Here’s a shot of a Killdeer captured at the Village Creek Drying Beds in Arlington TX. Captured with Canon 7D with Canon 400mm 5.6 L. EXIF: 1/3200sec, f/5.6, 400mm, 400ISO, 0EV
Watch out for the Gorilla!
January 17, 2012 By 5 Comments
I’m currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (amazon affiliate link). In one of the first few chapters, Dr. Kahneman describes the “invisible gorilla test” popularized by psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. The test consists of a team of 3 people dressed in black and a team of 3 people dressed in white [...]
Links for January 15 2012
January 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
The Human Marketing Manifesto by Russ Somers on russsomers.com Quote: I am not a lead, I am a person. A human being with human concerns….I was not ‘generated’ by submitting a lead form. I was generated by my parents many years back after a bottle of wine. I existed long before I clicked ’submit’ to [...]
Foto Friday – Addra Gazelle
January 13, 2012 By 4 Comments
Another from the photoarchives - An Addra Gazelle at the Fossil Rim WIldlife Center in Glen Rose TX. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L. EXIF: 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 400mm, 0EV
Are you building an “order taker” or “solution maker” environment?
January 12, 2012 By 13 Comments
Dave Brock just published a post that resonated with me. The title of the post – Order Taker or Solution Creator – hits home in the IT world. In the article, Dave describes what he calls ‘order takers’ and ‘solution creators’. The order taker does a good job of working with clients to deliver a widget [...]
Links for Jan 8 2012
January 8, 2012 By 5 Comments
To Know, But Not to Understand by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent Quote: We rely, in other words, on a random accumulation of localised knowledge about people, their backgrounds and various behavioural signals. What if we could pool all those circles of wisdom together and extract a common currency for evaluating everyone’s levels of expertise, [...]
Foto Friday – Duck at Sunset
January 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
Another from the photoarchives – This is one of the first photos I took with my Canon 1D Mark III last year. I went out at sunset to test out the low light capabilities . Captured this duck at the pond…turned out nicely. Captured with Canon 1D Mark III, Canon 400mm 5.6 L with Canon 1.4x extender handheld. [...]
I learned Python…and much more
January 5, 2012 By 12 Comments
I’ve spent the last two weeks with my head buried in programming languages. I’ve been needing to re-write some scripts for data analysis for my research. I initially wrote some scripts in R but found that R is particularly slow when it comes to this type of analysis (more accurately I should say that my implementation of these analysis techniques is [...]
Recommended Books for the CIO / IT leader for 2012
January 3, 2012 By 12 Comments
Wow…2011 went by fast didn’t it? In Dec 2010, I put together a list of Recommended Books for the CIO / IT leader for 2011. That list was a good list with many CIO/IT related books as well as many non-IT related books. When I sat down to think about a list of books for 2012, [...]
Links for Jan 1 2012
January 1, 2012 By 5 Comments
Happy New Year! You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into by Mark Cuban on blog maverick Quote: “If you are looking where everyone else is for the next big thing, you are looking in the wrong place” Stop whining and start hiring remote workers by David Heinemeier Hansson on 37signals Quote: Every [...]
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