Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • How do you say Oops in French?

    It seems our “friends” at Dassault had to do a hasty retreat from one of their recent press releases. A small detail about the customer quote eluded them and so they were forced to issue this retration: Dassault correction I’m sure it was just “lost in translation” 😉

  • Finally migrated all posts over from my old COREBlog site

    Well, I finally was able to get all of my COREBlog entries from that machine and system into my new WordPress Site.  It only took me 9 months.  In the early days I was retyping each entry, but then I figured out that I could use the MT import feature in WP to suck in…

  • Moving URLs

    Well I finally took the plunge and moved my website from the Dynamic Domain Name Service that I had been using – TZO to a full fledged top level domain: chriskelley.org. I used Go Daddy to buy my domain (I guess all those adds on Geek News Central and Gillmor Gang finally got to me!)…

  • Microsoft Speaks at the UGS User Conference

    Sanjay Parthasarathy, the Corp VP at Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism spoke at the recent UGS Analyst Event on June 20th in NYC. Hear what he has to say about the Microsoft – UGS partnership, the importance of the manufacturing segment to Microsoft and the future of applications. Sanjay P. at UGS Analyst Event

  • Taking a break for a few weeks…

    …I bought an X-BOX 360 over the weekend. Just couldn’t resist anymore. Was in Best Buy over the weekend and saw a few premiums just sitting on the shelf. Only have one game, Project Gotham Racing, but so far it is definitely a step up from my PS2. It’s so good it’s making me want…

  • The Manufacturer.com – The illusion of openness

    The Manufacturer.com – The illusion of openness Interesting article from one of my favorite pubs out of the UK on manufacturing.  We have been talking about an SOA strategy at UGS for over 5 years.  In some ways it was forced upon us rather than a grand vision because of the needs we had to…

  • General Motors getting vehicles to market faster – Autoblog

    General Motors getting vehicles to market faster – Autoblog This is good news for one of our biggest and oldest customers, GM. It seems that they have at least solved the TTM problem, which had been an issue for many years. Now if they could just get more “inspired” designs like the Sky and Solstice…

  • Microsoft WPC Day 2 – off to an odd start

    Day 2 at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and things got off to an odd start. There was an accident in the feeder to the Ted Williams tunnel last night that has backed up traffic all over Boston. So as a result Microsoft decided to postpone the entire event by 30 minutes, so as a result…

  • Microsoft WPC Day 1 – not much to report

    Arrived in Boston this morning for my 4th Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. The trip up was uneventful except for running into the Dad on one of Kendall’s classmates at school…who was piloting our plane! Headed to the Hotel (the very nice Westin Waterfront) and had a few conference calls to attend to. After those were…