Foto Friday – Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park

This is a photo taken at the highest point in the Kolob Canyon portion of Zion National Park.  Taken in April 2010 during our Zion trip. Taken with Canon 5D and Canon 17-40 L handheld. see more photos in my flickr photostream and on my website at photographyminute.com

Advice on hiring from The Onion’s CEO

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Do you know what The Onion is? If not, it’s a satirical newspaper and website that is hysterical…you should read it. I’ve been a big fan of The Onion for years…but I didn’t know it was a 160-employee company…that’s huge for what I thought was just a funny website/newspaper. I ran [...]

Links for March 28 2010

I’m trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I’m now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I then use a javascript call to pull the bookmarks for each week from delicious. Hope you get some value from this new approach.

Technical Excellence isn’t enough

Technical Excellence is not enough

Technical Excellence is something we all strive for in areas that we care about. We all want to be really good at something don’t we? It takes a long time to be excellent at something.    You’ve heard of the 10,000 hour rule right?  You’ve got to practice for 10,000 hours to be ‘the best’ [...]

Certifications in IT – Worth it or not?

My good friend, and partner at CIOEssentials.com,  Gene Delibero asks a few interesting questions in a post titled “Certification: No Guarantee of Competency – But it Can’t Hurt” on CIOE. In this post Gene highlights the pros/cons of IT Certifications and asks these questions: Do you rely on IT certification when hiring? What has your [...]