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The Wikipedia page about Bob. Toward the end are links to his archive site.
It's kind of strange to read about your grandfather on Slashdot. Here is the forum page created shortly after his passing. A lot of Y2K puns I'm sure he would have enjoyed.
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Todd's I.T. Glossary
Meeting(s) - The antonym of productivity.
Deadline - Refer to "Marathon Coding."
Marathon Coding - Refer to "Deadline."
Singleton - A "global variable" without all of the negative press.
Store and Forward - An information delivery architecture modeled after the human digestive system.
No - A word rarely heard in the Marketing and Business units. However, judicious use of this word by the Engineering unit actually causes milestones to be achieved and on schedule.
Multitasking - A methodology highly regarded and touted by management and guaranteed to increase your percentage of unfinished tasks by at least 500 percent.
Disaster Recovery Planning - A project task that is normally begun roughly five minutes after the first system crash and data loss on a final production release.
Stakeholder - One or more persons connected with a systems project and have expert knowledge of both Microsoft Project and stopwatches.
Some Favorite Quotes
"It's all just one big test to see how much you can take before you snap!"
-- My friend Jeff
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-- Albert Einstein
"With regard to managing people, Bob didn't believe in burning out developers and he thought there was a lot of life to be had outside of the office. I'm pleased to learn that he was active to the end. I'll never forget him."
-- Dennis Hamilton
Other Quotes-n-Blips
* Meetings cause meetings.
* Software has nothing to do with computer science and everything to do with politics.