Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
-
New York, New York
My wife and I are taking a little trip up to NYC tomorrow. I have a conference to attend there on Monday and Tuesday, so I set it up for us to go a little early and see a show and have some dinner. I love NYC. We went there about a year ago and…
-
Spiffing up my blog
Well as you can see via the post below, I am spiffing up my blog with the addition of pictures, thanks to Jeff. The more I play around with my site, the more I find its alot like messing with cars. A tweak here, a tweak there and all of the sudden you have something…
-
School for my kids
My kids are getting to the age where we need to do some serious homework on where to send them to school. We live in one of the worst states for public education, so we knew even before we had kids that we’d have to be sending them to a private school. Most of the…
-
Happy B-day to me
Happy B-day to me. Turned the calendar another year today. Doesn’t seem like I’m much older, but my kids sure do. Spent the weekend in Lexington at Keeneland horse track. Lost some money (that’s what it’s there for, after all), but had a great time. Hope 31 is as good as 30 was.
-
The Future of Engineering Software
Finished up in Seattle (be back there next week) and am now in Scottsdale for a conference on the future of engineering software (COFES). Listening to John Koza from Stanford discuss genetic programming. This conference is always interesting and despite the rain (yes, its raining in the desert!), it promises to be again this year.…
-
Platform versus apps
Attending a Microsoft conference this week on the future of their platform. I thought this was going to be at the MSFT campus, but it turns out that its just at the hotel were we’re all staying because there are too many attendees. It’s been very interesting and I’ve reconfirmed my belief that despite what…
-
Off to Seattle
Leaving for Seattle tomorrow morning. It will be my first visit to the Microsoft campus and I have to say I’m interested to see what it will be like. After 3 days there, I’m off to Scottsdale for a 3 day “Conference on the Future of Engineering Software”. I’ve been going to this “conference” for…
-
Too busy
This blogging every day thing has turned out to be more of a problem than I thought it would be. Its not that I don’t have anything to blog about, but this past week was filled with too many 15 hour days. The new ownership of my company has made everyone feel under the gun…
-
Sold!
For the first time in over 7 years, I find myself working for a privare company. No more quarterly reporting…no more stock options! I’m in these circumstances not exactly by choice, but it’s still fairly agreeable, especially considering the state of my former employer (although I wish you luck, all that are left behind). I…