Category: miscellaneous

Well after what seemed like an eternity, I finally have everything back in place to be running this site.  The crtical missing piece had been high speed internet access to my house, which has been installed for a week now.  It took a ditch witch (and there is a reason they call those things witches),…

Unfortunately, it looks like my blog will be going down again as we move from our apartment to our new house.  This may be a bot longer than the outage when we moved to the temporary apartment a few months ago as getting high speed Internet service is going to require an engineering project from…

I discovered the word of RSS over a year ago and used a simple windows based tool to read a few blogs.  I think it was called RSS Bandit or something like that.  Over time I ran in to some limitations so I thought I would try one of the commercial readers and ended up…

Ok, I’ve been @ this for about a year It’s been an interesting experiment, but now I am wondering howmuch I an being read. There are few comments here and there, but not so many that I then then are regular readers. Am I wrong?

The more times I have been through the annual planning cycle, the bigger fan I become of emergent rather than deliberate strategy setting. I guess some may say that I’m lazy, but I really think it is just too hard for anyone to gather enough information on what is really going on in today’s complex…

We’re well into our annual planning cycle at the J O B. This is the fun time of year where we all get to make wild speculations about what might happen if we just spent a little more money, all talk to each other about how we need to focus and spend more time huddled…

For those of you with an entrepeneurial spirit, here are a few ideas I’ve been kicking around lately: 1 – a software service that would calculate the best route / combination of trips to make based on distance, traffic data, your car’s fuel economy and some user preferences. This could be a cool mash-up on…

After a few weeks of downtime, my blog is finally back.  We have moved into our apartment and I got cable service and all my wireless hook-ups done.  I have to say I missed having the blog around…the outlet is worth it.

Well after 5 long days and 4 longer nights my daughter came home from the hospital today. She finallymade it through the night without having to be on oxygen, so the docs decided she could come home. She was happy to get out of there and my wife and I were even happier to get…