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“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be [...]

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Well, it’s a Thursday.  Once again, I’m at work early.  I like the calm and quiet of the mornings.  It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease.  I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s.  I had mostly early [...]

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March 20 is today’s date.  This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year).  There are 286 days remaining.  It’s the first day of Spring!  It’s also plenty of other things.  Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor - an [...]

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I do a lot of training, educating, troubleshooting, listening, brainstorming, teaching, helping, coaching and various other sorts of communicating.  I’m constantly trying to evaluate good ways to convey messages to others and to understand their messages to me.  When I’m doing it well, I’m trying to understand their messages first, and doing that objectively.
This post [...]

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Wow.  I used all caps in the subject.  Why?
From a geek’s perspective, the answer is DUH!
From the regular person’s perspective, maybe the commentary below will convince you.  There is No Free Lunch: Change your password NOW!  By Robert X. Cringely - - And, here’s the podcast/audio version, for those of you who don’t like to [...]

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I am in Fort Benning, GA.  This trip was a surprise.  Both Tim Getsch and I flew down today to surprise Terry.  We both could not be more proud!  Out of [UPDATE: approximately 230] 240, only 96 passed.  My youngest brother is one of them.
Terry, thank you for your service and your example.  You are [...]

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3.5 million miles.  174 trips.
So what?  I’ll tell you what!  Read on…
Sometimes things happen that make us very proud to be associated with certain people or organizations.  This past weekend was extended because we have a national holiday, Memorial Day.  That day is set aside to commemorate those who have given their lives in service to [...]

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Right now I am very excited!  There are several things to say and many thanks to hand out.  If you helped me in any part of my Job Hunt, expect a personal thank you coming from me, very soon.  This image here (also the new header image on this site) is a statement of the [...]

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I write this knowing that I am currently in the middle of my JobHunt.  Well, actually, I’m hopefully very near the end of this one!  So, I decided to add this disclaimer here at the top of this post.  I don’t want this to look like I am addressing any specific previous employer of mine, [...]

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So, I was reading this post from OneNote Extensibility & More.  They have a great explanation of a “how to” in that post.  Now, keep reading here…
COME ON PEOPLE!  THIS IS NOT SIMPLE!
Please, please please, make stuff simple.  All innovators and designers and engineers and anyone related to new technology, please make it simple.
WHEN IT’S NOT SIMPLE, ADOPTION [...]

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I’m watching and listening to the RSA Conference 2007 Webcasts.  Right now there is a Panel Discussion called, The Cryptographers Panel.
Yes.  This is geeky.
One of the panelists  UPDATE3: Ron Rivest mentioned some of his passions and work regarding security in voting systems.  (Forgive me for not getting his name or other info here.  I’m pretty sure [...]

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Ideas are plentiful.  Approaches are many.  Actions are few.  How do we connect the dots?  How do we move from wise, critical thinking to action?
Have you ever heard of “Deficit Thinking” or witnessed what it does in your life?  Slow Leadership has a 3 part posting called, “What’s Stopping you?”  Later in my post here, I [...]

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Today is day 1 of 28 in “28 Days to Lose 15 Pounds, and Fund a Nonprofit“.  Stay tuned…

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Be Organized

Kathy Sierra often gets me to say, wow!  This recent post called, “Getting/Staying Organized: my Moleskine PDA” did it again.
At the end, she asked for comments and feedback.  But, I don’t want to distract from her post!  I will go on record to state that doing what she’s described in any sort of electronic format [...]

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