I Just Hung Up
“I just couldn’t believe it!” Ross was practically beside himself as he recounted the story, “Here we are, their customer, having spent thousands with them, and they were acting like it was all our fault that we were getting nothing from the system!” “And what about all the challenges you were having with it?” I asked. “That was our fault, too. We apparently...
February 21st, 2009 by ssh
Transformation Through Celebration
Yesterday I was here in Colorado and got to spend the morning with my son Gabriel at his Upward basketball game. Gabe is 7, and in his second year of organized basketball, and yesterday I got a great opportunity to see how much he has learned. And not just about basketball. Yes, I’m proud of him for his play on the court (2 steals, both leading to breakaway scores, 4 other buckets, and solid...
February 8th, 2009 by ssh
Who Makes You Scared?
Yesterday afternoon I sat at the kitchen table with my wife Terry for our daily ritual of afternoon tea. Whenever we can, we slow down for a few minutes, brew a pot of strong English tea, and sit and catch up for a few minutes. Tea is wonderful that way; you can’t hurry the brewing of a good pot of tea. As we drink a strong cup of PG Tips, we talk. I like to hear what she’s thinking and...
February 6th, 2009 by ssh
Puttin’ on My Geek Hat
On Friday, I sat in my office delighted to have a new external hard drive to store all of my large data files. I had ordered it from Amazon, and took its picture right after I unpacked it. Cavalry CADA-SA4 4-disk external RAID drive It’s a pretty drive, and I was looking forward to having both the extra space and the protection against failure of a drive. There are a number of ways to protect...
February 5th, 2009 by ssh
Life Would be Pretty Good…
I’ve been here in my office a lot the past few days working on a web site transition for one of my clients and getting my hands a little dirtier than usual tearing apart a hard drive that decided to go bad. I posted a few photos of the hard drive as I tore it apart to both Twitter and Facebook and made a few comments. It was very interesting the number of people who got caught up in my tearing...
February 4th, 2009 by ssh
