I have been using Wave for the last couple days, mainly for doing project and task planning with our offshore developers. I have also used it just to goof around and generally insult others that are on Wave as well, all in good fun. Here are my thoughts so far: Good: The real time editing […]
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Google Wave – Amazing Demo of What’s Coming Next
I use Google tech for just about everything: Google Voice Gmail Docs Search Picasa This demo about Wave, which is not yet released, may be one of the best demos I have ever seen. Wave is a new way to think about not only email, but how you communicate in real time with the rest […]
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 […]
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 […]
Transparent logic
I have been paying a bit of attention to the efforts of the current administration to make the government more open and transparent. Particularly, today I spent a good bit of time on the USA Spending site. I was reading a review of the new IT spending section and decided to check it out. I […]
iPhone? Hardly tells the story
Last night our home lost power in the middle of the night due to some pretty nasty rain storms. What happened in the next 5 minutes after the power dropped provides a really clear picture of why the iPhone is my favorite piece of technology. When the power went out, I woke up to the […]
Create Your Own Sonos Without Spending $1200
I have been working on creating a home sound environment without investing in Sonos, mainly because it just seemed overpriced. Over the last couple weeks I have built what is essentially a Sonos equivalent without having to invest all that money. I now have a home wireless stereo environment that allows me to stream my […]
Nerd humor
Back in March, a bunch of us computer dorks were at a conference in Las Vegas. One of the guys from our office had given us a USB thumbdrive to take with us, and it was formatted with the label ‘Return To Stu.’ Given that our co-worker had gone to such lengths to make sure […]
The Road Ahead For Education
About a year ago I had lunch with Henry Kaestner of Bandwidth.com about micro finance in developing countries. As a part of that lunch, I shared with Henry my ideas around changing education for the better in the next 5-10 years. My ideas during the lunch were based primarily on the book ‘Four Hour Workweek’ […]