Author: Chris
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Good bye old friend…
We had to say good bye to an old friend today, Gunner. He hadn’t been doing so well for the past 9 months and in the last 2 days took a severe turn for the worse. Looks like he had Leukemia and had also suffered a stroke in the past day or so. He was…
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I love New York…in March
I was in NYC yesterday for the Microsoft launch of their “people ready business” initiative. We got in to JFK around 6 on Wedneday night and then headed straight to dinner at Tabla, a Danny Meyer restaurant. I love his restaurants, especially Union Square Café. Tabla is an Indian inspired restaurant and it was a…
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Happy Birth Day
My kids b-day today…5 and 7…where has the time gone?
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Google Buys Maker Of 3D Modeling Software
InformationWeek | Google Acquisition | Google Buys Maker Of 3D Modeling Software | March 14, 2006 This is wild. I know about and regularly use Google Earth. I’ve even “flown” through the Grand Canyon and San Francisco in it. However I never really equated that with Google being interested in a 3D modeling company. I…
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Origami vs. 770 – telling of the future
I for one did not get too caught up in the hype surrounding the recent announcement of the Origami (or much less original name, the UMPC). I am a regular Tablet PC user and have been somewhat interested in the new small tablet offerings from Motion (the LS800) and the combination Tablet/Pocket PC that is…
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Heading to NYC next week
I’m on my way to New York next week for a big event with Microsoft. Can’t say much, but they will be making some interesting announcements in the business space to make them a little more competitive with the boys up state. Stay tuned…
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Testing a desktop blog writer
I am writing this from a new tool I just installed on my work laptop to be able to post from my blog without logging in to the web interface to wordpress. The tool is w.bloggar. I am trying this out for a few reasons: It will let me blog on items I see in…
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Dassault buys Matrix: good for them…better for us!
Dassault Buys MatrixOne (by W. Bradley Holtz) Obviously I am a bit late in getting this up on my blog, but here it is nonetheless. I am also a little biased here, but overall I think this is a good thing for the PLM industry and a good thing for UGS, the company I work…
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Cool jet…and one of our customers!
Eclipse 500 Personal Jet Now in Production Boy the posts are just flying off today with w.bloggar This might be making it too easy to blog. Anyway, just saw that the Eclipse jet is hitting production. I’m not sure what it is, but 1.3M seems very attainable for a jet. What’s even better is these…