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Continue reading →: Can I pay at Starbucks with my watch?
Yes. I won’t bury the lede. Here’s the short video using my Pebble watch: I bought my Pebble watch on Kickstarter. The Pebble watches have come a LONG way since that first Kickstarter batch. Perhaps the most significant development was the release of the version 2 SDK which is what…
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Continue reading →: Working remotely: Ugly/Bad/Good
The last thirty days has given us a lot of snow (at least by Virginia standards) and higher-than-usual incidence of colds/flus/sick colleagues. Between the snow, ice, and sick days we’ve had a lot of remote working days. The concentration of these remote work days in the last month percolated up…
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Continue reading →: Minimum Viable Software
I work at Zope/Zebrareach/Reac.ht – we make software. We’re always trying out new ideas, tinkering with previous ideas and generally looking to innovate to improve our products and help our customers. We are also learning practitioners of the lean philosophy. Our latest product/experiment is called reac.ht: With reac.ht we intend…
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Continue reading →: $99, 3-day mini-MBA (but that’s not all!)
Stop… Go If you, your colleagues and your organization at-large make excellent, almost-never-bad decisions stop reading here!!! Do NOT click through to the rest of this post. You don’t need it. If, on the other hand, you, your colleagues and/or your organization could stand to improve decision making you might…
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Continue reading →: Sequestration lemonade
Good things CAN come from the 2013 budget sequestration. Last Tuesday night (March 26, 2013), Bill Blevins and I attended the first meeting of FredX (organized by Matt Armstrong and Christine Goodwin (@cag123) – thanks guys!). From the FredX Facebook page: FredX is a platform for entrepreneurs and thought leaders to…
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Continue reading →: Best golf course in America
My sister (an avid and skilled golfer) sent me a link to the best golf course in America. American Lake Veteran’s Golf Course is a golf course dedicated to our military veterans.
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Continue reading →: No title big enough
This is not a new video but worth sharing nonetheless. Dick Hoyt makes me want to be a better man.
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Continue reading →: HUGE step forward for digital literacy
It’s no secret that the leverage available to information technology innovators is HUGE. I can’t think of another human endeavor that, with the investment in an Amazon EC2 node or two and a few weekends of software development, can change the lives of people around the world. If you need…
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Continue reading →: Sportsmanship DEFINED
After all the press about Ndamukong Suh and his stomping and kicking and Lance Armstrong and his antics, it’s moving to see proper sportsmanship being cultivated and demonstrated. In El Paso, Texas Coach Peter Morales of the Coronado High School Thunderbirds was willing to lose a game in order that his team…
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