Category: miscellaneous

Well our heard doubled in size yesterday.  We welcomed Spring for a Partee (aka Levi) to our farm after picking him up in Indiana.  We searched for almost 3 months before finding him and we could be happier.  He is a APHA registered paint with a bald face and one blue and one brown eye. …

Man have I been away for a while. There is almost too much that has happened since my last post. Let me see if I can hit the highlights: Made a few trips…to Seattle for an Microsoft briefing, to Plano for an internal meeting. Nothing much to report there, but I did start to capture…

Picked up a couple of new gadgets in the past 2 days. On Saturday my 12 year old Canon LPB-430 laser printer finallt gave up the ghost. It was kind of sad to see it go – I printed my master’s thesis on that printer. I used Word Perfect version 8 running on Windows for…

We had to say good bye to an old friend today, Gunner. He hadn’t been doing so well for the past 9 months and in the last 2 days took a severe turn for the worse. Looks like he had Leukemia and had also suffered a stroke in the past day or so. He was…

I was in NYC yesterday for the Microsoft launch of their “people ready business” initiative.  We got in to JFK around 6 on Wedneday night and then headed straight to dinner at Tabla, a Danny Meyer restaurant.  I love his restaurants, especially Union Square Café.  Tabla is an Indian inspired restaurant and it was a…

My kids b-day today…5 and 7…where has the time gone?

I for one did not get too caught up in the hype surrounding the recent announcement of the Origami (or much less original name, the UMPC).  I am a regular Tablet PC user and have been somewhat interested in the new small tablet offerings from Motion (the LS800) and the combination Tablet/Pocket PC that is…

I am writing this from a new tool I just installed on my work laptop to be able to post from my blog without logging in to the web interface to wordpress. The tool is w.bloggar. I am trying this out for a few reasons: It will let me blog on items I see in…

It occurred to me tonight that I have been investing a lot oft time getting myself organized so that I can know what I have going on.  From integrating GTD into my personal system, to adopting Mind Manager and OneNote, there are lots of tools and techniques that I have picked up so I can…