Let’s face it, when you go to a buffet you can over eat – as a matter of fact you’re encouraged to! Just take a look at this sign from a local buffet (one I just overate at) reminding you to “Keep eating, There’s WAY more where that came from“.  The waitress was no help, [...]

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Trying out the “all in one video tool” from Kaltura to see how easy it would be to embed in IBM Connections. Wow, even let me record from webcam… Dangerous. Now here is a video from searching/inserting:

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The Connections “next” features were some of the most interesting announcements: Activity Streams & Open social support. Redesigned homepage. embedded experiences. OAUTH2 support. New mobile tools in major appstores, very nice stuff. Superior integration with Microsoft assets. New tool called IBM docs will allow Google wave style editing of office docs with Connections as the [...]

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Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos (one of Europe’s largest information technology services companies), is going to ban his staff from sending each other emails. He said it’s a waste of time and outdated form of communication. Apparently he wants this new  “zero email” policy to be in place within as early as 18 months! He [...]

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In 2003 I found myself in the job market (not by choice) and rethinking my career options. I decided to take my passion for coffee up a notch and learn about roasting, espresso preparation, and small retail business. At the end of the day I decided to stay an IT guy, but I became significantly [...]

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I’ve been on a journey to migrate my “stuff” to digital – and most recently to the cloud. My last holdout was the trusted journal/notebook. I think I’ve turned the corner here and will share story from my new iPad notebook (forgive the handwriting, it’s never been my strength). If you’ve been considering the same [...]

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What happens when Americano meets soda? Americola of course. I invented the name, I don’t think anyone else is dumb enough to try this – or at least admit they did. My idea was that if iced coffee is great, carbonation could only make it better! I started with 4 shots of espresso, iced it, [...]

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For Christmas my wife got me a “coffee gift” as she likes to call them. I’ve been wanting to play with a vacuum or “syphon” pot for years but my collection of brewing and roasting equipment (and supplies) has been “sufficient” (well probably). Hobbyists never can never have enough right? There are quite a few [...]

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Yet another nifty thing for small websites from Google. Web Elements let you magically weave in content to your site with carefully crafted iframed widgets. I’ve used the search/news widget on several sites and it works great! Anywhere you can embed some HTML you can use these widget. Read More and Try it out

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Not really. I get an average of five election phone calls a day and over half a dozen letters in the mail (nice big color ones). Most all of them are negative, but I’ve learned a new trick to figure out what people are for based on the bashing. One fiscal conservative I plan to [...]

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