Archive for March, 2010

Hats

March 25, 2010

If you were advising someone in the field or thinking about this as career, how would you describe this and the skills needed to be successful without scaring them away?

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The Real St. Patrick's Day

March 16, 2010

Tweet Back in the day, I was a green beer drinking idiot for St. Patrick’s Day and thought it was a celebration of the Irish.  Almost all Caucasians in America lay claim to some Irish ancestry, especially on March 17th.  I later evolved into a Guinness drinking idiot. Once, to honor my Irish ancestry, I [...]

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Chapman Mania

March 13, 2010

That is when it happened; Fernando Mania!

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In the clouds

March 12, 2010

Tweet If you are like me, you see a lot about cloud computing but pay little attention because it will never apply to small to medium sized businesses. I see it as the new “paradigm shift” from the Dilbert days of the 1990′s where everyone talks about it but has no idea what it means. [...]

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Bucket List

March 11, 2010

Ah, finally some warm weather. My mind is drifting toward baseball.

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Health Care – revisited

March 6, 2010

If they want to address health care costs why are we only concentrating on health insurance

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Science of God

March 6, 2010

CS Lewis wrote in The Joyful Christian that theology is the science of God.

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File Server to CMS

March 5, 2010

Tweet How do you get from a local file server to a content management system?  Evidently slowly is the answer. I read a lot of about CMS and its uses in different industries but I don’t find a lot about how you go from a local file server based data structure to a content management [...]

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Outsourcing or Insourcing

March 4, 2010

Tweet I recently research outsourcing the messaging system vs upgrading our internal system.  In this case, I use the term “outsoure” to describe the many hosted solutions available.  This brings up the question of how much outsourcing of your resources are you comfortible with? We can come up with scenerios where failures can make either inaccessible.  Most [...]

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Hello world!

March 3, 2010

Tweet Hello.  This is blog about technology from the point of view of an average, every-day, IT guy working in a non-high tech industry in a non-high tech location.  I am not the expert on most technology but I have learned by using it, breaking it, fixing it, and having others break it again.  I [...]

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