Category Archives: Business Strategy

Intuit is Lame

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a long time Quicken user, but I’m a Mac user and its fairly frustrating dealing with the differences between their Mac and Windows versions. Unfortunately, my accountant is a Windows user, so every time I … Continue reading

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Web Standards — Aren't they a given now?

It is hockey season now and so I’ve been paying attention to the local team and all things surrounding it.  So today I noticed that Mike Modano has relaunched his site.  Well, Mike has been one of my favorite players … Continue reading

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Circling Back

People have asked me quite a lot lately what I’m going to do now that I’m free and clear of Click Here and my pat answer has been one of two or three things: Find a product-oriented company with a … Continue reading

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Follow the process?

I have been making my living for the last 20+ years following processes.  Unfortunately, I have not seen that processes have been maintained, evaluated, and evolved as they should be.  My theory is this: no one collects any metrics anymore, … Continue reading

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Just One Domain Name?

Anyone tried to get a good domain name lately?  If you have, its likely you’ve been frustrated with the options that you have left.  Of course, that is the case only if you wish to have a domain name that … Continue reading

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Think Weeks Approaches

I read somewhere that Bill Gates retreats for a few weeks to read whitepapers and books in order to strategize for the future.  I know there are fewer Bill Gates fans out there these days, but idea has definite merit.  … Continue reading

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Job Seeking 2.0

As many of you know, I’m looking for employment now while my Nokia days come to an end. I thought I would post some thoughts on how you find a job in the current job market. Nevermind that I don’t … Continue reading

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What's your Tech Stack?

I have been assigned a “little buddy” at work to become my replacement — do you think they know something?  This is the first move toward redundancy in quite some time, so maybe so. Anyway, so I started asking some … Continue reading

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Why IT Sucks

Just to be clear, IT in this context means being in an IT department, not being in the IT industry. I’ve spent a combined five years in IT departments of two companies — one a large company another a small … Continue reading

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Don't Play for the Texas Rangers

No, this isn’t a sports-related post on my professional blog.  Well, okay, maybe it is sort of.  Its just that sports analogies come easy to me since sports is one of my passions. While the above post title refers to … Continue reading

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