Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Weekend in Nuremberg
I had the chance to spend the weekend in Nuremberg with a few of the folks from UGS I was working with through the week. The weather was absolutely gorgeous all through the weekend, with not a cloud in the sky, highs in the mid-80s and nice cool nights. After finishing up at the office…
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My new toy
Everyone needs a friend with a truck and now all of my friends have one. I have been in the market for a truck pretty much since we bought our farm a year and a half ago. However, the requirements list kept getting more extensive the longer I kept looking, so on Friday last week…
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Another 10 days on the road
I arrived in Nuremberg yesterday after a 2 hour train ride from Frankfurt. I’ll be here through the weekend working on Siemens integration work and then on to Hannover Fair on Sunday. I have received a few private messages asking why I haven’t been writing much about the acquisition and its a combination of being…
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Service awards as psychological profiling?
I reached a milestone last week and celebrated my 10 year service anniversary with SDRC/EDS/UGS/(Siemens). I received a nice package during the ‘ceremony” (it was a group dinner at the hotel we were staying at for the staff meeting) that has a letter in it with instructions for me to claim my award. I went…
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This is one of the reasons I started chriskelley.org
A good article over on Web Worker Daily shows exactly why I started chriskelley.org. Yeah, sure it is somewhat of an exercise in geekiness…as well as vanity. But I also think that it is a key part of owning your own brand…at least that’s what I tell myself when I’m posting at 2 AM. (BTW…
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3D Printing anyone?
Now this is a novel technique to print in 3D:“Chemical origami” shrinks 2D discs into 3D objects (February 2007) – News – PhysicsWeb Most approaches rely on an addition or subtraction method. This one is more focused on morphing. The potentially interesting part about the morphing approach is that it would allow you to create…
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Glass half full?
Maybe I am being too much of an optimist, but while this guy is penniless, he also has a wife that is almost half his age. He aslo has a pretty cool place for paint ball. Boing Boing: Ruined Russian gangster’s towering log cabin
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The need for common formats is everywhere
I have been a regular user of the mind mapping technique for about 5 years, mind mapping software (from Mindjet) for thepast 3 years and a reader of the Mind Mapping Software weblog for the past year. It was with little supirse that I read this post on that blog today: The Mind Mapping Software…
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The EU speaks on the Siemens acquisition
While not an answer yet, they’e at least set a date for themselves to have an answer on whether Siemens can go ahead with the acquisition of UGS. I wonder who enforces a penalty if they miss that date 😉 EU inquiry deadline into Siemens buy of UGS set for April 30 – Forbes.com