Author: Chris

  • Stalking the newsgang again

    .!. So I hopped on the newsgang live the last two days.  Yesterday was a politically focused show given the showdown in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday.    And I was even already with a juicytidbit from the local Ohio election: there are only 14,000 registered democrats in Clermont County (where I work), but there were…

  • Playing games

    Most insightful post I’ve read today day: Go Big Always – Productivity software should learn from game design. download without evidence free What if our current productivity software was a game. It would suck. We’d be asked to save the princess but not be able to see a map, where the other players are, or…

  • A future for all the script kiddies and geo hackers in second life

    A few days ago we issued a press release (I know, how old school ;-)) on a new feature on the Siemens Innovation Connection in Second Life.  I had been meaning to blog about the addition for a few weeks, but just got caught up in other things.  Maybe this will be the one time…

  • Letting 1,000 Leonardo’s bloom

    .!. This is one of those reports that ‘had me at hello’: The next ten years will see a re-emergance of artisans as an economic force I am only about halfway through the report (only could get in so much over lunch), but is a great read for anyone looking to get an overview of…

  • Kendall getting her ears pierced

    Kendall getting her ears pierced Originally uploaded by aakelley Wow…I’m getting old. watch 2010 in divx

  • Finally – a practical application for a Stirling engine

    As one who has built my fair share of my own PCs and someone who endured a Junior year of Engineering Thermodynamics, this story Missing Lynx movie download has a special appeal to me.  I have always been fasinated with the working model stirling engines that you can sit on your desk, but until now…

  • Etsy the new Ebay?

    .!. John told me about Etsy damien omen ii divx online a few months ago and I checked them out at the time.  Pretty cool concept and way for artists to get an audience and a following that is much bigger than they could likely develop just doing the local art gallery circuit in their…

  • The book that changed my (work) life

    I read the cluetrain manifesto 10 years ago (when it first came out) as I was just starting my career as a professional marketer. This was after being trained and degreed in engineering and working as a demo jock and implementation engineer for enterprise IT software. It was quite a shock moving from the numbers…

  • Cincinnati in the news

    The question is why is it always bad? In my lifetime I can remember a few times when Cincinnati made the top of the national nightly news: Larry Flynt…enough said (just do search – CAUTION: NSFW) The Mapplethorpe photo exhibit…well, enough said again (same thing as the note above) When we won the 1990 World…