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Category: miscellaneous

  • Making Christmas

    I’ve been doing a little Christmas dreaming lately.  No sugar plum fairies for me t – I’m dreaming of 3D Printers and desktop CNCs.  I’ve been watching these spaces for a while and I think the price / performance ratio is finally at a place where  will take the plunge.  I really am just looking…

  • My 911 story

    This blog started in March 2004, about two and a half years after 9/11.  I’ve done a few political posts and talked about the war on terror, but generally keep it a bit lighter.  On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 however, I feel the need to document my story on that day….before I forget more…

  • Continuous partial work

    Last week when I was in San Francisco for Dreamforce I did a little experiment: I left the MacBook at home and only took my iPad 2, iPhone 4 and Blackberry.  Don’t laugh – this week at our analyst event I am loaded down with no only the MacBook plus all the stuff I took…

  • What I learned about the semantic web by traveling too much

    Last year I had the ‘privilege’ of amassing enough air miles on Delta Airlines to ‘earn’ the status of Diamond Medallion – with a few miles to spare to help me get it again this year, with (maybe) a little less travel. The quotes are not meant to demean the benefits you get with the…

  • Dream a little dream(force)

    I came back from San Francisco earlier today after a few days at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user conference. It was my first time to Dreamforce and what a time it was. Conferences like these are always interesting to me on many levels: what I learn about the core of the conference (in this case all…

  • Summer's over

    Just as quickly as it started it has ended. Summer is over with the kids going back to to school last week and me starting up 6 back to back weeks of travel this week. Overall it was a pretty good summer – as always sad to see it come to an end, although fall…

  • Summer work

    It is that joyous time of year for school children around the world (or at least the ones in dumb countries that haven’t gone to year round schooling): Summer Break. But not for my kids 😉 Summer break means they gt to work on all the things that I think they should know but aren’t…

  • Top 10 reasons that your company shouldn't try social media

    I was inspired to write this post after a few recent bad experiences in the corporate social media world.  No, they weren’t at my employer and no, I won’t divulge where they came from.  It’s the conclusions that are important, not the details of how I got there.  So without further ado, here are the…

  • Genius or idiocy?

    I am not sure on which end of the spectrum to place this ad I saw from Ford:   The ad shows a question from a fan of the new Explorer on facebook on an HTC phone on the Sprint network.  They then answer the question in the ad.  This makes me wonder a few…