Lamar Lobo! Middle School Ultimate 2007

Last weekend we wrapped up the 2007 middle school ultimate season with a day long tournament. 5 schools, 6 teams…middle school ultimate is on it’s way up in Austin. We had a great team. 18 of the 19 kids made it out for the tournament. We played 2 pool play games, and one cross over game. We won all 3 pool games, one our quarter final game, and ended up playing Kealing in the semi-finals. We ended up loosing that game, but the story was the season….

Thoughts on Silverlight…

On Monday, MS released a new component of their .NET web platform, Silverlight. The rich presentation framework is available on both the Mac and PC platform. How does this fit in the overall web platform architecture picture? Here are a few thoughts and links…

Link blog 3/25/07 – Date entry UI

Several Links about date entry and simple UI’s

Reading List

	Thinking for a Living by Thomas H. DavenportAs the world moved from the industrial age to the information age, how people work, learn and interact has changed as well. You can’t write a simple procedure or script to get the work products needed to succeed. It doesn’t work for the individual or the leader. Successful management of information and collaboration have become survival imperatives for today’s companies. In this book Mr. Davenport creates a simplistic taxonomy of knowledge workers based on the complexity of the work and the level of collaboration needed to get a job done and uses that as a framework to present ideas about how to interact and intervene with the folks that get it done: the knowledge worker. A couple of key take aways: 1) Leaders most think about and coach both individuals and teams about how to manage information and use it effectively in their day to day operations. 2) Knowledge networks are important. The most effective individuals were often the ones that had great working relations with people both within and outside their immediate organizational and company structure. 3) The web and applications such as wiki’s and RSS readers are great tools for integration learning and collaboration into busines process. We have to keep looking for ways to organize information and making it readily available to the knowledge workers. There’s good information in here you can use to help you look for and nurture great people, and understand some of the environmental issues surrounding creating an effective knowledge management culture.
	Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer with Juan J. PerezComing soon.

Marketing and social media: Where will we go from here?

I spent the day reading about marketing and the effects of social media on marketing and it lead me to thinking about what’s next…

These guys are good

This AM the boys were up with their friends making the next generation of mods to the fort. They decided that they each needed a title and a calling card. Each has a code name, a mission, a team an other vital sttats. A combination baseball card and a biz card if you will. Fire up the Mac and off they go. Wait…we want take pictures from Photo Booth on the other computer and use those. Dad how do we get the picture from Photo Booth to the other mac?….

Miracles of Modern Medicine

I am living testament to the wonders of modern medicine. The yesterday AM I could not straighten my leg. At 10 AM I was in surgery. I was up and walking without pain or crutches by 2.

GPS, Flickr and Google Earth

Yesterday we rode up to an old abandoned mine called Ida Belle. Bagger had the GPS tracking, and we took a few photo’s along the way. In the past my attempts to get GPS tracks on maps on the Mac have proven futile, but this time I succeeded. Here’s how I did it and what it looks like…

The AUS-OLF turn

On Monday May 8th I happened to get the phone number of a woman named Mary from a women an attorney had recommended to Missy and I about home health care a week earlier. The cascade of events since then has been somewhat miraculous.

Carrying on the tradition

The annual Old Settlers Music Festival was last weekend at the Salt Lick/Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, just south of Austin. Several years ago I have had the privilege of meeting the festivals organizer and #1 fan/promoter Randy Collier. We’ve become friends and I’ve been a volunteer for the last 4 years. Two years ago I did a little video work. Every year is a treat, and this year was no exception.