Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

The IT market continues to consolidate. The hourglass shaped market continues to form with the big behomths at the top and open source on the bottom. Not sure what this portends for the future…will tech be as good a place to work when there are only 3 big companies to work for? Oracle to buy…

Just a quick post from the hospital.  My wife is having a few elective procedures and I am hanging out offering my support.  The hospital has come a long way in the past few years.  I can remember visting here when my Grandmother was ill and they wouldn’t even let you use your cell phone…

Those of you who are long time readers of my blog know that I have an addiction to rooting for loosing sports teams, specifically football.  I love the Cincinnati Bengals, to the point that no other team would have me as a fan.  I also love my Kentucky Wildcats, in both their natural sport of…

I know it’s a bit late, but I wanted to express my sympathies to all those affected by the destruction caused by Hurrican Katrina.  I have only been to New Orleans once, but I had a great time and I know how much the people there made up the experience.  I can’t beleive how much…

I’ve been working on getting my relatives and friends to access my blog via RSS so they always know when something is new and don’t check too often (and get disappointed) or to infrequently (and fall out of habit). This is a good explanation from Seth and even has given me a few ideas about…

I am officially starting a moratorium on updating the structure of my blog and podcast site starting on September 1st for the month.  I’ve been doing a lot of little tweaks lately and I think I’ve crossed the line of dimishing returns.  I also find it a lot easier to do the structure stuff than…

It was a little over a week ago today that my daughter went to her first day of first grade.  She seems to be adjusting OK, but it is still very scary.  The thing thats odd for me, is that the first real clear memories I have of long periods of time are in first…

This is just a quick test of the WYSIWYG plug-in I just downloaded.  This should make for some easier post formatting, but I’m still looking for a tool that will let me drop images straight in to the post without having to upload first.  Leave me a comment if you know of anything.  One of…

Sometimes I just don’t know when to quit. I have been really swept up in this whole podcast, RSS and blog world for the last year and I just can’t contain my enthusiasm sometimes. I have been pushing the IT team at work to get RSS feeds set-up as an alternate delivery model for information…