Dear Industry Analysts… Think Green (aka stop sending me masses of mail)

Dear Industry Analyst firm,
Today I received an invitation to your Software Developer’s conference in yet another highly desirable location. Looks fantastic… exotic location, golf, spa… except I’m not a Software Developer. I don’t even pretend to play one on TV and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
I get 3-5 of these [...]

How did we get here?

Whew! What an “incredible” period of uncertainty we’re in. (I like to use incredible as a long time ago I was told when you answer the question of “How are you?” If you answer incredible, you’re very likely telling the truth… you’re just not saying incredibly bad, or incredibly good). Anyway, the [...]

Power Outage in Cincinnati…

Got a kick out of this outage map for Duke Energy from the wind storm that is from the remnants of Ike.
Update: 24 hrs later… Duke reports approximately 500,000 are without power. A decrease of about 70,000 from yesterday. The map is no longer available on their site though. Hmmmmmm.
Update: We now [...]

The Greening of America…

Last year around this time, I made a bet with a German colleague of mine that the U.S. was no closer to becoming a greener nation… unless it made financial sense to do so (i.e. the costs to be green are not worth  the effort).  He tended to agree, but thought the U.S. was a [...]

3 Dots… and an earthquake…

Earthquake?  In the Midwest?  That’s right, our family was greeted with some tremors from a 5.4 earthquake that hit ~200 miles away… We all woke up wondering what could make our house shake like it was… lamps, shades, anything not nailed down was shaking…  It was over in about 20 seconds and I commented  that [...]

My alma mater is a Social Butterfly…

As an Ohio State grad, I get various e-mails talking about the latest/greatest research projects, new ventures etc going on there. Yesterday the top story was O.S.YouTube on their foray into the social media world with facebook, youtube and flickr. Makes sense… another way to reach out to future/current customers (prospective and current [...]