Howard Zinn is the co-author, with Anthony Arnove, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States and recently posted After The War, an article well worth reading, on The Progressive (and quickly reposted elsewhere). Here’s a short excerpt: I don’t believe that our government will be able to do once more what it [...]
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Our average CEO is paid over 400 times the average employee salary (as compared with European companies that pay about 15 times the average employee’s salary). Our educational system has been tuned to a point where it turns out perfectly trained, niche-oriented graduates that know their profession — and waste no time on economic, political [...]
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I’m a bit behind on my blog-reading, but I have to put a link in to The Bait and Switch President, one of those rare blogs that is very hard to stop reading: We just finished listening to the President’s speech announcing his new strategy in Iraq. But, hard as we tried, we heard little [...]
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According to IGM, I can finally buy a new car. IGM reports that Telematics Research Group (TRG) estimates that 73 million cars worldwide will hook up to iPod, including 28 million cars in the US. I’m thinking a Volvo S80 would be nice (and I see it does indeed support the iPod).
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Wouldn’t it be fun if we lived in a society where you could make up a new religion around, say, a great Spaghetti Monster that created the earth and us? And found a real church on the concept? And write a gospel about it, and maybe even raise a couple hundred thousand dollars so you [...]
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For a few years now I’ve been a strong advocate of JIRA and Confluence from Atlassian. These are two fabulous tools for task management, project tracking and collaboration. (We’re applying for an open source license for both of them, hopefully we’ll be using them for OCMS). JIRA is simply, hands-down the best task management system [...]
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It’s taken a mere two or three months longer than planned, but I’m finally ready to update the Boss Logic web site and officially announce our Open Content Management System (OCMS). Seemingly simple tasks — such as putting together a few web pages or selecting the appropriate open source license — have proven to absorb [...]
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A little while ago I started a topic on “Why smart people defend bad ideas.” After some of my recent work touched closely on similar topics I felt the urge to put down ink and revisit the whole subject in more depth. Scott Berkun brings up some good points that are all too often at [...]
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IBM recently lent considerable high-profile backing to ODF (the Open Document Format), announcing that it’s Workplace Managed Client, a thin-client alternative to Microsoft Office, will support ODF in version 2.6 next year. IBM’s product joins a growing swell of other products supporting ODF, including offerings from OpenOffice.org and Sun Microsystems. Personally, I’ve had to deal [...]
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Early in the decade, right around 2000 through 2002, I witnessed such an incredible increase in overseas outsourcing of technology work that our economy seemed doomed to suffer fallout — and to be sure, reckless ventures that attempted to wholesale outsource entire projects suffered many a demise as the technology bubble “burst.” This was a [...]
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Merlin is a superb name for this Microsoft Project compatible — yet so much better — product. Imagine taking the core features most often relied upon in project management; then, wrap it up in a gorgeous, intuitive user interface. Provide integration to other excellent applications such as NovaMind, so that you can visualize your project [...]
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Mac OS/X users (such as myself) are naturally about 50% happier than users of other operating systems… but working in a purely Microsoft environment still poses a few issues. Integration with Microsoft Exchange server is, fortunately, no longer a terribly big hurdle thanks to the folks at Snerdware. Their groupcal and AddressX products provide Exchange [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
