Category: miscellaneous

.!. For those of you that haven’t made the leap into SL yet, there are a few tour videos available of UGS Innovation Connection that I’ve posted to you tube, or you can click to play below:

I don’t think I am jumping the gun (at least not by much ;-), but this morning UGS will announce one of the projects I have been working on for the past few months: UGS Innovation Connection in Second Life. When I first heard about Second Life last fall, I thought ‘might be interesting’. When…

I had the chance to spend the weekend in Nuremberg with a few of the folks from UGS I was working with through the week. The weather was absolutely gorgeous all through the weekend, with not a cloud in the sky, highs in the mid-80s and nice cool nights. After finishing up at the office…

Everyone needs a friend with a truck and now all of my friends have one. I have been in the market for a truck pretty much since we bought our farm a year and a half ago. However, the requirements list kept getting more extensive the longer I kept looking, so on Friday last week…

I reached a milestone last week and celebrated my 10 year service anniversary with SDRC/EDS/UGS/(Siemens). I received a nice package during the ‘ceremony” (it was a group dinner at the hotel we were staying at for the staff meeting) that has a letter in it with instructions for me to claim my award. I went…

A good article over on Web Worker Daily shows exactly why I started chriskelley.org. Yeah, sure it is somewhat of an exercise in geekiness…as well as vanity. But I also think that it is a key part of owning your own brand…at least that’s what I tell myself when I’m posting at 2 AM. (BTW…

Maybe I am being too much of an optimist, but while this guy is penniless, he also has a wife that is almost half his age.  He aslo has a pretty cool place for paint ball. Boing Boing: Ruined Russian gangster’s towering log cabin

I have been a regular user of the mind mapping technique for about 5 years, mind mapping software (from Mindjet) for thepast 3 years and a reader of the Mind Mapping Software weblog for the past year.  It was with little supirse that I read this post on that blog today: The Mind Mapping Software…

I’m posting this for a friend who thinks he should have a blog, but for whatever reason won’t set one up. What do you think? Should Keith start his own? These are the odds of who the University of Kentucky’s new head coach will be after the departure yesterday of Tubby Smith: Billy Donovan –…