Monthly Archive: June 2006

So, Apparently, Teamwork is Counterproductive…

So, Apparently, Teamwork is Counterproductive…

Teamwork is not easy.  It never is.  Whether it’s basketball, football, sales, construction, or software, it’s difficult to instill a sense of team and ensure that everyone operates as a member of a team. There are individual egos to deal...

Late Night Ramblings

Late Night Ramblings

About a week ago, I caught a documentary on the House of Saud on PBS (in HD, too!). It was a riveting program that helped shed a lot of light onto historical relationships between Saudi Arabia and the US.  It...

Say Hi to Quincy

Say Hi to Quincy

That’s Quincy, our new bearded dragon. Interesting little critter…quite aware of us and of the surroundings; extremely inquisitive and quite cute 🙂 But also quite a pain in the ass to take care of.

Fear of Change

Fear of Change

Perhaps one of the most dangerous fears of Man is the fear of change. It is a fear of the new and a desire to remain close to “the old ways”. This occurs on a macro and micro level. On...

Sad State of Manufacturing in America

Sad State of Manufacturing in America

Over at engadget, a headline caught my eye today: “Chinese workers reportedly toil in the ‘iPod City’“. It’s certainly nothing that we haven’t heard before, overseas labor is so cheap these days, who can compete with American labor and just...

Pure Genious

Pure Genious

Pure Genious: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3155 Brilliantly simple and intuitive. I’m a firm believer that the simplest, most obvious ideas are the ones that require the most ingenuity to come up with.

Random DevTools Entry: #011

Random DevTools Entry: #011

Web development in IE just got a whole lot better (well, at least for me). Enter Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (link). This is one area where IE has been just left behind in the dust by FireFox.  But this...