Rise of the Sequel of the Remake of the Movie Based on the Book as Translated from the Original of the Planet of the Smart Monkey Testing

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/09/smart-monkey-testing.html

How to Sell Testing - Jim Hazen

Jim Hazen has written an excellent article "The secret skill – How to sell testing" in the August 2011 issue of Software Test & Quality Assurance Magazine. You can get it at http://www.softwaretestpro.com/Publication/p/STPM (free registration required).

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-sell-testing-you-should-read.html

Field Pond, Andover MA

Recently, we took the Kayaks out to Field Pond in Andover, for a nice day of paddling.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/kayaking-on-field-pond-andover-ma.html

QA

Kindle Cloud Reader

Amazon recently released a new Kindle "feature", the Kindle Cloud Reader.

• Read your e-books in your browser
• You can access all of your Amazon-hosted e-books, or you can download them locally for offline reading
• Currently works only in Chrome and Safari
  Simple, clean interface
• Can view your entire e-book library at a glance
• Allows you to keep your last-page-read indication "in the Cloud" so you can start reading on one device, and pick up right where you left off on another device

Read more at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/kindle-cloud-reader.html

It wasn't all that bad

Yesterday, I was in a meeting, and felt something unusual. It felt like the room was moving a bit side-to-side - nothing really bad, but noticeable. I looked around and didn't see anyone react, so I thought it was just me.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/did-you-feel-that.html

My wife and I took our annual vacation in York Beach, Maine a little while ago. As usual, we had a great time.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/summer-vacation-2011.html

Matt and Kim at Nubble Light, Maine 

My older son Matt got married a few weeks ago.  It was one of the happiest weekends of my life.

Matt and his new bride Kim love the beach and the ocean, so they wanted a site with both for their wedding.  They chose York Beach, Maine and were married outdoors.  It was wonderful.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/07/kim-and-matts-wedding.html

Nutting Lake, Billerica

A few weeks ago we were able to kayak in a new location - Nutting Lake in Billerica. It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning.  The lake was calm, and just a few folks were out fishing or paddling their canoes.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/07/kayaking-on-nutting-lake-billerica.html

shh!

I've been at my current company for five years now.

It's hard for me to believe that I've been here five years already. Yet when I look back at all we've accomplished, it sometimes seems like more.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/07/five-years.html

If you own a Kindle (or even if you just use the Kindle app on some other device), you owe it to yourself to check out these web sites.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/own-kindle-visit-these-sites.html

Recently, I moved my Glossary of Testing Terms to its own page:

Yet I'm still waiting for Code Freeze...

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/code-freeze.html

Amazon released yet another new (free) game for the Kindle - Thread Words.

Thread Words is a word search game for Kindle.

Your goal is to find words in a 5 high grid of letters. Find words by selecting one letter from each column. On each level there are ten pairs of shapes. Make words matching each shape on the left with the same shape on the right to unlock the next level. After matching all shapes you can continue to find the rest of the words for a higher score or immediately move on to the next level.

The game progresses through 4 levels of difficulty, with grids that increase from 4 to 7 letters across. Each word you find is worth 20 points per letter, and if you find all of the qualifying words you get an 800 point bonus! Try to beat the clock or take your time in relaxed mode. The game tracks separate high scores for each mode.

Read more about it at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-kindle-game-thread-words.html

I was looking for some music related to Testing or QA to use in a presentation.  The pickings are slim, but I found these.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/songs-about-testing-qa.html

WinTask uses the DbSelect() function to query the database and create a result set, and the DbGetFieldString() to retrieve values from that result set.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/wintask-dbselect-dbgetfieldstring.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WFYIMA/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

Recently, Amazon released a new Kindle Game/Thing with Active Content called AdMash.

Read more at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/amazon-admash-crowdsourced-ab-testing.html

The Kindle, with its e-ink black-and-white display and limited processing power, isn't ideally suited to be a gaming platform.  But that's fine, since I'm not much of a gamer.

Still, simple games can be a nice diversion on occasion.  And if they are free, why not?  So when a free Kindle game becomes available, I download it.  And occasionally I play it.

See the games I have so far at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/free-kindle-games.html