Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Scoble brings me back down to earth
I had seen a post on the AMD virtual trade show a few days ago and got really intrigued by the thought. I have been personally involved in orchestrating a few of our trade show presences and always have marvelled at the waste of money they seem to be. In many cases the few we…
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Great analogies = understanding
While I find the message in Geoff Moore’s post to be compelling, I find the way he tells the story to be even more intersting. The analogies he uses compress what would take 5,000 words to convey into a 500 (or less). I knew there was a reason he was such a respected writer. Dealing_with_Darwin:…
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First service on the TDI today
So I crossed the 5,000 mile mark today so I stopped by Champion VW in Florence to get my initial service today. To be honest, I was going to stop by Friday since I had more time, but I called them first thing and got a VM. Even though I left a message, I never…
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Blog server went down for a while
As hopefully some of you noticed, my blog server went down for at least 24 hours. Not sure why, but since it was a SUnday and I don’t post too often on Sunday I didn’t notice until I was at work today and tried to make a few posts before starting work. I remember hearing…
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I may finally get a few more converts
I have been using Mind Jet Mind Manager since version 4 and am a very big fan. I use it almost anytime I need to ‘compose’ something, whether it be a new program plan, a brochure or a presentation. I have used it a few times as an ongoing program dashboard, but mostly I use…
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Lock-in via the ecosystem
Well I was somewhat dissappointed in the iPod announements on Tuesday. As I blogged earlier, I lost my 30 GB 4G iPod about 10 days ago and I was waiting for the new iPod announcement before deciding what to replace it with. If Apple had come out with the widely anticipated ‘true’ video iPod that…
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Initial Vista / Tablet impressions
As I ink blogged a few days ago, I installed Vista RC1 on my TC1100. The install process worked fine and was complete in about 40 minutes. It took me a bit longer to get the button drivers to work (the trick is to set the properties on the installer to run in Windows XP…
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PLMexchange: Why NX CAD
I’ve been reading these guys for a while and this is an excellent post (and not just because they like our CAD tool) that describes what a user considers when making a buying decision. Why NX CAD?
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Two great (and free) video tools
In addition to posting a lot about video yesterday, I have been doing a lot of work with video for my job. Two tools that I find indespensable are: MMConvert: allows you to quickly and easily (in one step most of the time) convert from one video format to another. Supports all the codecs you…