For the past several weeks, I have experienced a side of leadership that most leaders hope they will never have to face, but nearly all will. That time when you have to ask GOOD people to leave your company for reasons completely outside their personal control. Day after day of reviewing names, considering what you [...]
I don’t generally post opinion on this blog, but this has been running around inside my head since I read this post by Scott Bourne on the TWIPPhoto blog. So what would be the perfect camera? For me, it’s one where the technology gets out of the way of the creative act. Lets face it, [...]
One of the things I got from Dad was a passion for photography. Fortunately that means that Dad took many many pictures of all the places he went as part of the US Army Air Corp and USAF. I have several thousand slides that I am working my way through scanning in order to preserve [...]
NYAS – 97 Originally uploaded by whiskeybravo Picked up this Flickr MeMe from Thomas Hawk’s feed. This is the 6th photo on the 6th page of my photostream. Pretty nice if I do say so…
Two weeks ago I made a trip to our offices in Chennai. I stayed at the wonderful Fisherman’s Cove resort which is quite near our new offices. The office facility is outstanding, one of the finest in Chennai and the employees and staff keep it immaculate. I have a very enjoyable visit and I must [...]
More to my conspiracy theory of environmentalists against renewable energy sources. This story in the Chicago Tribune documents the protests regarding the transmission lines required to get power from a proposed solar facility in the southern California desert to where it will be useful. Do people have any clue? How do they THINK that energy [...]
I want one, badly. The Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) from Icon is supposedly targeting the adventure market, “the same people who but motorcycles and sport watercraft.” I’m sure they are right as long as those are also the same people who drive Porsches. The Icon will set you back $140K. Ahhh, to be wealthy.
Several news stories that caught my attention today: The Financial Times reports on an increasing number of UK based companies that are reversing outsourcing strategies and bring production “back home”. The bigger trend remains in the other direction of course, but it is interesting to see how creative companies can get about reducing costs locally [...]
While it might now be possible to buy a plug-in electric “car” for less than $20k (if you call three wheels and two seats a car), I honestly don’t see myself driving a plug-in vehicle anytime soon. Transportation for the foreseeable future will continue to rely on internal combustion for the vast majority of people. [...]
In a very interesting New York Times article, the fact that Japan is “running out of engineers” is explored in some detail. They note that engineering graduate numbers have been on the decline for two decades in Japan, and that they are also declining in the US. But in the US and other countries the [...]
