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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Sunday Book Review: Earning Serendipity by Glenn Llopis
Earning Serendipity: 4 Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work by Glenn Llopis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book had been on my list for a while. I am a firm believer in serendipity and find [...]
Political Bites: Education Spending
What should be done to improve the quality of education despite limited funds?
We need to be looking at radical change in our school systems. They say that you should never waste a good crisis. We are certainly in crisis mode, [...]
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Political Bites: Which Bill Would You Kill?
If you could choose one state legislative bill to kill or enact, which would it be? Why?
At this point almost anything that the legislature puts forward is worth killing. Until they stop insisting to put all sorts of pork on [...]
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Sunday Book Review: SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
If you read the Freakonomics this more of the same great stuff. I find learning how the mind [...]
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Political Bites: Strategies for Removing Blight
What strategies would be most effective to fight neighborhood blight?
Anything that helps create community and get residents to have pride in their neighborhood is a good start. Take empty lots and convert them to pocket parks or urban gardens for [...]
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Sunday Book Review: The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Let me start by saying I am probably a certified asshole or at least a regular asshole. This book has valid content and I recommend both assholes [...]
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Chat Terminated, Waiting To Restart (Propane for Campfire)
We use 37 Signals Campfire for team chatter and various back channels. On OSX there is a desktop client called Propane. It works well and makes Campfire usable for our team. Recently, I started getting “Chat Terminated, Waiting to Restart” [...]
Policital Bites: Birthright Legislation
What do you think of the four birthright-citizenship bills that were introduced on Thursday?
I’m not an attorney but the 14th Amendment states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of [...]
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Desert Code Camp 2011.1
Saturday April 2nd @ Chandler-Gilbert Community College Pecos Campus
Desert Code Camp has opened it’s call for suggestions. This is a great FREE event that brings together technologists of all kinds together at a single location to learn (while feeding them [...]
