This glacier is moving
Thursday, June 7th, 2007As a part-time songwriter, I look for images or phrases that tell a lot in a few words. The metaphor that has been coming to me lately is a hiker on a glacier. The glacier represents the student project. It seems stationary sometimes, but if you reflect and think about where we were last year — even where we we 8 weeks ago — the darn thing is moving! Just recently we came up on the Oracle database for the first time. Integration testing, training, and load testing (aka “the benchmark”) are all begun or soon to begin. You can’t feel it just by standing still or when you are trudging along. And when you are in the middle of it, it seems to have no beginning and no end. But if you pick a reference point, and watch closely, you will notice that a lot of things are in motion. We can do this.
I can’t think of a song written about a glacier (Icy Blue Heart by John Hiatt is the closest in my mental jukebox). After go live I think strum some chords and I’ll give it a shot.




