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 Inconsideration of Realtors - 7/9/2008
As you may know, we've had our condo on the market for a couple months. During that time, I think we've either been exposed to the rudest real estate agents in the region or been given a glimpse at the sad state of agents in today's market.

We're in an unfortunately unique situation where we cannot grant agents access to our building. Whene...

 Dead Sea Effect - 7/2/2008
I read an interesting article about what the author coins the Dead Sea effect. In the article, Bruce Webster suggests one reason why it's so difficult for IT organizations to acquire and retain qualified staff:

The Dead Sea, of course, is a large body of water between Israel and Jordan [...]. The Jordan River empties into it; water leaves o...

 Meeting Efficacy - 7/1/2008
After years working for private and public sector clients, I've learned something about the efficacy of all meetings. The productivity of any meeting is inversely proportional to the number of times the phrase "work smarter, not harder" is shown on a slide during said meeting. If you happen to get advance copies of a slide deck and see that...

 The Day the Internet Died (for me) - 6/4/2008
It was late one evening and I was downloading a Microsoft service pack for Windows 2000. (This was back before the auto-update things did this all for you...) The 50+MB download was progressing steadily, albeit slowly, so I decided to head to bed and install it the following morning.

Upon waking up the next day, I return to the computer, flic...

 More Pictures - 5/26/2008
I know it's been a while -- sorry about that! We're so busy having fun and watching Ricky grow, that the website has sort-of fallen by the wayside. There have been a couple of fun milestones recently, though.

First of all, last Wednesday (May 21st), Ricky laughed! Granted, there wasn't anything particularly comical happening, but seeing him sm...

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