July 2008
1 post
Changing world, why are we behind?
I read a story today here that made me think of my previous career. I started typing a response to my friend who emailed it to me and decided to blog instead.
I have a lot of philosophies why the American car companies fail and the Japanese are outpacing us. It seems that whenever GM spun off Saturn they had the chance to right the wrongs that were leading to this point, they could have chosen...
June 2008
5 posts
Cheers to change!
I have been thinking a lot about change and how it can affect you in both positive and negative ways. In my life I have ALWAYS welcomed change and I think it is this attitude that has led me to have to make decisions, and with each decision made a lesson learned. The key is to use those lessons to hedge your change risk in a positive direction - NOT EASY. Those who know me know probably realize...
Thoughts of the morning
Probably because I have had a lot of coffee and manual labor this morning, but here are my thoughts of the day:
I’m glad I’m not a Roly-Poly bug
“Viva El Toro” - my lawn mower allowed me to cut the entire front yard on mere fumes, starting to think that if I peed in the tank I’d be able to finish the backyard as well
I probably don’t operate without coffee,...
Increasing my web efficiency
I don’t have time to go a million places on the web and nowadays there are dozens if not hundreds of services that grab a bunch of data and spit it out to me in a nice readable fashion. For example rss readers for gathering news, delicious for my bookmarks, etc. And then there are the sites that show me as many at once as possible like netvibes or igoogle or mytrade.
What i want goes...
too much regulation
i don’t know what makes us do it, but as adults we run in the direction that we tell our kids to run away from. my kids are too young for sports right now, but that doesn’t keep me from the ball field on a beautiful (albeit stiflingly hot) sunday afternoon for a championship game of five and six year old coach pitch/teeball.
i guess it makes sense in this pc world to try and make up...
two 3 year olds (and God)
joe demling passed away yesterday afternoon. for those of you who don’t know, he is my nieces’ grandfather, a legend at trinity high school, and an unbelievable father & grandfather.
in this experience i was able to gain some perspective from the least expected place. i picked up my 3 year old niece and took her to the park to play with my 3 year old daughter and i had told my...