Why not me?

Turns out NI had a booth at MacWorld this year. I would have sacrificed a few toes to make it to the Mac promised land, but alas, it was not meant to be. The guy in the video even discusses using LabVIEW in a Windows virtual machine, which was the project I spearheaded! Of course, if I would have been manning the booth, I wouldn't have been able to wander around the showroom floor, or get into the keynote...

There has to be a better way to do this.

Bryan, you're good at automation and such. Here's a snippet of some code I'm working on. Click to make it bigger...

Lessons Learned in Running

When it's 35 degrees, and misting, and you've committed to start running, and your wife says "If you go running in that weather, you'll get sick," listen to her, because she's right.

9 Years in a Row!

Well, for the 9th year in a row, National Instruments is on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list. We came in at number 79 this year, up from 86 last year, and above Nike, Microsoft, and Yahoo. I can see our marketing department now--we always put up signs everywhere, and I know they were just aching to put NINE all over everything. And they sure did.

Project Fatass: Day 0

Well, I guess it's about time. (Sorry about the title, Mom.)

Overheard at Test Summit 3

From one engineer to another, in font of about 30 people: "You meant 'negligible.' 'Negligent' is how you are to your girlfriend."

Overheard at Test Summit 2

"You can do this digitally or analogly, and the star on the slide is because 'analogly' isn't a real word."