Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Tis the season
Wow, more than a month since my last post. Usual excuses apply: work’s been taking up too much of my free time, lot’s to do around home. Oh, and I got my appendix taken out. I have been doing a lot to get ready for Christmas. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year seems…
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Dogs
For some reason we seem to be accumulating dogs lately. No, we’re not buying them, they are just showing up. It started with the Black and Tan coon dog on the left. We now know he officially belongs to one of our neighbors down the street, but he spends a good 1/3rd of his time…
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Will the move to the cloud lead to an IT market melt down?
I have been leading up the deployment of a software as a service project inside our company since March of this past year. The project has gone really well and it has let me flex a lot of project management muscles that had atrophied over the previous few years. Its also given me a first…
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My new deal
Another iPhone post, so leave a comment if autocorrect makes something non-sensical. I’ve been holding off doing a post on the financial crisis, but have had some time to digest everything and have seen enough to know this isn’t a media invented event to sell ads and keep us tuned in to 24 hour news…
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Whirlwind travel
I’m going out on the road for pretty much the next 2 weeks straight. I leave Sunday for 5 days in Orlando for 2 days of internal meetings and then a few days of Eloqua training (one of the trainers, not the trainee this time). I get back late Thursday and then head out again…
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The herd is complete
We welcomed the 4th and final horse to the farm on Monday. I only say final because we have 4 stalls and no real room to build any more. Plus we only have enough pasture to manage 4 if we get a drought again, so this should be it…until one kicks the bucket. The new…
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Is this an example of Amazon's 'optimized supply chain'
Don’t get me wrong: I love Amazon. I recently signed up for Amazon Prime and have been using the heck out of it. However one of my recent purchases is leaving me a little bit puzzled as to how they decide to ship things: I live about 15 miles from Hebron, KY which is where…
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Starting out on a new path
I’ve been working on this in the background for a while, but today I can finally talk about it here: starting October 1st, I am starting on a new leg of my career journey. No I’m not leaving Siemens PLM Software; quite the contrary in fact. I am really excited about my new role, but…
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Everything I need to know about business I learned on the farm – lesson #1
I took a week off from (paying) work last week and spent the time at home catching up on various projects that had accumulated on my to do list. I built a wood shed. I cleaned up the tool shed by the barn and built a bin to hold shavings for the horse stalls. I…