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Platform Agnostic

Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Geek, Ideas, Leadership, Life, Listening, Perspective, Questions, SharePoint, TechProfound on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I think I want everything to be platform agnostic.  But, I’m not sure about reasons why I might not want that.  I think I’d like everything I do, as it relates to computing and technology and communications, to be able to be done on any platform and to be seamless.
Am I missing anything?  Is there [...]

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leadership

Posted in Challenge, Ideas, Inspire, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, TechProfound, tagged on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As I venture through new challenges in life, I am constantly aware of the leadership that is around me, that I am following and I am even aware of people who look at me for leadership.  Leaders are human and make mistakes.  That has often been one thing that has endeared me to the leaders that I am following…  Great [...]

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remembering

Posted in Challenge, Family, Friends, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

9/11/2001

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mini transfortmations

Posted in Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JobHunt, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, NotHappening, Perspective, Praise, Questions, Rants, VIPcomments on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apple is evil.  –>  Apple rocks!  I love my MacBook Air.  I love my iPhone.  Good customer service goes a LONG way!  Great customer service breads loyalty.
Anthony Bourdain is stupid.  –>  Anthony Bourdain rules!  No Reservations kicks butt.  Kitchen Confidential sparked all sorts of creativity.  Writing and reading things that stretch my horizons is healthy [...]

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AMEN!!!

Posted in Challenge, Ideas, Inspire, JobHunt, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Praise, Rants, TechProfound on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If Job Applicants Designed Selection Procedures

The application form would be easily completed within a short period of time.
The job requirements would ask for what is truly required to do the job.
No one would be invited to interview for a job that is already filled.
Applicants would receive an acknowledgement notice once their application is received.
They would [...]

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Success Prep

Posted in Autodidactism, Challenge, Ideas, Inspire, JobHunt, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Praise on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything
[HT: Clint Covington]

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Exciting, Beautiful Day, Full of Change!

Posted in Challenge, Geek, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The changes in my life over the past couple months, and the changes coming in the next couple months are radical and exciting.  I’m about to download OpenOffice.org, for the first time, ever!   I’ve had amazing connections with Microsoft and have been doing work in IT for more than a decade.  So, here I [...]

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Deciding to be happy is vital.

Posted in Challenge, Inspire, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Praise on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Once again, from some communications this morning, I’m happy to learn of situations in my life, and in the lives of other people, where deciding to be happy is vital. I wrote a little bit about it with my “tethering molasses” post. (Read past the first couple paragraphs to see what that post [...]

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Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Geek, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Praise, Questions, Rants, TechProfound, VIPcomments, Vids on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

Notice my URL… now.
I found this video via this post.
It’s particularly interesting to me because I just had a discussion with a good friend.  That discussion was directly about this topic and how we have different viewpoints and different aspects of this topic in our lives.
I’m listening.
I’m [...]

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by august 31

Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, VIPcomments, WFFF, Writing on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

write a book
lose 30 pounds
go to hawaii
simplify material possessions
move to midwest

Those are not prioritized.  The list is limited to 5.  More would overwhelm me.  Fewer would not challenge me.  I can do it.  I will do it.  I will do it by August 31, 2008.  ~T. W. Getsch ~Saturday, May 24th, 2008

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laugh, think, cry

Posted in Challenge, Family, Friends, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Writing on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be [...]

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Waiting for Free Food – Intro

Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Rants, Start, VIPcomments, WFFF, Writing on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Intro
Well, it’s a Thursday.  Once again, I’m at work early.  I like the calm and quiet of the mornings.  It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease.  I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s.  I had mostly early [...]

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March 20

Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Pics, Praise, Start, VIPcomments, Writing on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

March 20 is today’s date.  This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year).  There are 286 days remaining.  It’s the first day of Spring!  It’s also plenty of other things.  Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor – an [...]

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How do I communicate?

Posted in Challenge, Leadership, Listening, Perspective on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I do a lot of training, educating, troubleshooting, listening, brainstorming, teaching, helping, coaching and various other sorts of communicating.  I’m constantly trying to evaluate good ways to convey messages to others and to understand their messages to me.  When I’m doing it well, I’m trying to understand their messages first, and doing that objectively.
This post [...]

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Hmmm… CHANGE YOUR DAMNED PASSWORDS!

Posted in Challenge, Geek, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Perspective, TechProfound on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wow.  I used all caps in the subject.  Why?
From a geek’s perspective, the answer is DUH!
From the regular person’s perspective, maybe the commentary below will convince you.  There is No Free Lunch: Change your password NOW!  By Robert X. Cringely – – And, here’s the podcast/audio version, for those of you who don’t like to [...]

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