Useful Advice

Here I am quoting again from blogs I like. This time from Joel Spolsky's blog, with a graph from a Katie Lucas essay on ostentatious computing methodologies:

How to win a race:

Step 1: write about running really fast
Step 2: go and draw a plan of the racetrack
Step 3: go and buy really tight lycra shorts
Step 4: run really, really, really fast
Step 5: cross line first