{"id":290,"date":"2006-08-18T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/MyFavoriteBugBashStripMoreMeetingBusters.aspx"},"modified":"2006-08-18T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T13:04:14","slug":"my-favorite-bug-bash-strip-more-meeting-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/my-favorite-bug-bash-strip-more-meeting-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bug Bash strip – More Meeting Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bug Bash<\/A> started life as an internal MS comic strip by cartoonist and program manager, Hans Bjordahl.  It has a ton of great commentary on the software development process and has also been available outside MS for a while now.  My favorite series of strips is a set of “Meeting Busters – Surefire ways to sink your meeting”<\/A>.  Within that series, there is this beautiful cell: <\/P>
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bug-bash20060626.gif<\/A><\/P>
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Some more back story: when we lived in Colorado my wife (well… girlfriend at the time) and I loved Hans Bjordahl’s comics in the University of Colorado school paper (I wasn’t going to college there, Paula was).  When I started work for Microsoft I noticed the “Bug Bash<\/A>” comic in our internal newspaper had the same character style (which led me to dig up the old clippings I had… and lo!).  When Hans left Microsoft this year I worried we’d loose the regular dose of laughing at the software development industry but Hans has continued to write and publish Bug Bash<\/A> (this was the only sentence without a parenthetical).<\/P>
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I was reminded of it this morning when I came across a CNet article (from February) on how the Internet is changing the business of cartoonists<\/A>.  Tag line: <\/P>
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“See you in the funny pages” takes on a new meaning for cartoon artists who are making a home on the Web.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Here are direct links to the Meeting Busters strips:<\/P>
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