1. There are updates that you need.
2. There are updates that you want.
3. It is the responsible thing to do.
4. It is easy.
5. You are responsible for your delinquency.
6. It’s not about technology.
7. Listen to the real experts.
8. Your valuable time is your valuable time.
9. Your favorite geek’s valuable time is not your valuable time.
10. You will thank me later.

A couple related posts about doing updates are also very relevant.

“J Street Technology, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is pleased to announce SharePoint capabilities, allowing us to help small, medium, and large organizations leverage the SharePoint platform to improve business productivity and efficiency.

Heading up this initiative is Toby Getsch, a Program Manager and SharePoint MCTS with extensive experience deploying, installing, and configuring SharePoint for numerous organizations across a wide range of industries. Toby’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early 2000’s and he has continued working with all sizes of organizations, from small businesses to large multi-national corporations.

Adding to his SharePoint-specific experience is more than a decade of IT leadership, consulting, advising, and project work. With a particular passion for planning the right strategy and execution, his experience with various engagements fits very well with J Street’s growing SharePoint expertise.”

I’m really excited about this opportunity and I can’t wait to rock and roll!  (Yes, I’m talking about SharePoint and rock and roll!  They do go together.)

What is SharePoint?  Check out this video.

What is Rock and Roll?  Check out this video.

And, if you don’t see some of my idea of fun and humor in this post, that’s ok.  SharePoint has excellent security trimming so that only the right people see the right things, even in search results. 

UPDATE: 12/14/2008: Another big change…  This blog got rebranded…  Now, it’s TechProfound. Guess what?!  It’ll all just work…

Here’s a quick note to mention a bit of a change happening here on Tweblog.com.  I’m going to start posting more geek stuff and more work related things.  With my new job (Stay tuned for more on that soon!) and with the creation of MegaDrivel.com, I am branching off “because i got stuff to say” as a separate blog.  Now, Tweblog.com will be tagged as “geek w/ social skillz” and MegaDrivel.com will be tagged as “because i got stuff to say”.  Of course, I can always do whatever I want with both blogs.  I’m just trying to segment some different passions into different places.  If it works, cool!  If it doesn’t work, oh well.  For now, it is what it is.  Enjoy!

UPDATE 11/22/2008: I set this post to be “sticky” and stay at the top of the home page.  I’m just doing this for a little while, during the transition…  There are new posts, right below this one!

Wisconsin is just another Midwest place.  –>  Wisconsin is cool for how loyal people are, how simple people are, how honest people are, and how good the beer is.    (Believe it or not, in MN, I was asked, “They still make that s&!t?” and told, “I’m surprised we had any of that stuff around.” (That’s in relation to PBR!)  That’s practical blasphemy in Sconnieland.

Maybe these are major transformations!?!?

WHAT’S NEXT?!

I think it’s because I’ve been so geared up to GO, GO, GO for so long.  When it/life slows down a little bit, I feel a little awkward.  I’m a doer.  I like to get things done.  I don’t like excuses.  For that matter, I don’t even like reasons when I can rattle off dozens of contrary reasons.

I think there’s some other personal stuff going on.  I probably should hold off writing until there’s some calmer thinking. … It’s family crap, in case you’re wondering.  CRAP! I say, CRAP!

I’m definitely listening.  I’m hearing all sorts of stuff around me.  It’s not a matter of abilities.  It’s a mater of decisions and choices and options and figuring out what I want to do, when I want to do it, and how I want to do it.

Rambling!  I’m rambling.  That’s ok.  This is my blog and I feel like rambling right now.

“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 happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.”  ~Jim Valvano 

http://waitingforfreefood.com/2008/04/03/intro/

Today is World Storytelling Day!

Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor – an American efficiency expert.  We share the same bent towards that.  We share the same middle initial.  If he was alive today, he would be 152 years old today.  We don’t share that.

I am still around, and today is my birthday!  I’m 36 today. 

Here’s lookin’ at you, kid!  Cheers!

UPDATE: I think good things are going to happen this year.  To start off, I’m going to add, awesome ways to start 002.

“Ghost Rider, this is Strike. We have unknown aircraft inbound Mustang. Your vector zero-nine-zero for bogey.”

I’ve come to some conclusions.

I can change the world.

Everyone has the ability to change the world.

The difference is that I want to and I will.

There are some people that I can’t change.

There are most people that I can’t change.

There is nobody that I can change.

I don’t want to change people.  That’s up to the individual.

I can change the world.  That’s up to me.

This is important to realize.  This is a distinction between the emotional tug to argue and be right and to win a power struggle … and … the focus and drive and passion needed to facilitate change and positive growth.

So, what have I determined today?  I will not be a politician.  They spend too much time talking and not enough time doing.  I will not engage in debates and rhetoric that are not focused on solutions.  The kinds of debates and rhetoric that I am talking about avoiding are focused on being right, not focused on being better.  I want to focus on being better.

I will always have political issues to deal with.  That’s just the politics of life.  We can’t avoid that.  But, I will not make dealing with that be *my* focus.

With all that being said, people can and do change.  I have changed.