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In: Life
12 May 2006I fly to London on the red-eye, leaving Boston at 21:00 EDT. I land at Heathrow at about 08:30 BST, which means that if I time my sleep right, I should not even notice the jet lag.
Looks like a rainy weekend in the city, but I do plan to get out and see a few [...]
In: Life
24 Mar 2006I have been sitting at Gate 86 at SFO watching a little drama that gets played out thousands of times a day around the world. I call it the Hierarchy of Assumed Privilege.
The direct flight from SFO to Boston (the one I am not on) was full; nay, bursting.
Yet there were executive-types who were ANGRY [...]
We have been in the Boston area for 2.5 years. In that time, Samantha and the boys have not been home.
Frankly, the whole process of leaving the US and then getting back in scares the hell out of us. US immigration always goes out of their way to make us feel unwelcome.
But Samantha told me [...]
In: Life
31 Oct 2005A very insightful article on the clustering of wealth and innovation around the world, riffing on a theme by Friedman. [here]
I firmly believe this concept. I have lived three cluster areas — Vancouver-Victoria, BC; San Francisco – San Jose Metro; Boston Metro — and the level of innovation and original thinking here is unparalleled. When [...]
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
In: smp
1 Oct 2005I went to David Allen’s GTD Roadmap seminar here in Boston yesterday. Frankly, it was the best 10 hours of my life in a very long time. Great speaker, re-affirming content, and amazing folks in attendance.
Kudos to the David Allen team for putting together a great day!
You should see my list of Next Actions.
In: smp
29 Sep 2005I will be attending the David Allen GTD Roadmap session in Boston tomorrow (September 30, 2005).
Hope to see many Boston GTD freaks there. Should be fun.
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21 May 2005If you thought this was bad, SAP strives to exceed its previous level of obsfucation.
Nicholas Carr quotes from the transcripts at the Boston SAP Sapphire conference.
Let’s look through this thing. Remember we had the fridge. We decided to retire the fridge. We’re going to talk about a new metaphor from now on. What is NetWeaver [...]
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2 Feb 2005What does “Synergized” mean? It is a term you her a lot in the Merger game; it effectively means we are going to fire a whole bunch of you.
I received an e-mail at 1:43PM EST, February 2, 2005 for an event. I will provide the time and place, but not the name.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
11:00 [...]
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1 Feb 2005These are likely to be the only two years since its presentation to the people of Canada that the Stanley Cup will not be presented to the best team in hockey.
The Free Stanley group is seeking to change that by restoring the prestige of the cup, and presenting it to the best hockey team playing [...]