EB
May 3, 2013
Foto Friday – Backyard Sparrow

Captured with a canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld Exif: 1/250, ƒ/7.1, ISO 400, 400 mm

EB
May 2, 2013
Tips for making good coffee (and building better teams)

There are many ways to make coffee.   You've got your pre-ground coffee. You're pre-packaged coffee. Whole Bean coffee.  Self-roasted coffee.  Instant

EB
May 1, 2013
Innovation & The CIO – A twitter chat summary #CIOInnovate

I had the pleasure of moderating / hosting a twitter chat yesterday (Tuesday April 30 2013) involving the topic of Innovation & the CIO using the

EB
Apr 29, 2013
Desktop Virtulization as a solution for BYOD

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) discussions continue to occur across most organizations. While most BYOD discussions revolve around security

EB
Apr 28, 2013
Links for April 28 2013

A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be

EB
Apr 27, 2013
The challenge of Mobility and Enterprise Security

First it was laptop computers, now its tablets. The enterprise is getting more mobile and IT groups have to find ways to ensure security can keep up. This

EB
Apr 26, 2013
Cloud Computing and the Desktop Client

Everyone's moving to the cloud. Rightly so...the cloud brings scalability and agility and it provides opportunities for true innovation by IT groups. Many

EB
Apr 26, 2013
Foto Friday – Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (2013)

I went out for a walk last night and saw a couple Scissor-tailed Flycatcher's catching bugs on the ground. I laid down on the ground and inched as close

EB
Apr 24, 2013
Twitter caused the Stock Market to Crash! (not really)

This is a cross-post from Trade The Sentiment. On April 23 2013, the Associated Press reportedly had their Twitter account hacked. At 1:07PM Eastern Time,

EB
Apr 23, 2013
VMware Online Event 2013 – Happening Now

VMware's Online Forum 2013 is starting now.  Jump on and learn more about virtualization, automation and management tools.  There are live breakout

EB
Apr 21, 2013
Links for April 21 2013

The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations - Jim Stikeleather - Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from

EB
Apr 19, 2013
Foto Friday – Oklahoma City Memorial

Today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Rather than do my normal Foto Friday, I wanted to add a few photos from the Bombing Memorial. Enjoy

EB
Apr 18, 2013
Always Learning. Or: my attempt to improve my (horrid) programming habits

I'm the worlds worst developer. Really. I am. I don't follow best practices and my coding style is the oft-chided "brute force" method. I owe (blame?) my

EB
Apr 14, 2013
Links for April 14 2013

Young and Hungry - carpe factum Quote: Young and hungry is not about ego. In proving itself, young and hungry lets the accomplishment trump the

EB
Apr 12, 2013
BYOD – reducing costs and complexity for IT

I've written about the topic "Bring your own Device" (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does

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