Mark Shead over at Productivity501 interviewed me about my switch to the Dvorak keyboard. “We’ve talked about the Dvorak keyboard before when I learned Michael Sampson was making the switch. Since it has been a few months, I thought it would be interesting to checkup and see how […]
Thanks to a kind invitation by Catherine, the manager of the Intranet Leadership Forum, I will be visiting Sydney and Canberra in early April to talk about SharePoint from a business perspective, as well as covering some of the technical issues. The ILF wanted a vendor-neutral, non-sales pitch […]
“What’s the big idea?” is a question that has been perplexing me for some time about my work. How do I fit everything into each day? What do I stand for? What is the ethos and intent of my work? For whom do I work, that is, what […]
My mother-in-law (Edna) is a treasure. She is truly wonderful, and is loved by all who know her. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day here, and it’s pretty hard with a newborn baby and 7 older children to go out to a restaurant for a meal with just Katrina … […]
BrightStar is hosting the NZ 6th Annual Information Management Summit in Wellington in April 2008. Along with other great speakers, I will be there. My session is at 11.00am on April 15th: The Key to Collaboration without Chaos – The concept of collaboration and how it can enhance […]
In April 2006 when I joined Foldera, I shuttered my analyst company Shared Spaces Research & Consulting. It had been a great vehicle for my research and consulting work, but with becoming a vendor, it had to end. I intended to stop writing a blog, but I felt […]
We needed new safety pads for our trampoline. A quick Google search turned up a couple of options in New Zealand. I ordered ours from Apex Trampoline Mats Ltd in Auckland, and when they arrived on Saturday, I was taken with the excellent quality of the workmanship. Kudos […]
Thanks to a collaboration between Eric and Kent, I am the delighted owner of an iPod Touch. It is a really cool device, and a great improvement over the previous iPod I had. The browser experience is particularly neat. Now I’m looking for a case for it. The […]
Five weeks ago I turned my back on 17 years of touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard, and switched to the Dvorak keyboard. Not only could I touch type, but I could do so very quickly and mindlessly. That is, I could look at someone in an interview […]
Holidays are: – Packing up vehicle and trailer, with clothes and bedding and food for three days away – Strange holiday houses, and small too – Six children sleeping in a room designed for two – Different smells – Instructions at the beach, “don’t get your shoes wet”, […]
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