“To be honest,” the president said “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize, men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.”
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Christmas in October
Last Saturday night in Raleigh, my wife and I had the good fortune of taking in the U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium. This was my third time seeing them, the last time being in 2005 when we traveled to Philadelphia. If you have read about my experience seeing Coldplay back in August, you know that […]
Update: Health Care – Incent vs Tax
A few weeks ago, I wrote about using incentives to drive down the cost of health care, rather than laying on onerous new taxes on sugar, fat, and other harmful foods. Today, it seems the Senate has adopted at least some of the concepts I was talking about. Read about it, and let me know […]
The Network Effect – Part Two
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that yesterday I recommended buying Lars Brownworth’s new book, Lost To The West. You also ( hopefully ) have read my first post about The Network Effect as well. Lars is the brother of Anders, whom I mention here with some amount of regularity. Yesterday was the […]
Health Care – Incent vs. Tax
There was a really good article in the NY Times last week about the effects of diet on American’s general health and well-being, and consequently, health care costs. For anyone that pays attention, this is no surprise. If you live in suburban America, you would have to be blind not to see the rampant obesity […]
Talking vs. Doing
I work for a large software company, and the things that go on here on a daily basis take me through a large range of emotions, most of them unpleasant. It’s the first time I have ever worked for a global company with 15,000+ employees, and it has been a tough adjustment to say the […]
Annoying Software Product Demos
One of the my largest pet peeves has to do with software product demos and the lack of attention paid to information I provide ahead of time. I cannot tell you how many demos I sit in on where the sales rep asks me for specific things I want covered ahead of time, and then […]
Katrina – A Spike Lee Joint
I was cruising the channels late Saturday afternoon and stumbled across the airing of the movie ‘When The Levees Broke – A Requiem in Four Parts’, a docudrama directed by Spike Lee. The movie recounts the events leading up to and following the disastrous landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. I have always been […]
Loyalty
I am not a car guy. I never really have been. I like driving really nice cars, but don’t like paying for them. As a result, I drive a 1995 Honda Accord that I have owned for 15 years, and that has almost 200,000 miles on it. Most of the time, this works in my […]
The network effect – lesson learned
Recently the pastor of my church here in Raleigh received a request to assist the people in Pakistan whose homes were torched and burned and whose were people badly injured or murdered. If you did not hear about it, there were approximately 2000 families that were driven from their homes by Muslim radicals. The village […]