tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54619752009-06-26T11:07:25.452-05:00The man, the myth, the legend in his own mind....joefechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00944486203831348182noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461975.post-85494866715543225792009-05-22T11:21:00.000-05:002009-05-22T11:21:02.612-05:00

iGoogle: "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. - Segal's Law"

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boogle.com - google search engine with quotes: "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace"

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Nitpicker / The Humane InterfaceSummary. An interface should be effective, habituating, reliable, efficient, and tested. To the extent that doing so does not conflict with these essentials, an interface should also be attractive.

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Some great quotes on their website:Distance is an excuse to postpone action. The more time you allocate to your projects, the longer it will be before you take action. Transparency equals control. Transparency in product development means visibility into whats happening...and what isn't. A note on that. Command and control is a paradigm of that a single hierarchical group or person can

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As both an agile advocate and a CS Lewis fan, this got me. One interesting concept from this, one that I had not heard, was that of a "cargo cult". I see cargo cults as the primary risk in going forward with top-down agile implementations, especially if the "top" doesn't get it.Cargo cults:During World War II a number of airbases were built on remote tropical islands inhabited by

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Well, 2009 is here. Crapola, another year on the ticker. Hopefully I've got a lot of them left!A quick list of resolutionites (mini-resolutions)Personal: 1. Participate in the lukemia run this summer ( train now!)2. Finishing Amici Picolli, my first children s book, and submitting to at least one agent. Date - End of year.3. Building up HappyWisdom.com. This is crazy that I let that site

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While I was generating anagrams, look what I find. NICE. :)Internet Anagram Server : Anagrams for Fecarotta: "Thought of the Moment:In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)"

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Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear WeaponsNow this is amazing. It'll tell you how bad you'd do if a major city near you got nuked.

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There is little that I can think of that compares to having children. My three babies are so central to who I am now I'm not sure where I end and they begin.My oldest, Brianna, is the same sweet baby she's been her whole life, despite the layering of a pre-teen intellect and attitude. I'm very hopeful we'll get through her teenage years relatively unscathed. I have to say it was very hard for

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One last thing, before you consider capitalism completely dead..... Laissez-faire capitalism has a definite meaning, which is totally ignored, contradicted, and downright defiled by such statements as those quoted above. Laissez-faire capitalism is a politico-economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and in which the powers of the state are limited to the protection of

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Coolness.Gallery: Sci-Fi-Inspired Concept Ships Show Future of Travel

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Man these things are growing like crazy. Homeschooling or non-government schooling is the future!K12: K12 Inc. - Home schooling curriculum, public school options, virtual academy schools, virtual charter, distance learning programs for elementary & high school grades, in Science, Math, History, English, Language Arts and more!

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A new level of realism has been attained for Computer graphics. It looks like they FINALLY got the eyes right!Awesome job guys over at Image Metrics. This is Emily, which is significantly more impressive than any video I've seen, even from their website. I'm convinced that in my lifetime these will be standard in every digital experience, and even perhaps change how work occurs. What if its

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Just love quotes!"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson DaviesThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone

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I get an RSS feed from DIGG I continuously think of removing since its just a bunch of loonies ranting against Bush. What are they EVER going to do after the election? Anyway, one fellow commented this, and it is AWESOME: "My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. I'm a co-sponsor of the

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Another one of these Transhuman things......popping up all over the place. ------Computer trained to "read" mind images of wordsThu May 29, 2008 4:32pm EDTBy Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer has been trained to "read" people's minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.They hope their study,

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May 29, 2008Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their ThoughtsBy BENEDICT CAREYTwo monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.The report, released online by the journal Nature, is the most

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On the road to the elusive Web 3.0 (something to do with semantics, meaning, and context rather than just data, links, and AJAX), core infrastructure is beginning to move from the edge to a center inhabited by companies such as Amazon, Salesforce.com, Joyent, and now Google with its new App Engine.Call it Web 2.5, where the platform-as-a-service providers allow developers to create Web

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Liang Qichao on Love - Quotation - MSN Encarta: "Where there is dynamism there is interpenetration; where there is interpenetration there is universal love, so all mutually sympathetic things cannot remain apart."Liang Qichao (1873 - 1929)

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"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." -- Barry GoldwaterWell, that says it all. Had a great birthday recently. We stayed home, rather than the traditional going out to eat, we cracked open the video cases and watched videos from my kid's childhood. It was awesome and I recommend it to everyone who has kids, or just old videos. Its simply

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Did I tell this wonderful blog audience that my previous employer, Delta Funding, is no more? They folded a few months ago. I avoided the axe once again. I have a knack at seeing the axe coming, thus my streak of zero unemployment since I was 18 ( save college, which was intentional.)Its interesting to think what would have happened had I stayed. I'd be commuting to the city everyday, part

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Went to my son, TopGun, basketball game this Saturday, and it was AWESOME. He shot, and scored, saving the game from certain defeat! It was a lot of fun. The team really needs to learn how to pass the ball, but the play is aggressive and fun to watch. Other things...we're getting ready for a little trip up to the mountains next month to take advantage of the epic snow up there this year.

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iGoogle: "The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert"

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Hawking's wonderful. I especially enjoy 10 and 2...10. "Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."9. "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross

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Okay, so here I'm supposed to record my resolutions. Well, guess what: I haven't made any yet. Things, off the top of my head, that I'd like to accomplish this year: 1. I'd really like to get serious about this portal of mine. I think there is something there....but the time! What concrete goal? 2. Fitness. I have to drop about 20 pounds....maybe 15+ muscle. 3. MBA -- I'm foolish if I

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