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  • Social vacation suggestions – part 2

    Last year I used this blog to get a lot of great suggestions about the trip we planned to Europe last summer.  It worked great and we were able to do alot of things we wouldn't have known about if it weren't for your ideas.  So, I though I'd try it again, only this time…

  • Resolutions revisted

    I did a “resolutions” post at the start of 2011 and was thinking of doing the same this year. But decided not to. Call it a cop out, but this year I only have one resolution: to take each day as the blessing that it is and enjoy it as much as I can. There…

  • Making Christmas

    I’ve been doing a little Christmas dreaming lately.  No sugar plum fairies for me t – I’m dreaming of 3D Printers and desktop CNCs.  I’ve been watching these spaces for a while and I think the price / performance ratio is finally at a place where  will take the plunge.  I really am just looking…

  • My 911 story

    This blog started in March 2004, about two and a half years after 9/11.  I’ve done a few political posts and talked about the war on terror, but generally keep it a bit lighter.  On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 however, I feel the need to document my story on that day….before I forget more…

  • Continuous partial work

    Last week when I was in San Francisco for Dreamforce I did a little experiment: I left the MacBook at home and only took my iPad 2, iPhone 4 and Blackberry.  Don’t laugh – this week at our analyst event I am loaded down with no only the MacBook plus all the stuff I took…

  • What I learned about the semantic web by traveling too much

    Last year I had the ‘privilege’ of amassing enough air miles on Delta Airlines to ‘earn’ the status of Diamond Medallion – with a few miles to spare to help me get it again this year, with (maybe) a little less travel. The quotes are not meant to demean the benefits you get with the…

  • Dream a little dream(force)

    I came back from San Francisco earlier today after a few days at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user conference. It was my first time to Dreamforce and what a time it was. Conferences like these are always interesting to me on many levels: what I learn about the core of the conference (in this case all…

  • Summer's over

    Just as quickly as it started it has ended. Summer is over with the kids going back to to school last week and me starting up 6 back to back weeks of travel this week. Overall it was a pretty good summer – as always sad to see it come to an end, although fall…

  • Summer work

    It is that joyous time of year for school children around the world (or at least the ones in dumb countries that haven’t gone to year round schooling): Summer Break. But not for my kids 😉 Summer break means they gt to work on all the things that I think they should know but aren’t…