The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Work stuff

| March 29, 2010

So, work decided to radically change the terms under which everyone is employed. Between that and our new and improved corporate strategy, they’re basically facing an exodus of engineers/support/etc. folks. So, if you know of anything for which I’d be qualified, let me know. The sad thing is, this is probably the best job I’ve [...]

Cold Wars Wrap-Up post

| March 27, 2010

I’ve been too busy painting minis and working on stuff to post the last set of pictures until now. Anyway, here are my painting notes from cold wars, and here are the remaining photos:

Customer service – a study in contrasts

| March 27, 2010

One of the things which has come to the forefront in business recently is a resurgence in quality customer service. With the rise of the internet, customer service becomes even more important, because people have quite a far-reaching soapbox these days. Further, people are likely to use that soapbox when they have a bad experience [...]

Cold wars report

| March 12, 2010

I haven’t been blogging much, because I’ve been keeping pretty busy. High points so far: Played in a 5150 (by Two Hour Wargames) game. As the name suggests, it is a pretty quick system, but I’d argue that it was only so quick because half the people knew how to play, and it is *very* [...]