Tweblog - Toby Getsch

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My heart is in Myanmar - SharePoint for Disasters
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Intro
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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Maybe I’m not in beta anymore.  Hehehe…

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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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OK, I’m on MySpace and it’s kinda fun.  I’m up there for the fun stuff.  Isn’t that what a 35 year old bachelor is supposed to do… ‘n shit.  (I’m pretty sure that’s the second time I’ve actually ”cussed” on my blog.  Isn’t it fun.)  I’ve got plenty of other more mature and more detailed info online.  A guy’s [...]

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I recently took a break from blogging (both writing and reading).  To put this into perspective, I follow about 160 blogs.  About half of those are very much work related.  I was probably spending about an hour per day reading and maybe another hour per day writing my own blog posts or responding to others.
(If anyone is paranoid [...]

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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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This morning I’m spending time alone, sitting by the water, relaxing.  I already went for a little bit of a drive.  Yesterday I spent a bit of time cleaning and mentally refreshing.
What am I talking about?  I’m talking about when you feel like you just woke up from a nap on the weekend, in the [...]

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[See a lengthy disclosure at the end of this post.]
 
Hey, my brother and sister-in-law and future brother-in-law are working smart (and hard) on some new, cool technology.  They recently launched a new site.  And, they have a blog!!!

CheckOutMyCards.com is the new site.  And, from the CheckOutMyCards.com Blog, Tim Getsch writes: A new day for baseball card collectors - [...]

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This morning, during my bus ride to work, several passengers were smirking and pretending not to listen to the cell pone conversation of a younger person and his friend.  This boy was about 13 or 14 years old.  Cell phones and text messaging are a normal part of his life.  “No, dude!  I send hella-text [...]

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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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autodidactism
I think that is my new favorite word.
Now, I just have to learn how to pronounce it. 
Here is a massive resource list for all autodidacts.
I think I’d like to be a Professional Autodidact.
Seriously, I think I would like that a lot.
This mini-list should help get me started.
Sites Offering Free Courses
Berkeley Webcasts
MIT Courses
MIT Courses [...]

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To: Trent @ The Simple DollarRe: Ten Books That Changed My Life #3: Mere Christianity
Thank you for the good book reference. It’s been a while since I read that, probably 10 years or more. I think I’ll dust it off and give it another read. And, thank you for sharing some of your testimony.
FYI, [...]

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