I’m in the middle of what could best be described as multi-media coding. I’m working or a JSR-168 portlet for WebSphere Portal. the portlet renders graphs and tables of statistics for a cluster of Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room servers. I’m using Workplace Dashboard Framework to create the portlet and Web Charts 3D to compose [...]

I have really settled into my home office more than I have in a long time. Years ago, long before telecommuting was even mentioned in the employee benefits of most companies, I had the opportunity to work from home about 80% for a whole summer. Some might argue that working from home in the summer [...]

I finally received my Griffin TuneCenterPro. If any of you have heard of this thing, you may recall it was *supposed* to ship in April/June of 2006 (not 2007) !
I foolishly pre-ordered. Usually, when you pre-order a product, the company notifies you when it is finally available. Griffin figured after a year of delays, most [...]

This evening’s USA news carried a positive sporty for once. You may have already heard about the TV show called “Britain’s Got Talent”. It’s a broader concept to American Idol. It even has Simon Cowell as one of the “judges” … better known as color commentary.
In the “audition round” Paul Potts sheepishly walks on stage [...]

Vowe.net posted a cool YouTube video a while back. I forwarded it to a musician friend of mine. He in turn, tracked down the artist and an album with the track on it. Moments later, it was downloading to my iPod. (iTunes is just too handy!)
I forgot about it after a few days. Shuffle [...]

The “one laptop per child” program has a laudable goal - to educate children - all children - everywhere. Think about that for a moment. What would this world be like if we have twice as many environmental scientists, teachers, geneticists, engineers, researchers, etc. ? Education is one of the keys to unlocking this potential. [...]

I had two astoundingly vivid dreams last night …. no, it was not something I smoked ….
I dreamed that a cultish popular musician from the 1970’s had gone completely unknown for so long that he auditioned for American Idol and got selected. Over the course of eliminations we talked often but I never [...]