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Easter 2010

Easter 2010 presented a new set of challenges. With the new baby in tow we had a little more stuff but we all made it through our first overnight.

I hear it gets easier each time.

More regular posting to come.

Dinner: An Oxymoron?

Natural enemies on one plate.

View of flowers from our backyard

It is spring in California. This is a shot of our flowers in the backyard. While there is much work to do in the yard, it is nice to have the established trees and flowers.

Mother Dove

Our doves looks to have finally made a proper nest. Last season they did not do so well. From the looks of it the mother dove hopes to have babies soon. I will keep you informed.

A Management Technique That I can Identify With!!!

After a week of a lot of work and it will be still going through the weekend. This cartoon below really rang true and gave me a chuckle.  Originally from this website.

As an IT guy, this cartoon's messages ranks right up with the acronym RTFM.

An Inspiring Dinner

It was pretty cool.  Last night, I was able to sit in and listen to Guy Kawasaki. He was speaking a San Francisco EO/YEO event.

A couple of things.  One, Guy Kawasaki is a person that I have followed for a long time.  I have read all of this books and I own and read a couple of time his book, The Art of the Start. Normally when Anne has events I just meet her after, but when she asked if I wanted to come to this reception/dinner event to listen to Guy speak, I jumped on the chance.

Two, EO/YEO of San Francisco is a organization that is made of up of some great members. Everyone seems to be doing exciting projects. While I don't have the qualifications to join the organization, it was wonderful to be guest for the evening. I learned a few things and was inspired at the same time.

MySpace.com

What I love about MySpace.com:

1) The ability to reconnect with friends around the country from high school to college.

What I hate about MySpace.com:

1) The loading times of the MySpace.com site. This could be my personal page or all my friend's pages. Everything takes just way too long to load. I know that a lot of it has to do with the freedom that each users has to design and display their pages. And, the traffic on the MySpace.com servers can be high from time to time. But, man I would use the site more if I knew that pages would load faster. I am not on modem speed either.

Where is that happy medium?

Two were too much to handle

I have decided to end maintaining two blogs. So, for now, www.mybplan.net, will forward to here. I was not doing enough on either site to do them justice. Maybe some time in the future, I will feel the need to separate the two sites. So, jrmwebspace.com will have more than just personal "what I did" information.

Enjoy.

Sitting at Fetzer

We are sitting at Fetzer enjoying the rain and peace and quit not thinking about blogging.

O, wait....

Apple's Boot Camp flaw?

I have been out of the debate of the new Beta Boot Camp Software from Apple that allows to dual boot an Intel Mac into the Windows environment or Mac OS. (Of course you need to provide a valid copy of Windows.) Or does it?

There have been some reports of the the Beta Boot Camp Software not performing to what it was lived up to do. LINK.  Apparently, after you boot to windows on a few systems it will not boot back into Mac OS.  Oops.

While I recognize that this is a major problem and should be fixed, it is one of the main reasons that I did not jump at the opportunity to get on board.  (The other is that I would need to trade in my ibook for an Intel Mac. Not happening right now.)  With all the Beta software this Beta software that out on the web by big and small companies, we forget what the meaning of Beta software is.  It does not mean that it will work with all systems in all environments.  IE. It has flaws.  It is beta.  You, the users, are testing software in a larger scale for the company.  Use at your own risk.  Make backups before installing.

There used to be a time, when I would have jumped at the chance to beta test software.  Not to say that I will never Beat test again, I am just now at a point where I want the software to work with as little hassle as possible.  I don't want to mess with it to make it work.  I guess that is something that has come with age.  I don't have the time or the will to use most Beta software.