Category: miscellaneous

Interesting post over on LifeHacker about approaching life with a scientific mindset, specifically as a way to solve problems.  I have long held the view that one of the reasons I have been successful in what I do is my engineering background.  The engineering method (regardless of discipline) is all about focusing on what can…

.!. Great video that gets the key point of Dave Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous in about 5 minutes…take a look if you don’t want to read anything but still be able to keep up with the cocktail party conversation, this is the link for you. YouTube – Information R/evolution Dracula 3000 film

Have already dis-integrated after a few trips through the washing machine. Never really wondered why (assumed they would when I bought them for about $5), but this book goes in to why there are so many RR dealers in China. Chinese luxury market — all smoke and mirrors? – Boing Boing wallace gromit in the…

This needs no comment…but it is laugh out loud funny (the death art excepted). Monkey wars in India – Boing Boing

One customer that presented this week at the Innovation Leadership forum was Jet Propoulsion Laboratories.  They gave a great talk about what it takes to develop new ‘robots” (by their definition anything that moves without direct human intervention) that see some of the most extreme conditions immaginable with some of the most delicate scientific intruments…

I’m heading to Scottsdale today with DeAnna to take a few days off.  Probably just spend some time at the pool, go horseback riding and go out shopping and to some nice restaurants.  Been traveling alot lately, so it will be good to have some slow time before the last big push of the quarter…

When can I get one: Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation film It was a gadgetfest at the PSR today at Microsoft.  At lunch they had the Surface out for everyone to play with.  It was one of those demos that you just tell that the gadget is going to change everything, but have no idea how.…

  Making your competitor’s competitor stronger is always a good strategy Social Networking wars: Facebook v. Google – Oct. 16, 2007 What amazes me is the rapid cycle acceleration going on. MS was a leader for more than 20 years… Google has been in the spotlight for less than 8.

.!. Daredevil dvd For a MS conference, there sure are lots of MacBooks here.  And not all of them are running Parallels or BootCamp! PowerShell – I must not be enough of a geek to get excited about a new shell Software + Services is exactly the right message.  And exchange is an example that fell into…