There I was, working on a page or two about measuring functionality, when I started writing about the notion that one of the important criteria for a good measure is the ability to verify it.  One thing led to another, and pretty soon I was spending more page length on verification than I was on how to pick good Measures of Performance (MoP).  That made little sense (even to me).  So I stopped working on that, for a while.

In the meantime, I’ve written a basic Verification topic foundation page, onto which I’ve moved most of the issues I’d been discussing on the MoP page.  In that context, I was working on examples for some of the concepts, when I realized that (once again) I had to hold off publication of the topical page because I wanted it to reference the examples…and I hate releasing links that go nowhere because the example page refers to the topic page and the topic page refers to the example.

Anyway, I’ve finally broken the code for creating a built-in category search URL in the CMS I’m using, and back-propagated the result into several existing pages.  Several pages (therefore) now have a “Relevant Examples” link at the bottom.  The link will return the results of a multi-category search (each example being categorized as “Example” AND as an entry under one or more topics).

The Verification topic page is, therefore, released even though the examples are not done yet.  The link will magically self-populate as I finish and release them.  I’ve made a little list, and will complete them presently.  I’ve also removed most of the Verification drivel from the MoP page, and will publish it “pretty soon”.

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In my spare time, I finally got ’round to the lighting and fans in the TV-watchin’ room of the house.  It used to look something like this:

The pink strings are not part of the original décor: they’re just there to assist in the alignment of rails straddling the centerline of the ceiling:

The rails hold a 16″-wide board, which hides the brackets for two ceiling fans, and a lot of wires.  The end result isn’t too bad…

…and the edges (which hide some LED strings) light up at night: The board is 16′ long, finger-jointed from a couple of 8-footers, glued together on that fancy work-bench reported on earlier…

…and lifted into place with an ad-hoc hydraulic lifting jig:

The electrical devices (lights and fans) are all voice-activated, so there was no fancy-pants switching to wire up.

Anyway, now I have to find another excuse not to post very often.

More to come.