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