Thought of the Day - Requirements Gathering

July 31st, 2006

The most difficult part of requirements gathering is not the act of recording what the users want; it is the exploratory development activity of helping users figure out what they want.

- Steve McConnell

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  Is Disney my biggest fan or just more spam?

July 27th, 2006

So there I was, innocently obsessively checking my blog stats, when who suddenly appeared? Disney. I looked again. Disney? There it was, in all its glory. Disney was looking at my blog. I’ve made it to the big time. I am the man.

I went to the Disney site to find out where the link was coming from. Searched for Spectorbrain - nothing. Searched for blogs - found a boy band site. Oooo-kay - but still nothing.

Confounded, I went back to my stats. 10 Disney links … then 20 … then 30. A day of Disney stats turned into weeks with no end in sight. I sat by my phone, starved and sleep-deprived, waiting to the call. What call, you may ask? The call offering me a cushy job with the huge sign-on bonus, of course. Come on, Mickey, my bags are packed.

I’m sorry to say, however, that all of this dramatic embellishment was for nothing. In reality, it was just some unscrupulous num-nut sending fake referral spam to my blog and other blogs (Burbanked, Affiliate Marketing Journal, Village Blog, Blogging Poet) under the Disney name. Yes, I said num-nut.

But it did get me thinking – why would Disney be interested in me (if they really were)?

10. Walt always wanted to be a web designer.
9. Without any possibility of an original Disney idea, I came up with Cinderella 3.
8. I’m conducting usability testing on Space Mountain.
7. They know that I know what’s really in the vault.
6. My photoshop skills are pure Disney magic.
5. I was their back-up plan if Pixar fell through.
4. Disney wants a blog for “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger 2.0”
3. “Mr. Spectorbrain’s Wild CSS Ride” is opening in 2008.
2. Disney is updating Mickey’s look by exposing his frontal lobe.
1. Who cares? It’s Disney.

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  Comics by Design - The Diet

July 25th, 2006

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