I've been on one or two 'death march' projects during my years in IT. Each time I just buckled down and got on with it, and came out the other side saying "never again"
But no project I have ever worked on, no company I have ever worked for (even Razorfish, bless their little cotton socks) has ever treated me so badly as EA appears to treat its staff.
Please read this article by ea_spouse on livejournal.
Ok, the new msn search is working okay this morning. I haven't noticed any US bloggers commenting on it being unavailable yesterday, so perhaps it got working again by the time they hit the office.
It's running fast and looking fine. I ran a couple of search terms that I run on Google from time to time, and got a longer set of results. Also ordered slightly differently. Better results? Too early to say.
The tuning feature looks interesting: hit Search Builder|Results ranking - you can prioritise/deprioritise the accuracy of the match, the popularity of the results and the freshness of the results. I can imagine that this would be useful when struggling with large result sets. We'll see.
Perhaps it's time for a sea change on my desktop - a move from IE + Google to Firefox + MSN Search. Yes, I know it's a weird mix, but then I've never cared about the whole MS is good/MS is bad thing. I just like products that work. Strange, eh?