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Personal

A Mormon Author’s Perspective on Mormon Church vs. WikiLeaks

14 May 2008

Tagged as: copyright, ipr, religion

Personal

Jesse Stay, an online friend of mine, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the release of copyright material owned by the LDS church by Wikileaks.  He says,
As an author, and Social Media developer, and Mormon, I thought I’d pipe in on what I think of the WikiLeaks issues going on. It’s as simple [...]

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Tribute to the late LDS President Hinckley

4 February 2008

Tagged as: Glenn Beck, Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS, mormon

Personal

A very nice tribute of President Gordon B. Hinckley who passed away last week by Glenn Beck.

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Why You Need to be Organised to be Creative

10 November 2007

Tagged as: creativity, organization, productivity, time management, to-do

Business Excellence

Mark McGuinness over at the Business of Design Online blog has written a series of articles (see links bel0w), on getting organized and improving creativity.  Often many of us pitch creativity versus organization and structure erroneously.  I believe organization and structure create (pun intended) an environment where creativity can flourish.  Here is was Mark thinks:
There, [...]

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Goodbye Myrio

31 October 2007

Tagged as: goodbye, IPTV, Jobs., myrio, stanford commencement

Communications

Dear friends and colleagues,
As I depart Nokia Siemens Networks (Myrio was acquired in 2005 by Siemens and is now subsidiary of Nokia Siemens Networks), today marks the end of an era for me–11 amazing years.
When we started working on the technologies that became Myrio, we had a
dream that one day companies all over the world [...]

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Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?

16 October 2007

Tagged as: hapiness, psychological immune system, psychology, synthetic happiness

Personal

Psychologist Dan Gilbert challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel real, enduring happiness, he says, even when things don’t go as planned. He calls this kind of happiness “synthetic happiness,” and he says it’s “every bit as real and enduring as [...]

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Ready or Not, AT&T Sells Uverse

1 March 2007

Tagged as: IPTV

Microsoft

Om Malik, from Gigaom (see links on right), has written a piece on AT&T Uverse deployment of the Microsoft IPTV platform.
It is hard to get a grip on AT&T’s IPTV efforts. Dubbed Uverse, some say AT&T’s television service it is still stuck in neutral, plagued by technical problems. AT&T, however feels otherwise, and has started [...]

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Why I joined the EFF

21 February 2007

Tagged as: Gadgets

Content

Recently, I joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Some might equate the EFF the ACLU of the digital world. So, those of you that know my political leanings might ask, why? Let me try to explain.
Regular readers of this blog know that I work in the telecommunications industry. Specifically, for the [...]

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Urban Legends Reference Pages: 2006 Federal Excise Tax Credit

11 January 2007 Communications

According to the folks over at Snopes.com, this urban legend appears to be true.  They have a great explanation of the refund amounts as well as the reason almost everyone qualifies for this one time credit.  Make sure you take advantage of this and pass this along to everyone you know.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: 2006 [...]

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Siemens vs. Microsoft on IPTV (Part One of Two)

6 January 2007

Tagged as: AT&T, Business, IPTV, Microsoft, Television

Communications

Over at ITVT, there is a two part interview with representatives from Siemens and Microsoft debating their varying approaches to IPTV technologies and the market. Of course, I am biased as my team and I make many of the decisions about the Siemens approach to the market as well as many of the technology choices [...]

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Can!

27 December 2006 Personal

Rick Reilly: Strongest Dad In the World From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly [SI Premium Subscription required]
[Article text for the rest of us] http://cjcphoto.com/can/
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five [...]

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