Author: Chris
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Fininshed the treehouse
Well the treehouse I promised to Mason on his birthday is finally done. I spent the good part of 4 days over the 4th of July Holiday working on it, but it is done and I think both he and Kendall really like it. It’s just on the edge of being too high at 14′…
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New plugin for WordPress
Just got this new plugin for wordpress that helps create links in posts. It creates a new tag that you can use to auto link text to gada.be searches. One thing I have been trying to figure out is how to link more in my posts. This should help me in that.
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10 days on the road
Ending up June with a bang. Have been on the road for a week and have 3 more days to go. It hasn’t been all business though. Started off last Monday in NYC for 3 days of our annual analyst meeting. I was a little worried because we were so relaxed going in without the…
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Training
This has been one hell of a week so far. I left home on Sunday to go to 3 days of management training. I was a little skeptical, but it ended up being one of the best 3 days of training I have ever gone through. UGS has decided to invest in a leadership development…
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Some themed posts coming up
If there are any regular readers out there you will have realized by now that there hasn’t been much a of a theme to this blog since I started. It has always been a place for me to keep track of what is going on at any one point in time and share things with…
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Welcome Levi
Well our heard doubled in size yesterday. We welcomed Spring for a Partee (aka Levi) to our farm after picking him up in Indiana. We searched for almost 3 months before finding him and we could be happier. He is a APHA registered paint with a bald face and one blue and one brown eye. …
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Live from COFES – Mechanical Conngress
So I’m sitting in the Day 1 congress at COFES (the mechanical version) moderated by Peter Marks from Design Insight. Just a few random thoughts captured from the crowd: Too much functionality / too little functionality (that’s easy for a vendor to address!) Configuration management needs work Interoperability – the topic that everyone wants solved,…
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Too much to do
Man have I been away for a while. There is almost too much that has happened since my last post. Let me see if I can hit the highlights: Made a few trips…to Seattle for an Microsoft briefing, to Plano for an internal meeting. Nothing much to report there, but I did start to capture…
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A few more new gadgets
Picked up a couple of new gadgets in the past 2 days. On Saturday my 12 year old Canon LPB-430 laser printer finallt gave up the ghost. It was kind of sad to see it go – I printed my master’s thesis on that printer. I used Word Perfect version 8 running on Windows for…