Skis / Toys / Fun

My spouse pointed me at an appliance product the other day that is pretty much a package of network probing tools (Qualys).  Their niche is having a product that probes a network of vulnerabilities before somebody else can exploit them.  Good idea, simple product, easy updates, etc. etc.   Makes total sense since many “technical” people [...]

It’s hard working at a startup and thinking about starting a startup.  I really brings home the idea of having a founding team, when your energy wanes there’s somebody there to remind you of the grindstone and the objective.  Otherwise you end up drifting off into introspection land.

Life is hard, don’t use your kids as an excuse.
It’s air conditioning season and I keep on finding people who say lame things like: “this new air conditioning system is for my ____” when in reality it’s an excuse to make your life easier.  Make life suck a bit more so you can enjoy it.
Think [...]

I like research!  Reminds me of my days at NASA…  Ok, it doesn’t help that I keep on seeing project that are planetary exploration (Google Earth, WorldWideTelescope) and have flashbacks to LOD determination and hierarchical rendering.   Plus, today’s computers can run circles around the Stellar computers of the time.
Notable things:
WorldWide Telescope, HydroSeek
It’s interesting to see [...]

That was pretty much my thoughts when two people who (as I now know) who work at Red Mango came walking towards me on the sidewalk.  That red is pretty much communist red — where’s Mao when you need him?

It’s an old reminder…  said many ways:

Swing for the fences
Go big or go home 
Can’t see the forest through the trees
etc.

All came from a short discussion last night about the state of the world.  Where we have spent lots of time fighting lots of little fires as opposed to working on a single agenda.  Thus [...]