Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Microsoft weighs in
Didn’t know Eddie was blogging, but it seems he noticed our little news yesterday. I agree Eddie, we have come along way.
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Microsoft takes notice
I didn’t realize that Eddie was blogging, but the more I think about it I can’t believe I didn’t assume he has been blogging all along and I should have been reading his stuff. Anyway, he goes way back with UGS and as a Microsoft tech evangelsit extraordinare he knows quite a bit about Siemens. …
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Phew!
.!. Sorry for the really slow posting the past week or so, but as you may have seen we’ve been a bit busy at UGS. We announced last night that Siemens AG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UGS Corp and expect it to close in 60 to 90 days. This is a really…
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Really good parody web site
This is one of the funniest parody web sites I have seen in a long time. Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life Inkheart movies
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Finally a way to justify my procrastination
As an engineer (by degree anyway) this was all I needed: a formula to project what I will procrastinate on! Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow — A 10-year study of procrastination provides insights into–and a formula for–human motivation
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A faster way to get to work
Many of you may know that I moved last year a bit farther away from my office last year so we could get the farm we had been looking for. I have about a 100 mile round trip commute each day. The nice thing about it is that I am traveling against traffic each way…
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Bad experience with BatteryGeek
UPDATE: Not sure if this is a demonstration of the power of a blog or not, but I just got an email from the BatteryGeek guys that my new battery is on its way. I’ll provide another update when it comes. Hopefully this one will work better than the last. I posted in the fall…
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Tiresome? Maybe, but sometimes hard work is.
.!. OK, where do I begin with this one. Well, let’s start at the beginning. A few weeks ago I posted that UGS had published a specification for the JT file format. This announcement was the fulfillment of a promise we made publicly early in 2006 to make the details of the JT format publicly…
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Next year's Christmas list
Is it too early to add some requests for next year’s Christmas list? If not, I want one: ThrustPac – Empower Yourself True Colors full