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As with any startup, you never get the time to do the little things. I've been with Abaca Technology as their Director of Engineering for more than six months…

Every piece I've published — 236 essays, field notes, and dispatches.
As with any startup, you never get the time to do the little things. I've been with Abaca Technology as their Director of Engineering for more than six months…

A number of my old team members from the Mercury Diagnostics product line, which was eventually folded into HP Software went off and founded Apptio. They…

It seems the Apple store is down for what I'm assuming to be updates that will come out of the WWDC announcement this morning. I'm no crazy Apple fanatic but…

Ok, so I admit that I didn't really understand Twitter when it came out. It seemed pretty dumb. Well, after playing around with it for the past two weeks,…

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 starts tomorrow and the freak Apple fans are running up the rumors about the 3G iPhone, iPhone embedded GPS.…

I received this email/text message from my CNN Breaking News Alert @ 3:15am this morning. Seriously, they woke someone up at 3:15am to send this? In…

Today, I spent time setting up the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that my father bought as part of the "Buy a Laptop for Child and Get a Laptop Free" program…

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I'm not a huge Twitter fan but have been playing around with their SMS/Twitter/Facebook integration which is pretty cool. I guess all of the blogs about how…

The price of oil per oarrel have reached record levels. Last Friday, the Nymex Crude Future hit $118.52 a barrel. The prices at the pump are acting…

It's been over five months since leaving HP and re-joining the ranks of the startups and it has been quite the shift in experiences. The startup experience is…

This past weekend I was playing golf with some random folks and one of them asked me what I did. I had to think about that for a moment because spewing out…

A friend of mine at work and and I were chatting this morning about the classic problem of discovering new music. Low and behold, Web 2.0 to the rescue!…

Alas, I finally got my beta login into Twine. I can't wait to give it a whirl. Let's see what the so called "Web 3.0" has in store for us.

I pretty sure that TechCrunch snagged my screenshot of the "HP Upline is down".

Someone get the new CEO a carrot for recognizing the obvious. What the hell were they thinking when they bought Skype in the first place?

Ever since I took over Support responsibilities at my software startup, I've been thinking a lot about what makes for good customer service and support.

On Thursday, April 17th, HP suspended operation of the HP Upline Service. We fully anticipate that suspension of the Upline Service will be temporary and…

I recently jumped on the online storage band wagon and signed up for HP Upline. My thought process was that "it's HP, I can trust these guys". Plus, I could…

This week's top Digg item is a story called Google Drive Killer Coming From MIT features a start up out of MIT called Dropbox. Basically, it provides a way to…
