May 2007 - Posts
Emerson on Wakeboarding
After a long winter of anticipation, my fourteen-year old daughter started the summer season of wakeboarding. She ended last summer a strong beginner, still shaky and tentative across the wake. But this weekend, she surprised everyone with her one-handed
05/29/2007
Shouting in the Dark
Last weekend a Seattle area man was jogging in the Cougar Mountain Park, a network of 52 trails that wind around some pretty dense Northwest terrian. He left his house at 7:00 am and drove to the trailhead. His wife called police at 11:00pm that night
05/25/2007
The Six Billion Dollar Deal
It's not news that Microsoft purchased aQuantive, a digital marketing and advertising firm, for an unprecedented $6 billion dollars. But what is less well-known are the humble beginnings of aQuantive. It's one of those inspiring stories that keeps entrepreuners
05/21/2007
More Power to the People
What I love about these new web-based pieces of software is that the competition goes up and the price comes down. Now for a subscription rate, small to large firms can run business management software for a fraction of the cost of a custom-wide, enterprise-wide
05/18/2007
An Erotic Experience
I don't know about you, but most of my Microsoft Office tools have a boatload of features I never use. I guess that wouldn't matter much if the nasty features didn't clutter up and confuse the functions I use everyday. I suppose that's one of the reasons
05/16/2007
The Google Addiction
Since Google has become the verb synonymous with searching on the internet, it's often surprising to people that there are other search tools and perhaps some of them even better. I've written before about Cha-Cha, Jeff Bezos' recent foray into the field.
05/14/2007
Ubuntu
When you buy a new Dell, there is a surprising choice available. The open source Linux option is Ubuntu - and you can get it pre-installed in your new Dell. What makes Ubuntu popular is that can customize your interface and as an open source product -
05/11/2007
What To Do When the Web Is Smarter Than You
The time is coming when the web's capabilities will challenge us 'knowledge workers'. I've been recently fascinated by the work of Tim Berners-Lee , the father of the web language HTML and the current Director of the World Wide Web Consortium among other
05/9/2007
Fools Rising
The Economist published an obituary of the father of the MRI, Paul Lauterbur, who died this March. What makes the story of his life so inspiring is not just his glorious ability to invent, but the tenacity he had to evangelize his invention. He submitted
05/7/2007
A Math Lesson and More
OK. I’m embarrassed. Last night I had a brain freeze while helping with algebra homework. Solve for x: 49x 4 – 25x 2 = 0. I tried factoring it like a quadratic. No luck. I was in a rush so I decided to turn to tutor.com just to get unstuck. This is an
05/3/2007
Managing Bozo
Last night I spoke at a local Rotary Club about my model for creative thinking, The Five Faces of Genius. I told them someone once said to me that he didn't know what his face of genius was, but that his boss was one of the five faces of Bozo. I wonder
05/1/2007