Category: miscellaneous

  • Back in Europe this week

    I arrived in Barcelona yesterday morning. Only here for a few days, but when I got to my hotel from the airport my room wasn’t ready so I checked my bag, grabbed my camera and hit the town  After walking towards the big hill (it looked a lot closer than it turned out to be)…

  • When pigs fly

    Yesterday I ran in a 4 person marathon relay team in the 9th annual Cincinnati Flying Pig marathon.  I ran the 4th leg of the relay which is a 6.9 mile distance.  I have been training for a few months with my team from the RC Durr YMCA. I have to say it was much…

  • Another SL Tour

    Just a quick link to a SL tour I created a week or so before launch. Far less polished than the official tour (and the voice work is terrible ;-)), but thought it was worth linking to if you want a ‘linear’ tour of what we’re up to there.

  • Alternatives to SL

    When we launched in SL last week, one of the questions I got a lot was: “did you look at any alternative platforms”? The short answer is yes, but only briefly. At the end of the day we looked at the user counts in SL and it was a pretty easy decision to make. On…

  • EU clears our deal

    EU approves acquisition of UGS by Siemens | Technology, Media & Telecom | Reuters All that’s left now is a few signatures, a big check and I’ll have a new business card. This time things do feel a lot different than the last. I listened to the Siemens execs at Hannover Fair a few weeks…

  • And my wife wonders why I gain weight when I travel…

    .!. This layout was in a meeting I attended on Tuesday….for 16 people. And what’s not in the frame was a 2 x 4 foot cake that was wheeled in for someone’s 25th service anniversary. I guess there’s at least some diet sodas and a few pieces of fruit.  I need to find a treadmill…

  • May you live in interesting times

    Well this should make things interesting as we move in to Siemens… Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

  • More interesting reaction to UGS in SL

    Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Do You Need a Second Life? « Coca-Cola, UGS, and Reuters, it’s been the subject of much press coverage in the last few years. Nice to see us mentioned in the same breath as Coke and Reuters. Fallen Angel dvdrip

  • Day 1 of UGS in Second Life

    The reaction to the launch of UGS Innovation Connection in Second Life has been very positive so far. It seems that most people in world ‘get’ why we would want to be there and are giving us a chance. It also was evident that after a 3 minute demo at our user group yesterday even…