Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

I have been reading Irving’s blog for a while. He always has some of the most extensive, well though out posts of any of the subscriptions I have in my “deep thoughts” folder. What struck me about this post is that it’s aling the same lines as something I have been playing around with in…

A compelling summary of why Microsoft strategy lacks a critical piece.  Of course hey have faced hard times before, but this may be fundamentally different.  There is a big debate going in in the ISV community over who to buddy up with.  This is certainly something to consider. » Ray Ozzies vision lacks an economic…

Having been on the giving end of a few media interviews in my day, I couldn’t agree more with Dana’s idea that the recordings of those interviews should be posted for public consumption. There have been a few times when the compression of a 60 minute discussion into a 400 word article have resulted in…

Since the TSA decided that toothepaste is no longer a threat to national security, I headed over to the Super Target yesterday to pick up a few items that fall within the new rules. While there, I saw this: (Hint: look in the upper right had side of the pic). Now let’s say you had…

John is blogging. Wonder what he has to say?

Goliath came home yesterday. After 4 days in the equine hospital, he was ready. He is on two weeks of stall rest and 1 week of anti-biotics and anti-inflamatories. He and Levi were glad to see each other, in fact they didn’t want to be seperated, so it looks like Levi will be on two…

Annrai O’Toole has a really good post on the state of SOA today, by posing a few critical questions. He looks at it mostly from an end-user perspective (business impact, etc.). I think there are another list of interesting questions from the vendors perspective: 1 – How does SOA impact pricing policies? As customers are…

Well, I took the plunge and moved my blog to a godaddy.com hosted account. I just didn’t have the time to troubleshoot what was going wrong with my home server. In fact it may have not even been the server because there were some router strangeness as well. Anyway, it will be a few days…

So after a very nice long stint without any travel, I am on the start of 4 weeks in a row on the road.  This week I will be in Plano and Dallas, Texas.  Next week I am off to Scottsdale, AZ.  After that I am in Europe and then I am off to Seattle. …