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Art, with some elements of Execution
Gartner Symposium 2010

By ⋅ October 26, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Last week, I was able to attend this annual Gartner event – something akin to SAPPHIRE, the SAP uber-users group meeting, without the vendor specific rah-rah. An interesting event – 7400 attendees, over four days. A typical conference – multiple sessions along major tracks, and I bounced between sessions dealing with these issues: Master Data [...]

Field Notes: Video Conferencing for Business Conversations

By ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This past week saw my first experience with video conference calling – something obvious to consider in these tight economic times. Some observations – I got quick feedback that my original camera position was disconcerting for the others. I had put it off to the side, which made me look “off camera”, almost in profile, [...]

Third Time’s the Charm? Blackberry Bold

By ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently had to part ways with my Blackberry Pearl – some heartache, I suppose, but time and product innnovation march on. There is a lot to like about the Blackberry Bold – I am definitely happy to have made the change … <aside> … although my inner conspiracy theorist sees a case of planned [...]

Data Visualization: ‘Life’ of Open Source Projects

By ⋅ June 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Part of the “art” of communicating IT and business abstractions – technical challenges, project roadmaps, budget performance, customer relationships, IT effectiveness – is landing on the right visualization. A picture tells a thousand words, and if you can draw the picture well, your target audience will grasp these concepts quickly, and (potentially) get insights that [...]

Home Development Workstation – Part 3

By ⋅ May 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

See also … Home Development Workstation – Part 1 Home Development Workstation – Part 2 Ok, here’s where we put the rest of these boxes, switches, wires, and other assorted doo dads in their place. Again, the witty reader will note that I am following along with Jeff Atwood’s Build a PC posts from last [...]

Home Development Workstation – Part 2

By ⋅ May 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

See also … Home Development Workstation – Part 1 If You Build It … For starters, I give major props to Jeff Atwood’s series on building a PC, because the step-by-step assembly notes, and the overriding “calm down, it’s like Legos!” tone … all very comforting. I tend to be a “ready, fire, aim” kinda [...]

Home Development Workstation – Part 1

By ⋅ May 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Why I think that every techie should go through the experience of building up a desktop workstation from the ground level. Maybe it’s because I date back to the days of the PC XT, when computer support duties regularly had us tearing down cases, changing jumper settings and plugging in individual chips for memory expansions. [...]

Inspiration, with some elements of Science
BigDog: Impressive Robotics

By ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t often post YouTube videos, but this one elicited a “wow” … I’ve only dabbled in AI-type programming, but I can appreciate the amount of computation that’s going on in real time here. The Big Dog recovers nicely from a hard shove at about 0:40, but that’s nothing compared to scrabbling on the ice [...]

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