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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Jenny Lake Turnout, Grand Tetons

Here's another from the photogarchives - Jenny Lake Turnout - Grand Teton National Park taken a few years ago. Captured with Canon 5D and Canon 24-105.

Dec 9, 2011 · 1 min read
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Misc

Oklahoma State Football – Conference Champs (woot!)

Sorry folks...I have to go off-topic to say "Congrats" to the Oklahoma State football team.  No lessons learned in this post...I'm just happy to be able

Dec 6, 2011 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for December 4 2011

IT anti-patterns: reverse behavior lessons from Steve Jobs by Peter Kretzman on CTO/CIO Perspectives Quote: Unfortunately, for every Jobs out there with

Dec 4, 2011 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Backyard Canna

Yet another from the photoarchives. A photograph of a Canna flower in our backyard garden. Taken with a Canon 5D and Canon 24-105 mm. EXIF: 1/640 sec,

Dec 2, 2011 · 1 min read
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Technology

Xendow – Overcoming Cloud Storage Security Concerns?

I've been a long time user of Dropbox...I love that service. That said, I don't put anything in my Dropbox folder that I wouldn't mind other people

Dec 1, 2011 · 2 min read
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Customer Service

Recovering from Bad Customer Service

I love good customer service. Receiving excellent service from a company / person makes me feel good...it makes me happy and makes me excited to revisit

Nov 29, 2011 · 4 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for Nov 28 2011

The Job of a CIO - Content verses Context by John D. Halamka on Life as a Healthcare CIO Quote: Here's a bold thought - might the context of being a CIO

Nov 27, 2011 · 2 min read
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Information Technology

Recovering from Outsourcing – A CIO's Tale

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. In my last post titled Driving transformation with IT starts with transforming IT, I pointed out a

Nov 22, 2011 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for November 20 2011

What cloud boils down to for the enterprise By James Urquhart on GigaOm - Cloud Computing News Quote: What you do bring to the table–er, service–is code,

Nov 20, 2011 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Baby Chimp

Here's another from the photoarchive: A capture of a baby Chimp playing at the Dallas Zoo.  Captured at a bad time of day with the sun directly in front

Nov 18, 2011 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Driving transformation with IT starts with transforming IT

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I was just perusing the Enterprise CIO Forum and noticed the video of Canadian Pacific's CIO

Nov 17, 2011 · 2 min read
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People

Don't let "them" tell you you're wrong...

I ran across a very interesting article titled Why Gursky’s Photo of the Rhine is the World’s Most Expensive Photo that discusses a

Nov 15, 2011 · 2 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for November 13 2011

Leadership Is a Gift Given by Those Who Follow by Grant McCracken on Harvard Business Review Quote: Leadership as an act of service. As the General says,

Nov 13, 2011 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – In Honor of Veterans Day

In honor of Veteran's Day today in the US, I'm sharing this photo taken a few years ago from the deck of the USS North Carolina docked at Wilmington NC.

Nov 11, 2011 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

IT Projects – doomed from the start?

I just ran across an interesting research report titled "Doomed from the Start? Why a majority of business and IT teams anticipate their software

Nov 8, 2011 · 2 min read