Bing vs Google

So where was I when I heard about Michael Jackson's death? At a client site, working late... the fellow that mentioned it to me said "How am I going to keep track of how old my Mom is now... she's the same age." MJ was 50, I'm getting old.

So, saw an ad for bing.com on tv tonight, pretty clever. I had heard of bing, but had not yet tried it... well I was trying to remember an obscure auditing concept tonight and given that I couldn't remember the mathematician that it's named after it was an obtuse search. Google failed to return relevant results on the first page. I decided to give bing a whirl and low and behold - I got the answer, using the same search string, on the first page of results - Benford's Law. So, if we threw away everything else from searching over the last 10 years of my life, right now it'd be bing 1 - google 0.

The 3 Categories of Road Warriors

Well I heard today from a 10 year veteran of the consulting gig that there are three categories of road warriors.

1. Those with a chip on their shoulder that entered consulting because they felt unfairly treated.
2. Individuals that are running from something. Could be personal, could be professional.
3. People that were essentially forced into it.

This particular consultant stated he was initially number 1 but that after enough time away from home it became 1 and 2. Not good. We agreed I'm number 3. Thing is, I'm willfully here so I'm not sure I fit any of these categories; probably just as well, none sound very appealing.