There were a couple of things I wanted TypePad to do better. Once was searching and the other was opening external pages in a new window - so that visitors could easily come back to the blog after clicking on a link.
TypePad has a widget for the new browser window feature, but even though it seemed to have code to handle the situation, it opened all links - even ones within the blog - in a new window. You can imagine how annoying this is.
South Park characters, road signs, newsprint headlines and Bush speeches are just some of the on-line generators you can link to from this generator blog. Not only is it hours of fun, but it can come in really useful for web design and marketing ideas.
Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.
View from Jim's seats at Gillette stadium.
New England Patriot fans take their tailgating pretty seriously. In inclement weather, folks use portable, collapsible canopies and propane space-heaters to carve out a little comfort.
This blog is now a year old. Nobody reads it, but I’m enjoying it as a way to chronicle my doings. I also use it as a collection-point for interesting content and tips that I can find easily and point people to.
As a side note, the number of birthday-cake clip-art options that come with Microsoft Office, is truly staggering.
I've been working at Toyota in LA for the past few weeks, and found a great hotel: www.hotelportofino.com. When I'm lucky, I get an ocean-side room. This is the view from my balcony.
The one and only Massachusetts REDSOX license plate has been spotted! Those who know me know that I'm a fan, and that I drove around with the NOMAR plate for years. I'm still a Garciaparra fan, but when he left for the Cubs, I had to change my plate. The best I could come up with is WEDSOX. Hats off to the owner who was kind enough to come out and say hello as I was snapping a pic of his plate with my camera phone.
This month I started my new position at Palladium Group, Inc., a merger between the shareholders of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., Painted Word Inc., and ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. The new company forms the largest professional services firm solely focused on strategy execution, the complementary combination of strategy-focused organizations and corporate performance management.
New hires are given a project to complete as part of a training / acclimation exercise. This photo (sent from my mobile phone) was taken in our project team's "war room" late on day two of the three day project.
So I finally got to see STAR WARS III on a digital screen at the Century cinemas in San Jose, CA. If you can find a digital screen (DLP) in your area that's showing the film, be sure to get out and see it.
The audio is going to be spectacular in a DLP theater, and the animated scenes really come to life without the added "noise" of a film transfer.
Rich Schiesser: IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures
To all the CEO's out there - read this book, then take a long, hard look at your IT department. (IT managers, read this book before your CEO does.)
Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Light read, but enjoyable. Recommended for anyone (technical or non-technical) involved in a web applicaton project.
Ralph Kimball: The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin
Make this the first book you read on data warehousing.
Shilpa Lawande: Oracle 10g Data Warehousing
This is an amazing book by an amazing technical author. A must-read for dba's involved with Oracle data warehouseing projects.
Simon Robinson: Professional C# (Programmer to Programmer)
Aimed at experienced programmers, this book is remarkably complete.
Laura Lemay: Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
If you've worked with any scripting languages before, this book will actually teach you in 5 days.
