I can’t seem to find the version I remember my wife reading me sometime back, so I’m going to work from memory on this one… Here is a link to a slightly different version. A couple was travelling from one village to the next when they came upon a farmer working in his field. They […]
Archive for the ‘Values’ Category
Drive
A friend recently recommended a book to me called “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel Pink. I’m glad I read it. There was much about the book that resonated with me. While I believe that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs explains the underlying principles for much of what is presented in the […]
Passion for Software
Headline: It’s been almost 20 years since I really dedicated myself to software development. I’m glad I did. I left the search for oil and gas in 1990 to join Landmark Graphics to help develop software. One year later I realized that I could not continue both my role as a Company Commander in the […]
What I did on my winter vacation…
Sunday, Jan 30th, 2011 by Karl | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology, Travel, Unusual, Values | Tags: .NET 4.0, Microsoft
Filed under: Technology, Travel, Unusual, Values | Tags: .NET 4.0, Microsoft
Headline: I passed my Microsoft Certified Professional Developer exams using my vacation time and my personal funds to pay for the course. I’ll talk about several different areas that might be of interest to other as well as “journal” about why some of this happened. What was I thinking? (Or – Why I Did It) […]
Getting It Right the First Time
Just finished many hours of reading about .NET changes for 4.0… I was getting a bit tired and needed a change of pace, so I was listening to some music. As luck would have it, I heard two songs that were basically first takes. They were Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez and Wake Up […]
IM–The New Caller ID
Headline: I’ve pretty much reached the point that if you want to call me, you had better IM (Instant Message) me first. I’m almost always online these days… and if I’m not, then I’m probably not in a position to talk on the phone. I’ve notice that increasingly phone calls are made immediately after IM’ing […]
…and the Agony of the Cheap
The Joy of Excellence, and the Agony of the Cheap Yes, this is a play on the old ABC Wide World of Sports slogan, “The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” I probably should have used “The thrill of quality, and the agony of the cheap.” but my site isn’t called “ThrillOfQuality”. The […]
A Body At Rest… Newton’s First Law of Motion…
“A body at rest remains at rest. A body in motion remains in motion.” I saw a great advertisement tonight about health. It was pointing to the fact that a “body at rest” (someone with a sedentary lifestyle) tends to keep that lifestyle, while “A body in motion” (someone with an active lifestyle) tends to […]
What fun–Feynman Videos
Project Tuva, from Microsoft Research has some Richard Feynman videos. Anyone that knows me knows that one of my favorite books is “Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman – Adventures of a Curious Character”. And in reading “Pro Silverlight 4 in C#” by Matthew MacDonald he pointed to a site that had some interesting Silverlight applications. […]
eDriver’s Ed–Is it time?
Should our schools now be required to teach about driving safety on the internet superhighway? The idea of teaching internet safety to our children is not new. And, after years of working on the internet I’ve discovered that I’ve never had an original thought… just “original to me”… So I’m sure this is elsewhere… But […]