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Woods along the road

Woods along the road

Walking down the streets of Jaipur we encountered one of the more disturbing things in India - people who are cripple, suffered from polio, or amputation.

Walking down the streets of Jaipur we encountered one of the...

Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Carved Stone and Wood Hotel.jpg

Joshua posing in front of the Jal Mahal

Joshua posing in front of the Jal Mahal

Josh wanted the same photo!

Josh wanted the same photo!

Cable Car

Cable Car

The chickens!

The chickens!

I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made some kind of mental error thinking that this train would be more like the Ave in Spain or the ICE in Germany. Oh no! It is expr ...

I wanted a photo with me and India's 'high speed rail'. I made...

Challenging the Hierarchy

Dogs will always attempt to become higher than you in the pack order. You have to sometimes physically remind them you are more important than they are. If you do not, they they start to nip, fight, even bite you. Just watch an episode of Cesar Millan and you will see that 99% of the [...]

Why Focus on Process?

If you are taking a moment to read this short blog post, you might want to first detour out of here to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_command_system.

Ok, back? That is the nearly universal Incident Command System and most anyone schooled in the area of rescue, search, disaster management, etc… will be familiar with it. My first exposure to [...]

5 Tips for Helping Guide Technical Decisions

Here are 5 technical ideals that we should make sure all of our work conforms to and how they each support your local Value Proposition.

Support the Value Proposition – Yes! You thought the first one would be anything but? Make sure your work supports the Value Proposition! If this isn’t clear take a moment [...]

Starting Point in Teaching PMO Processes

The primary issue being how do you create a very domain specific document for people who are not immersed in the domain? To that end I have created a this diagram. It is impossible to intrudice a domain without domain language, if this is so new to you that you are lost, please drop me [...]

Maine Canine News

Hi Ellie,

Happy Passover! Just had some Matzo..it was plain..would have preferred some peanut butter with it.

Sorry it has taken so long to write but I cannot get to the computer without you being here. Cart and I miss you and so does Harlow. She says you were so much fun to annoy and [...]

Snowland

Hi Dad,

Thanks for the food and treats! Sorry I haven’t written. Just been really busy dealing with winter. Guess G_Mom told you we were all sick and just staying in bed for several days. Better now! I hurt my thigh doing Wii Yoga, so I had to behave for several days. It really fooled [...]

Magic Makes the Rules Obsolete

It was the start of 2009. I had managed to sell my house in Hoboken in an incredible down market for a serious multiple above what I paid for it, I managed to bargain down the new place to a reasonable cost, I had an exit strategy from a stagnant job and was in the [...]

Working with Constraints

Working without constraints is not really that much fun and while we all think, at times, that it would be easier if only we had X, Y, Z, having it all causes a whole host of other issues. Moreover, the tighter the parameters on a project the more fun it can be to solve the [...]

Résumé & CV

Senior Information Technology Leader

Strategy • Operations • Development • Implementation

Information technology professional with 19 years of experience leading the design, development, and implementation of business software and infrastructure. Frequently leading projects that are critical to business success and high profile in both startups and mature corporations. Advanced technical acuity [...]

Structure of the Startup?

I have been thinking a bit about how you structure the start up of today. This also includes older companies looking to bring the best of the startup mentality onboard for rebirth. Maybe we can call this re-starting-up? There are a couple problems that I think are valid in my current position that have made [...]

Zoology to Dev: Lessons in Learning & Teaching

I get asked a lot about why I have a background in Zoology (particularly, marine and even more particularly, neuroscience) but now work in IT. It is a little hard to describe quickly, especially since this question is often asked by an HR representative over the phone as part of an interview.

To answer this [...]

Some Notes on Agile

The purpose of this post is to give a very short template of what each project should do to work in the Agile framework and with Rally (our project mgmt tool). Now that a lot of you have had some exposure to Rally and Agile this seems like a logical next step.

To start: a [...]

Wicked Good ‘Hi Ellie’

Hi Ellie,

My Mom is at work and this new computer that your Dad brought her is very easy to work. Mom leaves it on and uses it a lot more. We can hear and see Katie now and that is so much fun. Harlow sits next to Mom and watches Katie on the computer [...]

Currency Collection

A little trinket of my travels augmented by a couple friendly additions can be found on the inside cover my my work portfolio – by Il Bisonte of course, now mass market crap here (and by that I mean Gucci, Prada, Fendi, LV, etc…). Also in there are my tickets to Petra and the Prado. [...]

Blow’ In The Wind

Dad, have to make this quick…power goes on and off! We are also surrounded by flood water. This has been an unbelievable 24 hours. 60-70 miles an hour winds and things blowing everywhere and hitting the house. Don’t worry I protected everyone. G_Mom made us go out in the wind and rain to use the [...]

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