I contributed the Bug of the Month to the January Between The Lines newsletter. I first blogged about it at the start of the year in a piece about two bugs . One was a system failure at the Seattle New Year fireworks, requiring human intervention to run the show. The story was carried by media around the world. The video of the whole incident is even available .

When I read about the Selenium Users Meetup (SUM), I was excited. When I read the program, I was ecstatic. When I realized the location, I was shattered.

Last year I was able to visit San Franciso for Agile Open California. That’s because I was in Anaheim for STARwest. Now I’m back in Melbourne Australia, so San Fran was out of the question.

Sometime about a year ago I became interested in storytelling. I’m not sure how it started; perhaps I stumbled across a book. I know I started explicitly seeking books on the subject last summer and by the end of the summer my fledging theory was cementing that storytelling applied to business wasn’t crazy.

Can storytelling be applied to software testing? What elements of storytelling can I use? How can I weave elements of storytelling into the work that I do? Those have been guiding questions.

I just got back from having lunch with some friends in town. Actually, I only ate a few mouthfuls of my lunch, and I'm still hungry.

I ordered a "spicy bean burger with fries and extra cheese and mushroom topping". It cost 10 quid(about $20), which is close to gourmet restaurant prices. But it was about as far from cordon bleu as you could get.

“See, there’s always a duck,” I said to my colleague. I’m from the US; he’s from Finland; and we were both in Portugal on business. We’d taken a break from work to take a walking tour in the mild weather. I’d already told him how my youngest daughter had had declared [...]