May 2010
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Podcasts You Should Listen To. For Reals.
My wife Corrin has been doing a Song of the Day on Facebook and Twitter for, well, at least a year now. While music is great, and I am a fan of most of the stuff she recommends (even the hipster crap), I find that I am getting more and more into the podcasts being produced by comedians. They are a great way of getting to laugh your ass off while sitting in your cubicle or home office.
I was going...
February 2010
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My Beloved Keyboard
If you ever come into my home office to look at some code or a demonstration of a new software update, there are a few things you will notice before I turn on my monitor.
The first will probably be the disparity between my wife’s luxurious office chair and my own plywood perch. We bought her chair about five years ago while she was getting her degree, and I bought my own about 10 years ago...
Five Things: February, 2010
With the report on the January Five just out the door, it feels a little odd to be writing the February Five. But such is life.
Before I get to this month’s list, let me say that I don’t like giving myself a C+ for last month. It hurt, which is perhaps a good indication of my level of pride that I have invested in this endeavor. It would have been easy for me to exaggerate how...
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Five Things: January, 2010 - Report
Yes, I know that it is already the middle of February and that this post is long overdue. I also know that if I don’t take the time to write it now (when I have a few spare minutes of breathing room) then I never will and this initiative will die a fast death.
So here goes. As some of you may have read, I posted a list of the five objectives for my company for January, 2010. I am pleased to...
January 2010
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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
We Are, All of Us, Messed Up
After a long absence, a friend and former colleague of mine appeared back online this morning. It had been years since we worked together and almost that long since we actually saw each other in person, but our friendship has evolved into a few instant messages a day for the last five years. I know it doesn’t sound like much of a friendship by traditional definitions, but life is busy and...
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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Five Things: January, 2010
I cannot believe that 2009 is already over. It was a hell of year all around, complete with the ups (new clients and partnerships, solid new business stream, and great software enhancements) and the downs (family deaths, lack of days off and sleep, and one lost client) of a new company.
As I look back on it, one of the things I could have done better was to have a plan for our team. I have long...
December 2009
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2009: Lessons Learned
I honestly wasn’t going to do a 2009 retrospective. Really, I wasn’t. I tend to sit in my own head a few times during the year: the week before January 1st, the week before March 29th, and the week before July 1st. This year was no different. The downside to this reflection is that it tends to be almost always negative - I think almost exclusively about what wasn’t done right and...
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New Year, New Blog
With 2009 coming to a whimpering end, I thought it appropriate to start a fresh with my blogging. This isn’t the first blog I have written, or attempted to write, but it is my hope for 2010 that I will devote just a little more time and energy to this incarnation.
And when I say that I have blogged in the past, that is a bit misleading. There was the one blog where I posted one poorly...