Category: miscellaneous

In the recent release and media hype of the two newest “next-gen” gaming consoles, the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Wii, I found an interesting case study in innovation vectors. While we won’t know for a many months who the ultimate winner is (although there are early signs) it is clear there are two paths…

A nice list of free and inexpensive gifts you can DIY from MAKE magazine blog.  Some of the gifts I remember most from my youth are the ones my Grandpa made for me.  I wonder if any of these will be as remembered by their recipients? MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide – Open…

Gingerbread Nazis I bet if the artist would have shown a 1974 Dodge Monaco with two sunglass wearing gingerbread men inside driving through the crowd of gingerbread Nazi’s it would have stayed on display 😉

We had our global team meeting last week in Plano. It was a really good meeting overall. We all put in long hours over the course of the few says we spend together twice a year, so at night we usually have some activities that will let us blow off a little steam. Here you…

Hugh, I’m interested in Microsoft too, but for a few different reasons.  As a large Microsoft partner I am getting ring side seat to a lot of the changes that are going on there and I think it is going to be a classic business reinvention story when it unfolds.  Whether it’s an example of…

In earlier posts I have written about an idea I have that is one of those that just “sticks with you”.  I think I have been successful in convincing my company to go for it and now I need to find some smart people to help me make it real.  So now its time to…

.!. I am writing this while sitting in the Crown Room at the DFW airport terminal E (and, yes my Verizon EVDO works fine here).  I am sitting in the exact same place I was last night at about the same time trying to get on the same flight as I was at this time…

John Dodds does a nice post on the realities of marketing in the Web2 world.  A nice short summization of the already short cluetrain manifesto, which I still read at least once a year.  “Markets are conversations” still changes the way I look at marketing every day. Make Marketing History: The J Train (A Marketing…

Just was poking around there for a few small things and noticed that the images for the RTM version of Office 2007 are up on MSDN for all of you with subscriptions. At least all of you that speak English, German or Japanese as of this post. I’ve been running B2TR with little problem, but…