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Book Review: What If?
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall MunroeMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI haven't enjoyed a book.. I mean ENJOYED.. this much in a long time. It's a fun read, each...
View ArticleToiling in Anonymity, a brief memoir
This morning the world is particularly excited about the Philae spacecraft. It's goal is to land on a comet to use it's bee-bop's and doo-dad's (technical terms obviously) to collect gasses and mineral...
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How to gain and lose a customer
I had an interesting turn of events this AM. So much so, I thought it would be a great way to make my first post of 2015. I’ll get to the aforementioned events, but first.. the back story. A little...
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Book Review: The Innovators
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter IsaacsonMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI will say unequivocally, anyone who is in the IT field -...
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A diatribe on how not to give a resignation
<rant>We had an employee quit today. He wasn’t my employee, but instead a co worker and member of the IT “team”. He emailed his letter of resignation and informed the company tomorrow would be...
View ArticleGoing to the App Store – Lessons Learned
In late April, 2014 I was an attendee at the Windows Build conference. Conferences are a great way to “get out” and focus on higher level items rather than fight through the weeds. A number of...
View ArticleTell an interesting story about yourself (some of the best advice I ever got)
I was at a company sales meeting in New York City this past weekend. I know, normally not my cup of green tea, but it was actually an awesome event. I got a chance to touch base with a lot of my...
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Book Review – The New Kings of Nonfiction
The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira GlassMy rating: 5 of 5 starsSo I started working on this book several months ago. I enjoyed picking it up and reading a chapter, but that's all it was, just a...
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How’s That New Job Working Out? (And what its like to stick it through)
Just over 6 months ago, I posted a brief rant on what it means when a team member quits on you and sprays napalm on your work environment and leaves you to pick up the pieces.I’m not really bitter...
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Adventures in Cookin’ – Potato Chowder
It’s early October and technically Autumn, but outside it feels closer to winter with it being rainy and low 40’s. This morning my daughter had dance class, on the way home I was in the mood to make...
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Book Review – How We Got to Now
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven JohnsonMy rating: 4 of 5 starsBased on several online recommendations I picked up this book for pretty cheap off of Amazon.. it...
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Book Review – Bad Paper
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld by Jake HalpernMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI had been listening to This American Life recently, and the name of the show was "Magic Words". The...
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Book Review – Beyond Measure: The big impact of small changes
Beyond measure: the big impact of small changes by Margaret HeffernanMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI was listening to the NPR TED Radio Hour and heard Margaret Heffernan speak, and was inspired to pick up her...
View ArticleWhy I eat my lunch
“Don’t forget your lunch” my wife reminds me, as she often needs to, as I step out the door in the morning. It’s not just that she wants to ensure her husband doesn’t become malnourished, it’s because...
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Book Review – Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben MacintyreMy rating: 5 of 5 starsA few years ago, I took to the book "The Longest Day". A number of family and friends did the annoying thing and...
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Adventures in Brewin’ – True Brew - Bavarian Hefeweizen
Many years ago I had a semi-successful attempt at brewing homemade beer. I made a stout, ran out of beer bottles, bottled in 1 and 2 liter plastic bottles, and added too much sugar causing my stout to...
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My top tips for making your user experience design not suck
I’ve taken a fun little transition in user design and user experience. After a number of years developing websites, I’ve spent the past year help shape the user experience of my company’s iPad app....
View ArticleShangri La Diet (1 Week In)
I read Freakonomics about 2 years ago, in it it mentioned the Shangri La diet (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/does-the-truth-lie-within.html), which spits in the face of all other diets...
View ArticleSSRS 2012 – 401 Unauthorized and “Unknown Username or Bad Password”
I’ve been developing software for (unlucky) 13 years now. I’m not doing anything bleeding edge, I’m not pushing boundaries or running beta software on production software, but I do write my fair share...
View ArticleWhy are you telling people you don’t know how to spell a username?
In a previous post I openly told the world that after 2+ days with a production issue, I found myself telling everyone “I mispelled the username.. my bad!”. I told the story enough times my wife...
View ArticleAdventures in Brewin’–True Brew Belgian Ale
Hard to believe it was over 3 months ago since I made my first homebrew, but with the wintry weather outside and no good reason to brave the elements, I took advantage of an empty house, gathered up my...
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Book Review: I Heard You Paint Houses
"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles BrandtMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis wasn't the easiest book to get through because the writing...
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik LarsonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsEvery Google, Bing, or Yahoo search of "best nonfiction" always returned at...
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Book Review - Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik LarsonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI'm very late to the Erik Larson game - shame on me! This is my second book of his, and for a second time I'm most...
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Book Review – Isaac’s Storm
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik LarsonMy rating: 5 of 5 starsComing in hot after finishing Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, Isaac's Storm was the...
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