Category: miscellaneous

Man have I been away for a while. There is almost too much that has happened since my last post. Let me see if I can hit the highlights: Made a few trips…to Seattle for an Microsoft briefing, to Plano for an internal meeting. Nothing much to report there, but I did start to capture…

Picked up a couple of new gadgets in the past 2 days. On Saturday my 12 year old Canon LPB-430 laser printer finallt gave up the ghost. It was kind of sad to see it go – I printed my master’s thesis on that printer. I used Word Perfect version 8 running on Windows for…

We had to say good bye to an old friend today, Gunner. He hadn’t been doing so well for the past 9 months and in the last 2 days took a severe turn for the worse. Looks like he had Leukemia and had also suffered a stroke in the past day or so. He was…

I was in NYC yesterday for the Microsoft launch of their “people ready business” initiative.  We got in to JFK around 6 on Wedneday night and then headed straight to dinner at Tabla, a Danny Meyer restaurant.  I love his restaurants, especially Union Square Café.  Tabla is an Indian inspired restaurant and it was a…

My kids b-day today…5 and 7…where has the time gone?

I for one did not get too caught up in the hype surrounding the recent announcement of the Origami (or much less original name, the UMPC).  I am a regular Tablet PC user and have been somewhat interested in the new small tablet offerings from Motion (the LS800) and the combination Tablet/Pocket PC that is…

I am writing this from a new tool I just installed on my work laptop to be able to post from my blog without logging in to the web interface to wordpress. The tool is w.bloggar. I am trying this out for a few reasons: It will let me blog on items I see in…

It occurred to me tonight that I have been investing a lot oft time getting myself organized so that I can know what I have going on.  From integrating GTD into my personal system, to adopting Mind Manager and OneNote, there are lots of tools and techniques that I have picked up so I can…

As regular readers will know, we recently “bought the farm” in the literal sense. We moved in in November and have essentially settled in to the house proper. What remains to be “settled” are the workshop (looking quite empty with my 2 hammers, portable power drill and circular saw in 1200 square feet), the barn…