Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2012
Today, Chris Bailey published People Before Tools: Creating a Better Remote Working System, which was a commentary on a previous post, Stop whining and start hiring remote workers, by David Heinemeier Hansson at 37signals. I dropped a comment on both posts because I feel strongly that management inertia and insecurity, not tools or “culture” are the primary reasons [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2011
Last evening, I exchanged a few tweets with the folks at Janetter (@Janetter_jp), the Twitter client I just installed on my MacBook. Overall, I really like Janetter. It is a big improvement over Tweetdeck, which got bought a few months ago by Twitter, and now appears to have been put in stasis. The folks at Jane, [...]
Posted in ecology, personal, Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2011
So, here we are, a full week after I posted the last animation of the restoration of Connecticut’s “Snoctober” electricity disaster, and just 177 of the original 800,000+ CL&P customers remain without power. I have friends around the state on Twitter that were a full 9 days without electricity. Please keep in mind when watching [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2011
This is a short animation of the Connecticut Light & Power outage map. It begins on Monday, Oct. 31 at about 2 pm and proceeds in very roughly 2 hour increments (except for “sleep time”) until this morning, Thursday, Nov. 3 at about 7am. I made this by taking screen shots of the map with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2011
On the anniversaries of tragic events, it’s eventually asked what we learned from that event. From 9-11, I hope we have learned the liabilities of faith. The hijackers who piloted the airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and into that Pennsylvania field did so because they were sold on the idea that their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2011
When the earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear reactor situations happened in Japan, people on Twitter sprang into action. Even before the aftershocks tapered off, people were giving to the Red Cross and other charities to help the disaster victims. While money is fine to give, money is not what Japan needs, really. People displaced or [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2011
I’ve been working on a little SaaS project I call AdTraqr that helps advertisers determine which ad placements are most effective. It employs those darlings of Japan, QR codes, which were invented by a Toyota subsidiary to track parts inventory. Here’s one that points to my About.me profile page: The way AdTraqr works is that [...]
Posted in personal, Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2011
The following was sent to me by someone with whom I play golf, but also share a great friendship. I know him as Tony, but to his parishioners, he’s Father Dinoto. His uncanny ability to putt has taken many a dollar from my wallet on the golf course, but it’s been worth every penny. Herewith [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2010
I am trying to find some graphic web design help with a sweat equity project I’m working on. I’m a career software engineer/programmer and I can handle all the programming tasks associated with the project, but it’s the design and CSS/HTML details that challenge me. It seems to be some sort of left-brain/right-brain thing. People [...]
Posted in social media, Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2010
There’s a 1950 Disney cartoon called “Motor Mania” featuring Goofy as a Jekyll and Hyde character who turns from polite Mr. Walker to raging Mr. Wheeler when he gets into his car to drive. It’s still as relevant today as it was 60 years ago, although now we call it road rage. It goes right [...]