Category: miscellaneous

In earlier posts I have written about an idea I have that is one of those that just “sticks with you”.  I think I have been successful in convincing my company to go for it and now I need to find some smart people to help me make it real.  So now its time to…

.!. I am writing this while sitting in the Crown Room at the DFW airport terminal E (and, yes my Verizon EVDO works fine here).  I am sitting in the exact same place I was last night at about the same time trying to get on the same flight as I was at this time…

John Dodds does a nice post on the realities of marketing in the Web2 world.  A nice short summization of the already short cluetrain manifesto, which I still read at least once a year.  “Markets are conversations” still changes the way I look at marketing every day. Make Marketing History: The J Train (A Marketing…

Just was poking around there for a few small things and noticed that the images for the RTM version of Office 2007 are up on MSDN for all of you with subscriptions. At least all of you that speak English, German or Japanese as of this post. I’ve been running B2TR with little problem, but…

.!. I’ve posted a few times before on my latest windows mobile phone, the T-mobile MDA (aka the HTC Wizard). I have had it for over 8 months now and I have to say this has the longest I have been so happy with any mobile device since my first digital phone (when they were…

Stopped in on my way to work this morning to do my patriotic duty by voting.  Since we moved last fall after the election, I had to find the new polling place.  Wasn’t that hard, but I find it odd that I always end up having to vote in some of the strangest places.  In…

Since the weather this weekend was warmer than its likely to be in the next few months, I took the opportunity to cut some trails in our woods for walking and eventually to ride the horses on.  I was quite successful on Saturday and in only a couple hours had completed what I thought would…

I didn’t listen to the second half of the game (doesn’t it figure!), but the Cats pulled one out today and beat Georgia (for only the 11th time in 60 tries).  Way to go boys.  I haven’t been able to see many games this year, but it looks like the Cats are going bowling for…

I had some complaints about my old picture, so I updated it today.  The old one was supposed to look like a WSJ wood-cut, but never quite got there.  So in the new spirit of full disclosure around here I though a more realistic picture was in order.