It's Valentine's Day, and last night I ascertained that all the girls in my 
MBA classes, in whom I would
be interested, are married. 

<p>
After last class, a review of <a href="http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm">significant digits</a> was in order. 

<p>
In the past, when I've converted my TeX files from PostScript output 
to Portable Document Format using ps2pdf, the font rendering in the PDF looked like 
garbage. This finally bubbled up to the front of the 'must research' queue, and 
the answer is to use pdftex (part of <a href="http://www.tug.org/teTeX/">teTeX</a>).

<p>
Today was a much better organizational day than yesterday. Brady made the point
that we should have a management issue escalation mechanism. Basically, we
have a communication problem in identifying the severity of an issue for 
people (what you may think is issue-ful, I may think is a non-issue). To deal
with this we set up a quick protocol, if you see an issue, send an email to 
the management layer above you with:
<ol>
<li>description of the issue
<li>date you need issue resolved by
<li>date you need a progress report from the immediate management layer
</ol>

If the progress report date is missed, call a meeting with the manager and 
another manager to ascertain what happened. If the resolution date is missed, 
call a meeting with the manager and the manager's manager to ascertain why
the date was missed. 

<p>
I'm feeling kinda sick, so I'm happy it's Friday. I can take some vitamins,
drink a bunch of water, and sleep in. 

<p>