We just had a minor earthquake here registering 5.1 on the Richter Scale. I was sitting in the big, open air office at IBM. It was odd seeing the walls move in relation to the ceiling, shrinking and enlarging those usually precise right angles for several seconds. The experience was similar to sitting aboard an airliner undergoing minor turbulence and watching the gap between the interior fuselage wall and the overhead bins expand and contract. At that moment one wonders how smart the structural engineers were.
As it happens I was having a conversation with an IBM technical specialist about risk, to put it simply. We had different opinions about how to manage risk in a specific customer situation, but I think we came to a tentative agreement after the earthquake.
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