QT: Location and the Virtual

July 29, 2009

As I look at new applications, services and games I see that more and more of them are using physical location as part of the information used. While the virtual can give one the opportunity to have an experience independent of any real world location, there is also an appeal to seeing where people are [...]

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Thoughts on Celebrity Deaths

June 25, 2009

Or…when 140 characters are not enough. (This is in part the more than 140 character response to a friend’s tweet.) I have been watching the reactions of people to today’s news of Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s deaths. Many people were touched by these deaths and posted about memories, and many posted about their feeling [...]

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SXSW Sounds

March 19, 2009

I got back from SXSW last night. What an amazing experience. It was awesome meeting so many people. I wish I had had more time to spend with everyone and that I had caught up with a few more people but I am so thankful for the conversations I was able to have. The sessions [...]

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SXSW Bound

March 10, 2009

Purim has come and gone and the remaining exciting event for the week is the start of SXSW. Last year I was very bummed to miss SXSW and started planning towards making it this year. Reservations are made, plans for the pets are made, and a general (and flexible) plan has been made. I’m not [...]

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The Value of Physical Labor

March 8, 2009

I pretty regularly watch the TED videos. Today I watched a talk given by Mike Rowe who does the Dirty Jobs tv show. In it he gives some interesting insight on dirty jobs and questioning if “Pursing your passion” is the right answer. In a sense his talk was the counter-point to the Four Hour [...]

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Dust is Beginning to Settle

March 1, 2009

Well I was quite pleased to find out that I could easily import all of my blogposts from blogspot with the comments. There is a little import tab in the administrative interface and it just works. One of the reasons I was considering the switch over to a self hosted wordpress blog was so that [...]

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Please pardon our technical difficulties

February 21, 2009

Apparently when moving my domain name “preserve dns settings” didn’t mean what I thought.  Since things neede to be reset anyways, I figured now was a good time to move over to wordpress.  The previous content (and new content and theme) will be up over the next few days.  I appologize for the disappearance and [...]

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Tangible and Virtual

February 11, 2009

Just ended a three day training session for work. Not for my usual sort of job but a more “get your hands dirty” kind of job. It was a really fun, class. Most of the students were desk workers like me, but there were two guys who were the supervisors for the type of job [...]

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The Father of the Rothschilds

January 25, 2009

This week we read a story about Maier Amschel Rothschild – the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. This story is taken from volume 4 of The Storyteller by Nissan Mindel

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Waking Up Angry

January 12, 2009

Ed: What follows are some personal thoughts, but I thought that perhaps my lessons learned would help someone else Today I woke up angry, and that’s good. I was angry at me for forgetting who I am and what my strengths are. Sometimes something is hard because you are making a big difference and changing [...]

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