Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

John is blogging. Wonder what he has to say?

Goliath came home yesterday. After 4 days in the equine hospital, he was ready. He is on two weeks of stall rest and 1 week of anti-biotics and anti-inflamatories. He and Levi were glad to see each other, in fact they didn’t want to be seperated, so it looks like Levi will be on two…

Annrai O’Toole has a really good post on the state of SOA today, by posing a few critical questions. He looks at it mostly from an end-user perspective (business impact, etc.). I think there are another list of interesting questions from the vendors perspective: 1 – How does SOA impact pricing policies? As customers are…

Well, I took the plunge and moved my blog to a godaddy.com hosted account. I just didn’t have the time to troubleshoot what was going wrong with my home server. In fact it may have not even been the server because there were some router strangeness as well. Anyway, it will be a few days…

So after a very nice long stint without any travel, I am on the start of 4 weeks in a row on the road.  This week I will be in Plano and Dallas, Texas.  Next week I am off to Scottsdale, AZ.  After that I am in Europe and then I am off to Seattle. …

What’s the cheapest you ever remember paying for gas?  For me it was 87 cents.

Well it looks like Goliath will be OK.  He is still at risk for infection, but the injury itself was “as good as it could have been”.  There was no injury to his coffin joint (I wonder why they call it that?) nor were any bones broken in his foot.  He was in surgery for…

Got a phone call from my wife today that one of our horses got boogered up in something.  Made it home in record time an less than an hour later we were on our way to Lexington to go to a horse hospital.  We’re there now (yes, the horse hospital has free internet access and…

I’ve been digging around Second Life for a few weeks and so far I think there are a lot of possibilities.  Virtual trade shows, virtual meetings, product announcements.  However this is something a little different – virtual planning for a different virtual world. Metroblogging Azeroth: At Last! Something useful to do with Second Life!