Well, a few weeks ago at BarCampRDU, Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers talked about writing three pages longhand every morning and how it was “good for your brain.”  I think that the reasoning is that is occupies some of the “logic” part of your brain in such a way that the “creative” part of [...]

Around the same time as I accepted my new job, I found out about BarCampRDU. I went ahead and signed up for it. I figured, “Hey, free conference.” It was this past Saturday and I had a really good time. I met a few other IBMers and also heard some interesting [...]

PartialLobotomy.com has an interesting list of questions to ask your boss. I’m pretty sure if I asked my boss these questions he’d get scared and run away. Hmmm…perhaps that means I should think about a career move.

IBM recently sent out a cooperate wide initiative called Think Friday. Basically it is an attempt to be more Googlish and Friday afternoons are to be spent thinking, researching, prototyping, or whatever in the idea of technical vitality.
Well, I spent most of my Think Friday hooked up to an information firehose, and man is my [...]

For the past few weeks I have hooked myself up to an information fire hose. My desire to learn and to sharpen my knowledge edge has definitely been renewed. I’m not exactly sure what did it, I think I’ve just felt like I’ve been in a bit of a rut.
I have been downloading [...]

I hope it is not a midlife crisis, because I hope to live longer than 56 years, but lately I’ve been feeling a lot like I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up, and I’ve been a bit all over the place about it.
Sometimes I feel like I want [...]

Welp, I got the flu this year. I’ve spent the past 5 days being pretty darn sick. Three of those days I had a temp of about 103 (That’s right, I was hot blooded! Check it and see!). It sucked, it came out of nowhere and hit me like a ton of [...]

Well, I must admit at I was none too impressed with Mambo or Joomla or whatever it wants to be called now. So in an effort to find something I did like better I have now switched to Wordpress. I actually kinda liked the PostNuke software I used before, but it was a [...]