You know, it shouldn’t surprise a person but I guess it did me. As any busy family, we don’t spend enough time together, and when you do, you realize just how fun it really is.
Brianna and I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening yesterday just doing fun stuff. We went to the park, baked some pastries and a pie, and just had time to talk. She got to run around and have a picnic, then later help make dinner (stir fry, a favorite of her’s).
It was one of the most enjoyable afternoons I’ve had in years. This is what we toil for, this is what family life used to be every day – not just a rare outtake of life. When I take a step back and look at it, I can’t believe we’ve allowed other entities (work) to overtake simple life experiences. It’s a shame, and something I vowed to myself today to change. Radically.
The time passes by too quickly to be taken up by stressful environments of which one can not change.
Ars Technica does some quick analysis on the upcoming Office Communications Server 2007 that will bring IM, Email, web conference, and voice into one server platform. Interesting how this may impact the incumbent players in the market as Microsoft is not
Dennis Rice gives his thoughts on the pros and cons of the Tablet PC genre at this point in time. His analysis supplies some suggestions for manufacturers and provides some tips for users of Tablet PCs. Good read.
I just couldn’t stand it any longer, winter is receding quickly and warm weather is flooding into Minnesota. We’ve lost almost all our snow cover and, personally, I can’t wait for spring to come into full bloom. So with that notion, I’ve updated the blog header with my selection for April a little early. I hope to get a few good ones from my Connections Conference in Florida next month.
I’ve just created my first WordPress sidebar widget!
Thank you! thank you!
Seriously, I really just figured out how to create a wrapper for Alex King’sTwitter Tools WordPress Plugin, and one of Twitter’s JavaScript Badges. The plugin is built into my current theme; the net result is displayed on the sidebar, right below my “About” information.
Now this has little to do about being an email client, which is something I think will disappear in the coming years, but really about a big development in communications tools for productivity workers. Yes Microsoft is at it again, playing its hand at convergence, and positioning itself to again enter and then dominate a market.
While the established incumbents (Avaya, Cisco, Nortel, Siemens, etc…) have little to fear in the short term from Microsoft. The long term, on the other hand, is where Microsoft traditionally kicks ass. The advantage that the current situation presents for the existing vendors is that they have Microsoft’s playbook to learn from and adapt to, long before Microsoft’s product matures and penetrates the market to the point where they are no longer relevant. To do this, Microsoft has to have missed important features in the product, has stability problems out of the gate, does not scale well, and so on. Further, current vendors also need to take their existing products and cut costs, trim the need for hardwired phones, promote the utility of softphones, and demonstrate QoS on their system over Microsoft’s.
If the current vendors don’t change and adapt to the Microsoft “threat”, they’ll follow the same trend as other software and service markets Microsoft has entered. Microsoft dominates a market because it brings “good enough” functionality to large numbers of customers, at very competitive pricing.
No matter what, this is an important move by Microsoft, and will bring the competition to the IP Telephony market that it has long been missing. Innovation by all parties should follow with better products at better price points. The integration of VoIP (along with IM and Web Conferencing) into the Office System family products will bring another level of productivity and efficiency to productivity workers.
This article is exactly what I’ve been thinking is going to happen this year. The growth market is the low to mid-range business. There is an opportunity for consulting in this area of the industry since it’s been ignored for so long by the big companie
Barts PE Builder helps you build a BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
Every American should ask all politicians running for office one simple question: Would you support a nationwide ban on Sharia Law? Their answer will tell you everything you need to know when you hit the voting booth.
I asked @KenPaxtonTX and he responded: “Absolutely. It’s
Today, Democrat candidates for governor are calling for mass amnesty, ending immigration enforcement, and turning Wisconsin into a sanctuary state, where criminal illegal aliens are released back into Wisconsin.
