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Has it been 3 months already?
Apparantly I haven’t updated this blog in 3 months. My how things change. So, since my last post, I’ve accepted a new job in Denver and my daughter is three months older (crawling, teething, sitting up...
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The Big Bandwidth Misconception
Over on Bram Cohen’s blog (of BitTorrent fame), Mark Cuban made a comment that reminded me of a pretty common misconception about the ISP business. Mark said, in reference to Bram and attempting to...
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When a customer isn’t just a customer
I just got back from spending three days at Cisco’s corporate headerquarters. I’ve spent a good portion of my career dealing with vendors. I’ve spent days in meetings, evaluating products, specing...
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Time to start writing thoughts again
A couple of things have happened recently which has made it to where I believe it’s time to start writing thoughts, publicly, again. First, I’m relatively certain people do not read this, at least...
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Customer Centricity is Evil, in IT
I was listening to a video from Startup Lessons Learned, where a brief comment was made regarding customer centricity at IMVU, which reminded me of a nagging thought in my head in recent months....
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Sometimes Shit Tastes Fine
Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) is an old friend of mine. We have spent untold amounts of hours on IRC together. We’ve just recently reconnected on Twitter, where yesterday she tweeted a link to “Don’t bite the...
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Thoughts on Culture
Three years with barely an update, now I’m at least cranking out content on a once a week basis. I only know of a couple of people who still read my rantings, but it feels good to express opinions...
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Why you should let anyone say something positive
Today we had a bit of a clash around communications policy. We have had a number of problems at work recently with availability, software quality and defects, and an understaffed support department...
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Listen to the real users, dammit
The world of IT and custom software is complicated, and it’s very different from the world you read about in the blogs. It’s not nearly as sexy as a startup, a social network, or a product company...
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On living without interruption
Dave Winer is inspiring me to write smaller posts on things that come to mind. I think it’s good for the soul. One of the most telling things about changing jobs to a completely different career, from...
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Finding the Right Partner for Your Business
Mark Cuban has a great post about finding the right partner for your business and accepting your faults. While I don’t think you should ever stop trying to improve yourself, which in my case is...
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Definition of Design
I live this, every day: “Design consists of creating things for clients who may not know what they want, until they see what you’ve done, then they know exactly what they want, but it’s not what you...
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Product or Service?
The one thing I like about writing, and blogging in particular, is that it gives one a chance to air out their thoughts, in public, with the potential for feedback. However, one of the most important...
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A City Silhouette
From New Years Day. I’m going out to Drink and Click tomorrow so maybe I’ll shoot something new to post, but in the mean time still posting from my backlog. I shot and processed this many months ago,...
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Photographers Palace
From last night’s Drink & Click at the Palace of Fine Arts. Thanks to Tony for organizing yet again, it was a lot of fun, and we actually took photos this time! via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/efU9od
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P52BW13: Night Lights
I loved the arc of light jutting out from behind this building that looks like its framing the Chrysler building. Having Grand Central in the foreground isn’t bad either . via Flickr...
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I love a rich blue sky
Clouds or not, I love a rich blue sky. From Palace of Fine Arts at last week’s Drink & Click. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/egAWN7
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And The Heavens Parted
In the photography world, these are occurences of the sun breaking through the clouds are called several things, but usually I hear them referred to as “God Rays”. This is the first time I’ve had the...
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Pixie Dust
I don’t know if this pixie dust will allow you to take flight, but I like to think it would. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/ehgVWQ
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100
From Grand Central Terminal in New York City. I was there last week for one night only but I did get a chance to go shoot here. It’s really a great place to shoot. So much activity. Half the people are...
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