From a great little piece by Peter Bright:
"With "enterprise" software, you can often get away with a clunky
program, because the people who are using it have all been trained on
what to do. If doing X makes the application crash, that's okay—they can just be taught not to do X any more."
I'm at NESCent this week. Lots of fun thinking about mechanstic models for species range dynamics.
I was all set to give two talks in a symposium at the IALE meetings in Madison. Unfortunately I was flying American Airlines. They canceled my flight about an hour before leaving. The airport was mayhem with people stranded from earlier in the day desperately trying to get onto flights. It was 4pm and I was talking in the morning. I just went home. No way I would have made it. What is so irksome is that AA knew that the flights would be canceled, but waited until the last minute to actually tell anyone. You've probably heard, but AA grounded its fleet of MD80's for required maintenance.