McDonald's Honors  Astronaut Chiao for Mission Accomplished [NASA Watch 4/26/2005] McDonald's congratulates NASA Astronaut and former restaurant employee, Commander Leroy Chiao on a successful mission in outer space. McDonald's will present Chiao with a Big Mac sandwich and French fries in Star City, approximately 40 miles outside of Moscow. The McDonald's meal will be one of the first "meals" on Earth Chiao will "enjoy" in nearly 200 days. 4/26/2005 7:39:01 PM    

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A Living or a Life? [Fast Company 4/26/2005] "The trouble with the rat race," the great management guru Lily Tomlin once observed, "is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Most of us must make a fateful choice: should we devote our time and talent to making a living -- or to getting a life? Mark Albion, who chucked a fast-track career at Harvard Business School, proves that there's a third way. The only way to find true "balance" is to make your passion and your work one and the same. "When my doctor asked me how many hours a week I work," says Albion, "my immediate response was, 'I don't know, John. How many hours a week do you breathe?' It's one integrated whole." 4/26/2005 7:27:29 PM    

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Calculate the cost of a scope change request. [TechRepublic.com 4/26/2005] The project manager and project team are accountable for understanding the total impact of a scope change to a project. This article describes the elements that need your attention. Don't overlook this final factor: Deferred benefits. Your project will result in a benefit to the company. If a scope change request results in the project being delayed, the impact of the scope change should also include the cost of delaying the benefit. 4/26/2005 7:21:53 PM    

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Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired? [Slashdot: 4/26/2005; 11:52:38 AM] ZDNet's Between The Lines says yes, one just did. Software startup JasperSoft acquired Sourceforge-based project JasperReports, which involved acquiring the copyrights and hiring the lead developer for the project. 
[Best comment: You -Really- Don't Get This?]"If I own a piece of code, I can do whatever the hell I want with it--including sell it to somebody else. It doesn't matter whether or not I've licensed it out under the GPL or other such Open Source license. Unless I surrender it to the public domain, I own that code, and I can license a GPL version, sell a closed version, offer a crippled demo, auction off a signed copy of the source code for a million dollars, and build an extra-shiny-and-nifty-for-my-eyes-only version--or whatever else I'd like to do with it."] 4/26/2005 7:17:46 PM    

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