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  • Good fall weekend

    We had a party at our place last night. Had about 9 adults and 11 kids over for some fall fun. We had a hay ride, a bind fire and a ‘drive in’ movie on our back porch (I borrowed a projector from work and setup a simple screen with a bed sheet). It was…

  • Why does European Diet Coke taste better?

    I’ve heard that they use different sweeteners in the regular versions of Coke (beet sugar in Mexico, Cane sugar in the US), but I had never heard that the Diet Coke artificial sweetener in Europe was different than the US.  I wish they would have used the European version in the US years ago…I would have…

  • The worst wifi connection page ever

    Do you have any idea what I am supposed to do here to get connected?  I clicked around for 10 minutes and then gave up…maybe it was the 90 minutes of sleep I got last night.

  • One word

    Unbelievable! How much worse can this story get, and yet the Dassault stock seems completely uneffected. Airbus’ A380 megajet is now a full two years behind schedule—and the reason, CEO Christian Streiff admitted on Oct. 3, is that design software used at different Airbus factories wasn’t compatible. Airbus: First, Blame the Software

  • A cool app from UGS that I can explain to my Mom in 2 minutes

    I just got done with a presentation at our user conference on one of our newest technologies: Geolus Search. We got ahold of this from sd&m this past summer and have made a number of enhancements since then. It occurred to me that we created a lot of videos for my presentation and I should…

  • There is at least one Sun in Second Life

    I guess it was only a matter of time.  The audience and the cost savings is just too big to keep companies from using Second Life as a communication platform.  A press conference and a trade show seem like naturals for Second Life.  Wonder what you could do in WOW? BetaNews | Sun Takes Press…

  • PLM Europe – Track sessions day 1

    I’m splitting my time this afternoon between our partner sessions and our JT Open track session.  I had John go to the JT Open sessions with the recorder, so hopefully we’ll get some podcasts of that up soon. The partner sessions started off with a presentation from a long time partner of our, Matthias Mond…

  • PLM Europe – Open Keynote Presentations

    For whatever reason, I was able to adjust to the GMT +1 time zone with no issues.  However, it didn’t matter so much since the event started today at 10:30 to allow for local travel.  The opening keynote was delivered by Tony.  He did a great job of reviewing our performance and outlining the vision…

  • Guten Tag, Frankfurt

    Just arrived in Frankfurt for our European user conference.  The flight was packaed, but I actually managed to get 4 hours of sleep.  I have booth duty tonight, so I will try to make it in to town after that. Hopefully they don’t roll-up the streets at 6 PM, but since it’s Sunday, I may…