Author: Chris

  • PDF opens even more

    .!. While I (and I imagine a lot of people) thought that PDF was already managed by ISO or some other standards body, evidently I was wrong.  According to a press release issued today they are routing a version of the PDF spec through a process that will result oversight by ISO.  Of course the…

  • BatteryGeek update

    I’m not out of the woods yet, but things are looking up for me getting some use out of the extended battery I bought from Battery Geek. As I posted previously, I had a terrible time at first with them getting a battery that worked.  I sent an RMA in that was gone of more…

  • Microsoft weighs in

    Didn’t know Eddie was blogging, but it seems he noticed our little news yesterday.  I agree Eddie, we have come along way.

  • Microsoft takes notice

    I didn’t realize that Eddie was blogging, but the more I think about it I can’t believe I didn’t assume he has been blogging all along and I should have been reading his stuff. Anyway, he goes way back with UGS and as a Microsoft tech evangelsit extraordinare he knows quite a bit about Siemens. …

  • Phew!

    .!. Sorry for the really slow posting the past week or so, but as you may have seen we’ve been a bit busy at UGS.  We announced last night that Siemens AG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UGS Corp and expect it to close in 60 to 90 days.  This is a really…

  • Really good parody web site

    This is one of the funniest parody web sites I have seen in a long time. Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life Inkheart movies

  • Finally a way to justify my procrastination

    As an engineer (by degree anyway) this was all I needed: a formula to project what I will procrastinate on! Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow — A 10-year study of procrastination provides insights into–and a formula for–human motivation

  • A faster way to get to work

    Many of you may know that I moved last year a bit farther away from my office last year so we could get the farm we had been looking for.  I have about a 100 mile round trip commute each day.  The nice thing about it is that I am traveling against traffic each way…

  • Bad experience with BatteryGeek

    UPDATE: Not sure if this is a demonstration of the power of a blog or not, but I just got an email from the BatteryGeek guys that my new battery is on its way.  I’ll provide another update when it comes.  Hopefully this one will work better than the last. I posted in the fall…