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Last month, I was in Europe for a week on business. Madison to Chicago, To London to Milton Keynes, to Zurich, back to London and then to Chicago and Madison. Was a real good trip (the business side, and seeing UK and Switzerland), but there were some things that just seemed.. well, weird. Driving on [...]

Challenges. Every day, everyone faces some kind of challenge. From the most lazy point of view, “Can I get out of bed today”, to “Making it to work on time”, to also “Making sure my children are taking care of”, and “Making sure we have enough money”, and then with work, “Making sure we get [...]

Yesterday, 4/20.. 10 years ago. I started working in my first tech job, at St. Cloud Wireless Holdings/Cellular 2000/Northern PCS. Helpdesk. Which turned into sysadmin stuff, then programming, then development. Then Freeze.com, now W3i, .NET, C++, then Data Warehousing, Independent.. Business Intelligence, then Strategem, DBA stuff, more .NET development, then Trek.. Business Intelligence…and now with [...]

Well, I had a good run, like a full week of a blog every day, then sputtered out. I hate blog posts about blogging as much as the next guy, but I feel like I need to write. Between tons of stuff going on at work (Trek World is coming up next week!) – which [...]

Since working at Trek, I have been hounded to get a new bike, even more so than by my friends in Portland when I lived there, and EVERYONE has like 5 bikes there. So, I finally decided to pick up a new bike, a Trek 7.2 FX, Newport Blue, 22.5 inch. It’s a Hybrid – [...]

Since I make a living and love working on Windows, SQL, Windows Server, Office, Exchange, etc, it is kind of weird I am a Mac guy. Never thought it would happen. iPhone, Mac, Macbook Pro, Apple TV, Time Capsule, accessories… Anyways, since Ella was born, I have TONS of pics and videos of her, on [...]

So last night I decided it was time. Time to put and end to the madness, the quizzes, the nonsense, the “friends on my list that aren’t really my friends” game. What I decided to do was just… delete them all. Everyone. Then see how my “friend” list grows from there. I think one thing [...]

I have been using IM since 1995/1996 starting with “procomm plus” then ICQ (my number is in the first 600,000) Now there are multiple clients, windows live, yahoo, aim, gtalk, facebook, myspace, icq, and more. Take all the IM programs, and the multi clients, trillian, digsby, pidgen. meebo, etc.; I have used them all. Nothing [...]

Yammer iPhone app goes Open Source – Yammer is a kind of Twitter clone, but for your company. I believe it is made by the same people that created Geni.com. Pretty cool that it is open source, just another way to get a good idea on how to build iPhone apps. WordPress has their app [...]

Now that Ella is home with us from the hospital, of course reality sets in, which means for her: eat, sleep, poop in no particular order. The thing is, tracking feedings and diapers and what is going on gets tough, and with so much going on and the tiredness of the parents, how do you [...]