Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Thoughts on "The Ten Faces of Innovation"
One of the few things I enjoy about long plane rides is that it is probably the only time left that I can get caught up on my reading, especially books. I just finished Tom Kelley’s (no relation) book “The Ten Faces of Innovation” on the flight to Phoenix today. Overall it was an easy…
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One the road again tomorrow…week 2 of 4
Leave at 6:15 AM tomorrow to Phoenix. Who is booking these flights!!!
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Selling a video card over on Ebay
Check it out if you need a good gaming card or want something that will run Vista with full glass effects. eBay: NIB XFX GeForce 6800 Xtreme AGP 8x 256 MB DDR3 Vid Card (item 110039721985 end time Oct-06-06 17:26:33 PDT)
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Getting closer to moving from MythTV to MCE
I have been running a Linux MythTV box for almost 3 years, but in the past few months, I have been thinking more and more about converting to Windows MCE. The first straw was the problems I continue to have with the HDTV Tuner (the HD3000). The second straw has been the incredible heat the…
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CATIA causes Airbus tower of Babel
Looks like this story is starting to get a little bit more mainstream. This is a well known issue with CATIA insiders. While I’m glad to see this aspect of the story getting more exposure, I’m puzzled by the proposed solution by “experts”: “They didn’t have uniform design tools throughout the system and that’s biting…
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Heaven is RSS Syncronization
I admit it: I am an RSS junkie. I can think of no better way to kill 5 minutes or an hours than catching up on my feeds. I started out with a number of different client side readers until eventually settling on Feed Demon last fall. I used it happily for a few months…
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OK, all together now
Well the migration seems to be complete. I have all of my old blog posts moved over and more importantly all of my customizations and plugins. It was a little harder than I thought, but not impossible. Ended up having to re-post the few entries I made before I got access to the MySQL database…
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IBM get’s it – on two levels
I have been reading Irving’s blog for a while. He always has some of the most extensive, well though out posts of any of the subscriptions I have in my “deep thoughts” folder. What struck me about this post is that it’s aling the same lines as something I have been playing around with in…
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Microsoft Fading?
A compelling summary of why Microsoft strategy lacks a critical piece. Of course hey have faced hard times before, but this may be fundamentally different. There is a big debate going in in the ISV community over who to buddy up with. This is certainly something to consider. » Ray Ozzies vision lacks an economic…