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Becoming Scrum Master with Jeff Sutherland
Last week I attended the Certified Scrum Master class with Jeff Sutherland, one of the inventors of Scrum, and founder of Scrum Inc. Scrum is an agile methodology, used by about 10% of companies today, which produces astounding results compared … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Boston, certifications, Jeff Sutherland, methodology, Scrum
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Carl Sagan Lives Again – Via Remix
I remember watching “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” in 1980 or 81 in Lubbock, Texas while attending Texas Tech. It was an inspiring 13-part PBS television series, hosted by Carl Sagan, on topics of the universe, science, and nature; probably a … Continue reading
What’s your Brain Performance Index (BPI)?
A few weeks ago, I found a sight that practically claims it will help you improve your brain health and performance. It’s called Lumosity.com. They allow you to play a few games, for free, then encourage you to upgrade to … Continue reading
Why I Switched back to EVO from SENuke?
SENuke and EVO are both powerful SEO tools. It wasn’t the price savings, but the time savings that made me switch back to EVO from SENuke. I actually like SENuke better conceptually, but it takes more time to use. Read … Continue reading
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Tagged EVO, Internet Marketing, SEnuke, SEO, SEONuke
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Addicted to Osmos
I bought a ViewSonic GTablet from Woot for about $235, and found these instructions to upgrade GTablet to Honeycomb edition of Android operating system. For a newbie to this hardware, it was a little like brain surgery, but I got … Continue reading
Book Review: “Six Pixels of Separation”
Published in 2009, I read it in 2010, but just now reviewing it. So, a lot of my review is coming from what I highlighted with a yellow-marker. Overall, as a person who lives on the internet, the book seemed … Continue reading
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Bob Parson’s – 16 Rules for Success
Bob Parson’s started several companies, including Parson’s Technology (which he sold to Intuit for millions), and he recently sold GoDaddy.com for $2.25 Billion. GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar, that now manages 35 million domains and has over 7 million … Continue reading
Family Heirloom or Junk?
I have a water pitcher and basin that I find rather ugly, other than the nice skin color “crackling” on the bottom. A “trader” apparently brought it back from Indonesia when we lived in Australia (about 1966). It seems to … Continue reading
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My Favorite Backup Tool
If you are “living digital”, you MUST be constantly concerned about the backups of your digital assets. About a year ago, I installed SpiderOak on my laptop, and now use it for my primary backup. They had a free trial … Continue reading
When Your Google Calendar Software Let’s You Down…
My next BizTalk contract won’t be in Richmond, Virginia, thanks to Google Calendar! I use Google Calendar everyday, and until now, it has always alerted me to my events and meetings. Today, I missed a phone interview because I actually … Continue reading
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Tagged google apps, google calendar, notifications, reminder pop-ups
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