Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

I may have found something to do in the workshop that came along with the house we bougt last year.  I love the idea of personalizing products through laser etching (user generated content) combined with social production (the plans to make the machine to do it are open sourced) combined with open innovation (the business…

I have been avoiding jumping on this bandwagon, but on Monday I signed up for an account on SecondLife. There is just such a large community there that there must be something interesting going on. What really got me though was the ticker on secondlife.com that shows how much money (in $US) has been spent…

I find myself 2 days ahead of schedule for my around the house/farm project list.  The fence is installed, the stalls are roughed in and the new light is up on the barn.  I even got it wired in and it worked with the first flip of the switch (anyone who took elements of electrical…

While I appreciate the link, I don’t want anyone to think that I am a blogger for UGS.  Yes, I do work at UGS and yes I do blog about things that I find interesting in the course of my work at UGS, but this is my blog (not UGS’s) and I say what I…

.!. Yesterday was my last official day at work for the year.  Yes, I am one of those people that didn’t take their vacation through the year and since we have a “use it or lose it policy” at UGS, I am using it.  So the posts may be light in the next few weeks…

While they still don’t admit they are targeting Office (although I was using Google spreadsheets yesterday and it was a great experience), Google unleashed their latest salvo on Microsoft, this time targeting developers. This is an interesting play right in the backyard of Microsoft = developers. Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the…