Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Don Richardson from Microsoft – Innovation Leadership Summit

    Microsoft is one of our best partners and this talk is focused on how Microsoft itself has become a great innovator in both software and hardware (X-box, Zune).

  • Frank Bellio – Innovation Leadership Summit

    A great view on how to justify an investment in PLM as delivered by Frank Bellio of Mercury Marine.

  • In Scottsdale for Innovation Forum

    Well it took me 2 plane flights an 6.5 hours, but I finally made it to Scottsdale.  I’m here for the next two days for a forum on Innovation  There are some really interesting speakers lined up.  With my EVDO card in hand and my new godaddy.com hosted blog, I am really ready to do…

  • Thoughts on "The Ten Faces of Innovation"

    One of the few things I enjoy about long plane rides is that it is probably the only time left that I can get caught up on my reading, especially books.  I just finished Tom Kelley’s (no relation) book “The Ten Faces of Innovation” on the flight to Phoenix today. Overall it was an easy…

  • One the road again tomorrow…week 2 of 4

    Leave at 6:15 AM tomorrow to Phoenix.  Who is booking these flights!!!

  • Selling a video card over on Ebay

    Check it out if you need a good gaming card or want something that will run Vista with full glass effects. eBay: NIB XFX GeForce 6800 Xtreme AGP 8x 256 MB DDR3 Vid Card (item 110039721985 end time Oct-06-06 17:26:33 PDT)

  • Getting closer to moving from MythTV to MCE

    I have been running a Linux MythTV box for almost 3 years, but in the past few months, I have been thinking more and more about converting to Windows MCE.  The first straw was the problems I continue to have with the HDTV Tuner (the HD3000).  The second straw has been the incredible heat the…

  • CATIA causes Airbus tower of Babel

    Looks like this story is starting to get a little bit more mainstream. This is a well known issue with CATIA insiders.  While I’m glad to see this aspect of the story getting more exposure, I’m puzzled by the proposed solution by “experts”: “They didn’t have uniform design tools throughout the system and that’s biting…

  • Heaven is RSS Syncronization

    I admit it: I am an RSS junkie.  I can think of no better way to kill 5 minutes or an hours than catching up on my feeds.  I started out with a number of different client side readers until eventually settling on Feed Demon last fall.  I used it happily for a few months…