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Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • The worst wifi connection page ever

    Do you have any idea what I am supposed to do here to get connected?  I clicked around for 10 minutes and then gave up…maybe it was the 90 minutes of sleep I got last night.

  • One word

    Unbelievable! How much worse can this story get, and yet the Dassault stock seems completely uneffected. Airbus’ A380 megajet is now a full two years behind schedule—and the reason, CEO Christian Streiff admitted on Oct. 3, is that design software used at different Airbus factories wasn’t compatible. Airbus: First, Blame the Software

  • A cool app from UGS that I can explain to my Mom in 2 minutes

    I just got done with a presentation at our user conference on one of our newest technologies: Geolus Search. We got ahold of this from sd&m this past summer and have made a number of enhancements since then. It occurred to me that we created a lot of videos for my presentation and I should…

  • There is at least one Sun in Second Life

    I guess it was only a matter of time.  The audience and the cost savings is just too big to keep companies from using Second Life as a communication platform.  A press conference and a trade show seem like naturals for Second Life.  Wonder what you could do in WOW? BetaNews | Sun Takes Press…

  • PLM Europe – Track sessions day 1

    I’m splitting my time this afternoon between our partner sessions and our JT Open track session.  I had John go to the JT Open sessions with the recorder, so hopefully we’ll get some podcasts of that up soon. The partner sessions started off with a presentation from a long time partner of our, Matthias Mond…

  • PLM Europe – Open Keynote Presentations

    For whatever reason, I was able to adjust to the GMT +1 time zone with no issues.  However, it didn’t matter so much since the event started today at 10:30 to allow for local travel.  The opening keynote was delivered by Tony.  He did a great job of reviewing our performance and outlining the vision…

  • Guten Tag, Frankfurt

    Just arrived in Frankfurt for our European user conference.  The flight was packaed, but I actually managed to get 4 hours of sleep.  I have booth duty tonight, so I will try to make it in to town after that. Hopefully they don’t roll-up the streets at 6 PM, but since it’s Sunday, I may…

  • AMR Roundtable at Innovation Leadership Summit

    At the conclusion of the summit we had a small roundtable lead by Mike Burkett from AMR Research. The voices you’ll here in addition to Mike are Chris Lorence from GE Aircraft Engines, Shawn Greenwald from Motorola and Tim Coles from JCB. You’ll hear me in there too.  The discussion mainly focused on the early…

  • One for the online toolbox

    This is a cool app, made even better by being free and online.  One of the things I hate to do is change audio and video files from one format to another.  With Media Convert I can let another machine do the work for me, plus there are way more formats than I could ever…