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Mar 18, 2011
Foto Friday – Redbud in Bloom

Here's a shot from our backyard Redbud tree. I rented a Nikon D700 from the great folks at Borrowlenses.com for a week to try it out. I like it a quite a

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Mar 17, 2011
Disaster Recovery – are you prepared?

The events in Japan over the last week are heartbreaking....but there's lessons to learn from these events. Elliot Ross has a great post titled Disaster

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Mar 15, 2011
Application Modernization – "Plumbing projects" or roadmap to innovation & revenue?

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Application Modernization....only two words...but two words that denote a big undertaking for most

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Mar 13, 2011
Links for March 13 2011

Why People Are the Heart & Soul of the Information Age by Tim Sanders on Sanders Says - Quote: ... highly engaged innovators produce the breakthrough

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Mar 11, 2011
Foto Friday – Sparrow Chomping on Seeds

I caught this little sparrow a few weeks ago at Spring Creek in Garland. Captured with my Canon 1D Mark III with Canon 400mm 5.6 L and Canon 1.4x Extender

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Mar 10, 2011
Generalists are good, experts can be better (sometimes)

Earlier this week I provided a rundown of my experience going through a sleep study in a post titled To manage it, measure it…but don’t destroy it in the

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Mar 8, 2011
To manage it, measure it...but don't destroy it in the process

I'm a big believer in the mindset that you've got to measure it to manage it. If you can't measure something, its very difficult to manage that

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Mar 6, 2011
Links for March 6 2011

Lessons From a Corporate Insider: Dream Big, but Think Small by Mark Ivey on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: Rather than delude yourself into

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Mar 4, 2011
Foto Friday – Turtle Sunning

Here's a shot of a turtle sunning itself that I captured over the weekend. I needed to get out of the house for a few hours so I went up to the Heard

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Mar 3, 2011
A lesson in Customer Relations

Yesterday I spent some time going through my inbox and cleaning up a lot of email newsletters / services that I've subscribed to.  I think I unsubscribed

EB
Mar 1, 2011
Oh boy! Another Project Management Certification...

I just saw an announcement that the Project Management Institute has a new Project Management Certification for Agile that they are piloting now (hat tip

EB
Feb 27, 2011
Links for Feb 27 2001

It is all about The Customer by Neil Pearce Quote: Too often we in the IT department are seen as being out of touch by other people within the business

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Feb 25, 2011
Foto Friday – Antelope Canyon sand flow

Here's yet another shot from our trip to Antelope Canyon last year.  I love the colors and light in this canyon and the flowing sand adds to the photo.

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Feb 24, 2011
Three simple questions for project selection

Neil Pearce just published a very nice piece titled "It is all about The Customer". Go read it. In the article, Neil argues that IT needs to focus on

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Feb 22, 2011
The joys of tax time + a lesson

I've spent the few weeks working on my taxes. Fun Fun, right? It's actually not too bad to be honest...our tax situation isn't too terribly convoluted but

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