Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Microsoft Speaks at the UGS User Conference
Sanjay Parthasarathy, the Corp VP at Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism spoke at the recent UGS Analyst Event on June 20th in NYC. Hear what he has to say about the Microsoft – UGS partnership, the importance of the manufacturing segment to Microsoft and the future of applications. Sanjay P. at UGS Analyst Event
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Taking a break for a few weeks…
…I bought an X-BOX 360 over the weekend. Just couldn’t resist anymore. Was in Best Buy over the weekend and saw a few premiums just sitting on the shelf. Only have one game, Project Gotham Racing, but so far it is definitely a step up from my PS2. It’s so good it’s making me want…
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The Manufacturer.com – The illusion of openness
The Manufacturer.com – The illusion of openness Interesting article from one of my favorite pubs out of the UK on manufacturing. We have been talking about an SOA strategy at UGS for over 5 years. In some ways it was forced upon us rather than a grand vision because of the needs we had to…
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General Motors getting vehicles to market faster – Autoblog
General Motors getting vehicles to market faster – Autoblog This is good news for one of our biggest and oldest customers, GM. It seems that they have at least solved the TTM problem, which had been an issue for many years. Now if they could just get more “inspired” designs like the Sky and Solstice…
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Microsoft WPC Day 2 – off to an odd start
Day 2 at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and things got off to an odd start. There was an accident in the feeder to the Ted Williams tunnel last night that has backed up traffic all over Boston. So as a result Microsoft decided to postpone the entire event by 30 minutes, so as a result…
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Microsoft WPC Day 1 – not much to report
Arrived in Boston this morning for my 4th Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The trip up was uneventful except for running into the Dad on one of Kendall’s classmates at school…who was piloting our plane! Headed to the Hotel (the very nice Westin Waterfront) and had a few conference calls to attend to. After those were…
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Fininshed the treehouse
Well the treehouse I promised to Mason on his birthday is finally done. I spent the good part of 4 days over the 4th of July Holiday working on it, but it is done and I think both he and Kendall really like it. It’s just on the edge of being too high at 14′…
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New plugin for WordPress
Just got this new plugin for wordpress that helps create links in posts. It creates a new tag that you can use to auto link text to gada.be searches. One thing I have been trying to figure out is how to link more in my posts. This should help me in that.
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10 days on the road
Ending up June with a bang. Have been on the road for a week and have 3 more days to go. It hasn’t been all business though. Started off last Monday in NYC for 3 days of our annual analyst meeting. I was a little worried because we were so relaxed going in without the…