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What a week.  I set out last Sunday from Cincinnati to Nuremberg via Detroit and Frankfurt.  I had several days of meetings scheduled with my team and various internal customers.  It was in every way a normal trip to Germany: get up in the morning, breakfast in the hotel, taxi to the office, meeting after [...]

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Been rather quiet again here lately.  Not sure if I am loosing interest in blogging or it is loosing interest in me.  One standard excuse for letting your blog go to weeds is that you’ve been to busy with other things.  The last half of the year, that was certainly true.  I was coaching 2 [...]

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OK, that has got to be the best post title I’ve had since starting this blog – it’s a well known saying, its on the topic of the post AND it works in the name of the company that provided the impetus for this post: The news coming out last Friday that the European commission [...]

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It’s about a week later than I had planned, but as of today, my garden is in.  Overall that’s pretty good since I started planning back in January.  We’ve been trying our hand at vegetable gardening since before we moved to the farm, but it really went to a new level when we moved out [...]

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So I’ve been struggling with this post for a while.  I think a few people that I work with actually do read my blog now and again and I don’t want them to read this post and take it as free license to slack.  So, I thought I would start with this disclaimer: if you’re [...]

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I know it’s a bit unconventional, but I am about halfway through Neil Stephenson’s Anathem and I though I would post a few thoughts so far.  The book is after all more than 900 pages.  If I waited until I was finished with it, I might forget what I though about the first sections. Anathem [...]

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Things have been quiet around here for the last few months (here and on Twitter, Facebook and Yammer). I’ve been heads down and reasonably singly threaded on a work project that is finally seeing the light of day this morning.  This new micro-site on the Siemens PLM Software web site is setup to tell our [...]

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I’m going out on the road for pretty much the next 2 weeks straight. I leave Sunday for 5 days in Orlando for 2 days of internal meetings and then a few days of Eloqua training (one of the trainers, not the trainee this time). I get back late Thursday and then head out again [...]

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I’ve been working on this in the background for a while, but today I can finally talk about it here: starting October 1st, I am starting on a new leg of my career journey. No I’m not leaving Siemens PLM Software; quite the contrary in fact. I am really excited about my new role, but [...]

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.!. Posted to Flickr .  We also went to see the last supper, but they don’t let you use any cameras there so no pics.  The setup for the last supper is interesting from a tech viewpoint: they have temp and humidity controlled chambers you have to enter and leave through and there is a [...]

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