Category: miscellaneous

  • Blog going down again

    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…

  • What RSS reader do you use?

    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…

  • Who's out there?

    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?

  • Planning

    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…

  • Work…if it was anything else, they'd call it fun!

    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…

  • A few interesting business model ideas

    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…

  • I'm back!!

    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.

  • Home from the hospital

    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…

  • Back at the hospital today

    My family ended up back at the hospital today, this time quite by surprise. My daughter woke up about 11 PM last night complaining that she was having trouble breathing. At fist I thought it was another case of allergies and she meant she was having trouble breathing through her nose. After about 15 minutes…