Category: miscellaneous

  • Cha-cha-cha-changes

    This is supposed to be the last day the old UGS sign is hanging on the office outside my window. Any minute now I am supposed to be kicked out of my office so they can install a shiny new Siemens sign. Ah, to think how many signs have hung off this building…SDRC, EDS, UGS…

  • The Volunteer Economy – not just an IT concept

    .!. Doc Searls does a short write-up on the volunteer economy and how it related to parsing out what an eventual Yahoo-Microsoft combination would be worth (less than Microsoft would hope) if Microsoft sticks to past behavior patterns: The Volunteer Economy | Linux Journal While the number of real examples of the volunteer economy (or…

  • Microsoft, the cloud and the innovator’s dilemma

    Good post (as always) from Nick Carr this morning is response another good post by Henry Blodget: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Does Microsoft need consumers? Yes. It seems that Mr. Carr is a big fan (at least subconsciously) of Clayton Christensen and his innovators dilemma.  I imagine you have clicked through and read the…

  • Epiphany of the day: Why I am so interested in blogging

    In full disclosure I actually had this epiphany yesterday, but work got in the way of posting about it, so here goes.  I was in some what of a reflective mood yesterday and was remembering some of my earliest days in the working world.  I like to think that I have stayed true to some…

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  • DRM… for your car

     This isn’t exacts what I would expect after paying $80k for a new sports car.  But then again as more and more software makes it in to other products I bet bet we’ll see more and more of this. Nissan GT-R can’t take aftermarket wheels, unapproved race tracks are out – Autoblog download 2010 sex…

  • Google routes around IT again

    This in today from the NEW YORK TIMES: Google Introduces New Edition of Its Hosted Applications Suite – New York Times I have been using Google docs personally for almost a year now. It does everything I need for my own work, and I can get to things wherever I am. May have to kick…

  • Virtual 007

    Look out all you second life avatars: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Spies in Second Life Yeah, that’s right the people you meet in Second Life might not be who they say they are!?!?!  Who would of thought 😉

  • My newest gadget

    I picked up a new gadget a few weeks ago and I haven’t had time to post about it, but I have to say it is a must buy for anyone looking for the best BT headset ever.  It’s the Jawbone boy a movie download .  I’ve used it in crowded lobbies ful of people,…