Foto Friday – Cardinal Taking Flight
Went out to my regular birding location this weekend and captured this Cardinal while he was about to take off. The light wasn't great but I liked this
A Veterans Day Thank You
This post is a bit off topic from the norm but I wanted to take this opportunity to say Thank You to anyone who's ever served in the armed forces. For
Are we treating the symptoms, or the real problem?
Lately, I've been having a lot of knee pain. For the last few months, its been constant and regular and seemed to get worse when I would spend a lot of
Links for November 7 2010
Hey, Chief, back your people up! by Dave Grossi on PoliceOne Daily One Quote: What really gets my Italian blood boiling is this incessant need by police
Foto Friday – Road to the Horizon
This is a capture I took while out at Zion National Park earlier this year. Taken at the side of the road while taking a break from driving. Not sure I
Time for IT to Evolve
Mark McDonald over on Gartner's blog network wrote a great piece this week titled Everything is up for grabs, making it a great time to be in IT. In the
On Change
I've been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link). If you haven't read the
Links for October 31 2010
The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New
Foto Friday – Dallas Zoo Lioness
Here's a quick shot of one of the female lions at the Dallas Zoo. This was taken through glass....which normally doesn't work real well. Turned out
Complexity & IT
Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft. After it was announced that he was leaving, he published a memo on his blog. The memo, titled Dawn of a New Day, is an
The Next Level by Scott Eblin – Book Review
Late last week I received The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition by Scott Eblin (amazon affiliate link) from Daniel
Links for October 24 2010
Are You Really Marketing or Just Advertising? by Alan Belniak on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: How many companies push words on a paper and crank
Foto Friday – Great Egret Stretching
Here's a Great Egret I captured at White Rock Lake a few weeks ago. Captured with Canon 1D Mark III + Canon 400mm 5.6 L and Canon 1.4x extender sitting on
The missing links between CIO's & CMO's – Communications & Leadership
As promised in earlier posts (here and here), its time to talk about the two main issues that cause problems between the CIO and the CMO. In CIO’s vs
A Social Approach to Knowledge Management in Projects – A White Paper
I recently submitted a paper to be considered for an academic conference on the topic of IT Project Management. The conference uses a double-blind review
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