Late to the party, I spent some time with a hot glue gun for the first time this weekend.  Here's the output.  Truly a work of Ert, if I do say so myself!


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Oracle Buys Endeca.  'nuff said.

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So, for the last few weeks I've been anticipating a repeat registrant early-bird invite to Google I/O 2011, just like Google sent out last year for Google I/O 2010, and presumably also in 2009 (I didn't go to 2008). Nothing ever materialized in my email, however, and every time I checked the web site it said "general registration opens soon" and if ( Read more... )

As we do early in every year, my wife and I (and anyone else we can convince) will cleanse out our systems by eating uncompromisingly healthfully 24×7 for two weeks, give-or-take.

Our diet pretty much becomes vegetables, tofu, fish and whole grains, with an absolute ban on refined sugars, alcohol, caffeine (except green tea), dairy products, wheat ( Read more... )

"I like my coffee crisp"
Day three of my Autumn '10 dietary cleanse and my thoughtful coworker has brought in a bunch of awesome chocolate bars from the homeland to tempt me. Have retreated to a training room with a mug of green tea and an apple. I suspect by the time I emerge my other coworkers will have consumed the problem treats.
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As we do every harvest season, my wife and I (and anyone else we can convince) will cleanse out our systems by eating uncompromisingly healthfully 24×7 for two weeks, give-or-take.

Our diet pretty much becomes vegetables, tofu, fish and whole grains, with an absolute ban on refined sugars, alcohol, caffeine (except green tea), dairy products, wheat ( Read more... )

So last night I decided that I would finally sit down and successfully borrow an eBook from my local library and read it on my iPhone.

I realized there would be some bumpiness in the process, but noted that having a book show up at my door via Amazon was more streamlined than getting a book from the local public library, but not overwhelmingly so.   ( Read more... )

After a good while doing part sabbatical and part working on commercializing my own ideas the time has come for a change.  I've just signed on with Endeca, starting full time in the middle of August!

So, Endeca.  The short version of Endeca is "search software."  The longer version is they have a high performance data storage engine that makes it ( Read more... )

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