As I wrote yesterday I love TED Talks… oh yea and I did also mention a growing sense of disenfranchisement.
I try not to take the information I gather for granted, and one of the joys I experience is in sharing with others. Of course, I am aware that sometimes it can be overwhelming and I [...]
Working at a large technology company I’m familiar with the “graying” of IT. While often public perspective on “technology” is skewed by the Kevin Rose’s of the world in enterprise situations it’s often much different.
It’s not uncommon to start a job as the only “new hire” around, surrounded by people who’ve been working in their [...]
6 weeks! Wow, yes it’s really been that long since I started reading Programming Collective Intelligence and last posted here.
A lot has happened during that time, my wife got a new job and because of that we moved. We’re both happy about the chance to “evolve” and I think it’s going to enable a lot [...]
I seem to be having a confluence of technology issues recently.
Dreamhost, which I’ve loved until now can’t seem to follow through on a simple request (so that I can pay them!!!). And that 1TB drive I “gave” myself for Christmas has failed and the manufacturer hasn’t returned my service call.
To top if off, last night [...]
I was watching a presentation on my iPhone on implementation of MapReduce for multi-core and multi-processor systems…
You can find out more about it at the project’s website.
Before you go.. note the “~christos” part of the URL. In UNIX-speak it means “the home directory of the user christos”. That little “squiggle” is called a tilde and [...]
Just a quick post before the holidays, I’ll be traveling quite a bit so we’ll see how everything holds up.
While planning out this trip, I was thinking about making a “My Maps” Google map. I tried this technique while I was in Philadelphia but unfortunately it wasn’t successful.
While the iPhone’s built in map application is [...]
I haven’t yet “made it out” whether that’s working for new man or on my own, but I have a few friends who have managed to make that type of transition, *hi guys*. In fact I have a friend that works in Dakar who’s literally had to pack a bullet proof vest for one of [...]
This past weekend I had the privilege of watching my wife run a marathon. This makes the third one we’ve done, and while the first two were a little overwhelming I feel like this time we “knew what we were doing”.
If you ever get a chance to go watch a marathon do it! Don’t make [...]
Monk at work has another great post about the CrossFit motto; “General Physical Preparedness”. It’s a style of physical training that Adam relates to work, and continual improvement. Something he terms “General Work Preparedness” with admonishment to “Generalize, not specialize” because “specialization has its price”.
I think it’s similar to a discussion I had with [...]
I’ve been reading Monk at Work and have really enjoyed the honest, unfettered professionalism it brings. Adam merges the sometimes harsh world of management and motivation with what I consider to be a southern “cut to the chase” attitude, all while maintaining a zen-like absence of frustration which I envy him for having.
In Are You [...]
