I’ve had a storied career, well maybe not storied but an interesting one I should think. Well maybe not interesting but at least I ain’t pick’n cotton. Not there is anything wrong with picking cotton I’m just not doing it. Anyway… Today was an awesome day at work. I had the chance to do something … Read More “The way Wii are” »
Month: June 2008
Part of an annual compliance training I saw posted on the internet of some random company: “I got a call from a reporter at a local newspaper. She wants to know what I think about a recent event about your employer. Should I talk to her?” Answer: *NO* What? As a journalist by training I … Read More “Don't talk to Reporters?” »
Favourite quote of the day, “If your program needs goto (especially in C++) the design is screwed.” –Erunno Thanks Faceboo for lowering my respect for your platform. I’ll be the first to admit I am a bad programmer, so bad I had to become a enterprise architect to avoid programming. Seriosly though, even I know … Read More “GOTO Facebook” »
I don’t really know much about it. It looks like FaceBook to me. It gives you the option to upload a photo. Oddly it ask you not to upload a picture of a pet. Now that is weird…
A colleauge of mine was interested in utilizing social networking as an adjunct to a project she is running. The idea was to use a Web 2.0 technology that would enable people to connect with people with similar interest. “Easy!”, I said. FaceBook just released their platform as open source. Of course I had only … Read More “FaceBook OpenPlatform? More like SadFace BrokenPlatform” »
We recently purchased the Roomba 530 iRobot from Amazon.com. Why Amazon? Well a year ago I was browsing for some books on Amazon and they were offering the Amazon Visa credit card with a $30.00 credit. Plus they were offering Amazon points for every $1 spent. Since my Sony Visa Card points had been recently … Read More “Roomba 530 donimates Chennault living room” »
Working in a large health care environment it is easy to think that the hospital, clinic, what have you is the center of care. Indeed in my own thinking I often think that while care starts at the home it inevitably ends up at some medical center whether that be real or virtual (i.e call … Read More “It is the patient stupid” »
One of the better quotes I’ve read regarding the steps a corporation should take when luanching into social media was made by Valdis Krebs, “…focusing first on the sociology of building networks and then supporting those social networks with technology — the correct sequence of attention…”