Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

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…

Well the migration seems to be complete. I have all of my old blog posts moved over and more importantly all of my customizations and plugins. It was a little harder than I thought, but not impossible. Ended up having to re-post the few entries I made before I got access to the MySQL database…

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…