March 3, 2010 | In: Project Management
As project managers, we are all very aware of the need to communicate to our project teams as well as our stakeholders. The basic formula for calculating possible communication channels is N(N-1)/2, where N is the number of stakeholders and/or project...
March 1, 2010 | In: Project Management
It still surprises me how often I see many organizations, large organizations, still managing their projects through the rear view mirror. Let's think about this analogy for a minute.Most of us understand the speed and efficiency we gain...
February 12, 2010 | In: Technology, twitter
Alan Lepofsky had a post where he played with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to come up with a Hierarchy of Tweets. He goes on to describe each of the levels in the hierarchy as it pertains to tweeters. Very humorous.I think my...
So, I was doing my pre-spring cleaning of the garage that I always do. This time the purpose was to get the car actually in the garage. In any case, I am a "holiday engineer", which basically means that I build things (typically dead and scary), along...
January 9, 2010 | In: Fun, Technology
I just stumbled across this today though it has been available since 2008. I have been enthralled with the game demo. Basically, the game comes with several levels of "playgrounds". In the playgrounds, you have an objects (usually a ball) that you...
January 7, 2010 | In: Microsoft, Technology, Windows
Over the last week or so, I have been seeing a number of posts (Twitter, Facebook, blogs) talking about gaining access to hidden features in Windows 7 that has been termed "God Mode". Some have even called it "Super Admin" mode. After seeing all of...
January 6, 2010 | In: Cloud, Privacy, Technology
ars technica has a great story about the FTC believing consumers don't have a clue about the privacy implications. While cloud storage is not a very new concept, the use of the cloud by consumers is picking up now that pricing for these services is...
January 5, 2010 | In: Business, Featured Articles, Strategy
Well, here it is, the second week of 2010 and I am finally getting around to posting my first entry of the year. One of my resolutions was to post much more frequently. For this entry, I am stepping away from my technical content and providing my...
December 7, 2009 | In: Technology
It has now been almost a month since I acquired my Kindle2 reader from Amazon. I wanted to take the opportunity to jot down some thoughts as well as a gotcha and a workaround that I came across. First, as I mentioned in a earlier post Amazon has a huge...
October 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Ok, so far we have created, modified, and added resources (memory, processor, disks, and network) to virtual machines. Now, we want to take that information and build a complete virtual machine. # Set up variables $VHD = "f:\VHDs\win2k8.vhd" $GuestVM =...
October 23, 2009 | In: Technology
AAAAHHHHHH! Just when I think I have decided on the right eBook reader for me, another one comes out with bigger and better features that made me revisit my earlier research. First, I looked through several readers, but it really came down to Sony's and...