It's been a quiet month on my blog. I recently commented about this to a regular reader, so I thought the day before Thanksgiving was a good day to post an entry. Two things recently hit my desk:

Good news, Bad news
The good news (if you believe what you read) is that things are getting better. The bad news is that "better" is measured in the "not as many bad things are happening" kind of way. -- Full Story -- So take heart. If you are out there still working, you are part of the "bone". Hopefully, our industry can go on a training regime that will again start adding some muscle.

A Motivational Poster
I was recently reading an article in Software Development by Robert Martin titled, "The Bottom Line". -- Full Text -- He jokes about how development managers try to motivate the worker bees by giving us posters & coffee mugs with pictures of rock climbers & seagulls. What made this even more humorous for me was that I was reading the article while drinking from a coffee mug given to me by my manager -- the text? "DARE TO SOAR -- Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life". No seagull, but it did include an eagle.

In that spirit and in keeping with the subject matter of this blog, I offer this motivational poster that a co-worker of mine shared with me.