Photos from last weeks storm that hit the Puget Sound area. Last Thursday night, the Puget Sound area was hit with one of the worst storms in over 30 years. With wind gusts over 90 miles per hour, over 1 million customers lost electrical power. Some customers will not have power for up to 10 days. More information can be found here.
Seattle Times coverage (photos available here)
Thousands in region bracing for fifth night without power
Same intensity, more extensive damage than ‘93 storm
I live on the “East side” of the Seattle metro area in one of the hardest hit areas.
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One the best speeches I have ever read, heard, or viewed regarding life work and the importance of doing what you love.
For the full text of the speech, click Continue reading below.
Enjoy!
Continue reading ‘Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005′
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One of the issues that every company faces is how much information to share with customers and employees. At work, there is a constant battle between disclosure of raw and immediate information and processing or summarizing information to ensure it accurate and will be understood.
Over at The Longtail blog, Chris Anderson has posted an article called “In Praise of Radical Transparency“. He states,
“Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency. The default communications mode of companies has traditionally been top-down, with only executives and official spokespeople permitted to discuss company business in public. The standard rule, explicit or not, was “That which we choose not to announce is not to be spoken about.” Aside from some special exemptions, such as conferences where those employees trusted enough to go chatted guardedly with outsiders, employees were cautioned that what happened at work should stay at work. Loose lips sink ships, etc.”
One of my acquaintances is Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. Jonathan is a prolific blogger and a pioneer for CEO bloggers. Check out his blog here: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/
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I arrived home from München on 30-Jun and immediately left to go camping with my daughter in the mountains just east of Seattle, WA. Specifically, we were about 5 miles from Cle Elum, Washington at a camp called Ensign Ranch.
I took a few photos of our camping trip. They can be found on our .Mac site here.
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June 28 and 29th Siemens Home Entertainment held a semiannual PLM (Product Line Management) workshop in München. Check out the photo album here. Every 6 months, or so, the global Home Entertainment PLM team gets together to discuss our IPTV solution. We talk about what is going right and what isn’t, as well as plan for our upcoming releases. Most of all it is a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with our incredibly talented product management team — we all have a great time.
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Tut Systems packetizes content from satellite broadcasters, such as TNT, CNN, and HBO, and makes it available for use on IP networks. Ryan Petty, vice president of product line management at Siemens Home Entertainment said the company also re-encodes the content into H.264, an ITU standard for compressing video.
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