Let’s take a time out from business and technology. Eric Clapton was at the HP Pavilion this past Sunday and what an amazing show. It’s was a evening of hot chops and cool blues. The setlist was the following (Thank you Where’s Eric): 01. Tell The Truth 02. Key To The Highway 03. Got to Read more

In this month’s Business 2.0, there is an article about an innovative new company tackling the age old problem to folks that dye their hair. Betty Beauty is introducing the first safe color specially formulated for the hair down there. The articles describes how the co-founder thought of the idea while observing patrons of a Read more

It was announced today that Microsoft will aquire TellMe networks. Most interestingly, I have read that it could fetch 800+ million dollars which would represent the 4th largest acquisition in the history of Microsoft. Whoa! Microsoft is busting into the voice platform business in a big way. I remember playing with the technology back in Read more

I recently discovered the the New York Times Reader while listening to Leo Laporte’s podcast on my drive home from work. It’s a very cool newspaper reader built on Windows Presentation Foundation. Surprisingly, the user experience is terrific and made me think that I could actually read a newspaper online. Since its built on the Read more

This afternoon I was having an exit interview with an engineer on my team leaving the company. He is a very talented engineer and I’m very disappointed to see him go. Now, during the meeting my phone fell out of my pants and I heard my wife’s voice on the other line. I seriously thought Read more

The other day I was having lunch with a few friends of mine and stumbled upon an interesting conversation. One person had mentioned that every Thursday night he gets together with several other VP and Directory level software engineering managers to play World of Warcraft. Amazingly, he also says that he has connected with other Read more

Well, it’s finally happened. I’m throwing my hat into the ring and starting a blog. If you asked me six months ago, I would have laughed at you and said “Blogs are dumb and why would I add to already full internet! There’s no room!” I’m not sure what happened but I found myself reading Read more

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