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Now that the president and the United Way have teamed up to proclaim that 9/11 shall be honored, each year, with a national day of service and volunteerism , Microsoft jumped onto the band wagon in large numbers. Thousands of individual Microsoft Employees
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I mentioned to a Christian friend of mine, yesterday, that I consider him to be a “mensch.” He was unaware of the term, and it made me wonder what other folks say about the becoming and being a mensch. I ran across Guy Kawasaki’s blog post
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Even non-geeks will get a huge kick out of this, and I’m betting that most of the folks who follow my blog will find it as funny as I did… Word up. My only question for the MS Marketing guys who finally loosened up enough to pay for a viral video:
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I started two good blog posts today. Both will wait for another day, as I take this space to say goodbye to three colleagues friends from my department who were laid off today. Gentlemen, I am sorry to see you go. I consider myself blessed to have had
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There is a joke that I sometimes like to refer to, more as an allegorical story than anything else. This version is from AJokeADay.com : A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended
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It's been a while since I was blogging regularly. The reason: I was in a ship cycle. As we approached our deadline for delivery of a comprehensive end-to-end information model for information technology, more and more of my time was spent focusing on
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This is the story of four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's
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A couple of years ago, Phillippe Krutchen 'reinterpreted' the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects ( link ). I saw it again recently and I have some new appreciation for the things I saw there. I most enjoyed this bit. (Note that the number
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I love the Mythbusters. Not just because I like to watch them blow stuff up. (I do), More importantly... infinitely more importantly... because those two goofy guys are teaching my son to love science, engineering, and experimentation. Yes, the clips
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Nothing makes you appreciate your health more than spending a week, flat out sick with the flu. Just as I'm finally getting over all the coughing, congestion, chills, etc... my wife and kids have all come down with the same thing. And we all had flu shots
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It has been a long road towards the end of Netscape. Every worthy competitor deserves an honorable farewell. Now that Netscape has announced the end of support for the Netscape browser, as of February 1, 2008, it is time to sound the bugle and offer the
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Joe Freeflier is not a lucky man. He's been promoted. Oh, he wanted the promotion. He asked for the promotion, but it is a lateral move, and he had no idea of the difference between his old job and this new, unfamiliar role. When he came to work for the
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Ran across this post that asks "Why is Enterprise Architecture becoming the next big thing?" There's no really new content there... It's just fun to imagine that I've spent the past few years doing the 'next' thing. For once, I'm ahead of the game. ;-
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Quality is a skill. We need to teach it to our children, just as assuredly as we teach responsibility, compassion, and honor. At work, we need to both embody it in ourselves, and encourage it in those around us. I was a SDET for a while. That's Software
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I just hit the 'send' button on a rough draft of a 10-page document describing key elements of our SOA program. It is my attempt to describe, in terms that business people can understand, the reasoning and rationale for our Enterprise Architecture approach
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