Writings

Everything I've written, newest first. 190 posts going back to 2003. Or browse by topic.

2026

Aug 24 Hello (again) World!
Aug 11 More Capacity, More Waiting LinkedIn ↗
Apr 6 What Agent Onboarding Actually Looks Like (A Practical Walkthrough) LinkedIn ↗
Apr 2 The Management Gap Nobody's Talking About LinkedIn ↗
Jan 20 Code Was Never the Asset: A Proof-of-Concept for AI-Era Architecture LinkedIn ↗
Jan 2 One Man Submarine Ride LinkedIn ↗

2025

Nov 24 Producing Solutions with AI LinkedIn ↗
Aug 30 2,886 Commits in a Year: Why Senior Engineers Could Have Their Best Year Ever LinkedIn ↗

2008

Jul 4 The Lookout
Jun 29 Back to Kauai
Jun 25 The Road to Hana
Jun 22 He’s Blogging, He Must Be in Hawaii
Feb 13 Stephen Colbert teaches Sunday School!
Feb 10 Quarterly Update

2007

Nov 2 Does anyone still read this?
Oct 13 Fire Coach Fran…
Oct 9 Travel advisory for Buffalo…
Oct 8 Not Maui
Jun 7 Enjoying Life on the DirecTV “A-List”
Jun 5 Play Ball, Aggies!
Jun 5 Discovering The Colbert Report
Jun 2 Touring the Pearl Harbor Memorial
May 31 Aggies at the Beach
May 30 Our Kauai Restaurant Review
May 29 Suzanne & Handbags…
May 23 Hiking the Kalalau Trail
May 23 Dinner on the Beach
May 21 Dining out in Kauai
May 20 A River House
May 19 Times Like These…
May 15 We’re Unemployed!
Mar 29 Mending Fences (Not)
Mar 23 Aggies Ousted; Please Billy, don’t go!
Mar 17 Sweet Sixteen!
Feb 18 First Aggie Win in Oklahoma since 1987
Feb 6 Couples Training…
Feb 6 Aggies: The Bests Keep Coming
Jan 25 Aggies to #6; Lose to Tech

2006

Dec 10 Christmas Kitty
Dec 9 UCLA defeats A&M; Too many mistakes
Dec 6 LSU defeats A&M; UCLA awaits…
Dec 4 Progress Report: 1 month with a Personal Trainer
Dec 4 Big Week for Aggie Fans…
Nov 24 Aggies 12, Longhorns 7
Nov 11 Coach Fran Must Go!
Nov 6 While you weren’t looking…
Nov 6 No joy…
Nov 6 In Training
Oct 22 Weekend in Gruene
Oct 22 iPod in your Car?
Oct 10 Riviera Maya
Jul 10 Forgive me Father for I have sinned…
Jun 28 When is a gift not a gift?
Jun 25 Dwyane Wade and the NBA
Jun 24 RadRails vs. Textmate
Jun 23 Scammers on eBay
Jun 20 Work Rewards, but…
Jun 20 NBA Finals Game 6 Awaits
Jun 20 Mavs Lose; Conspiracy?
Jun 15 From Buzz to Fizzle…
Jun 11 Conspiracy Continues; Mavs Win Again
Jun 10 Picture Framing
Jun 9 NBA Conspiracy — Myth Busted
Jun 6 I’m Cybersquatting!
Jun 5 Are you kidding me? The Saturn Sky.
Jun 4 Repurposing the old iPod
Jun 3 Why no SSL?
Jun 3 Keeping the Vacation Buzz…
May 27 Reintegrating…
May 24 Hiking Honopu Ridge
May 23 Mavs Win!
May 21 Paydirt!
May 20 Rain Continues…
May 19 Wednesday Review
May 19 Secret Beach
May 17 Kayaking Hanalei River
May 16 Enough beach for you?
May 14 Flickr Pics
May 13 Return to Kauai
Apr 24 The Healing Power of the Island
Apr 8 Tax Troubles
Apr 8 Jury Duty…
Mar 23 In a funk at work…
Mar 23 Aggies better than Duke?
Mar 22 Who can beat them?
Mar 22 Lowe’s Customer (Un)service
Mar 19 King of the Rain
Mar 18 Stay Sober in Irving Bars!
Mar 18 CBS needs to get a clue
Mar 17 Tragedy in Kauai
Mar 16 Aggies Win!
Mar 11 More things I wonder about…
Mar 11 Aggie Basketball is Back!
Mar 7 The Four-Way Stop
Mar 7 Grizzly Man
Mar 4 Playing the game of Life
Feb 28 You know you work in Corporate IT when…
Feb 28 Compass Bank Sucks
Feb 27 Unfortunate Car Trouble…
Feb 27 Things I wonder about…
Feb 23 Living in Kauai
Feb 11 Lowe’s and Home Depot Frustrations
Jan 23 Denver Rails Studio Review
Jan 23 Denver Rails Studio Miscellaneous Notes
Jan 6 An Aggie’s Dilemna

2005

Dec 9 Wishing for the Beach…
Dec 4 Our Christmas Tree
Dec 4 Christmas Gifts…
Dec 3 Job Interviews should be Auditions
Nov 28 Miscellaneous Stuff
Nov 27 Windows to Kauai
Nov 27 Thanksgiving Review
Oct 22 Everything Zen…
Oct 4 Aggie Vindication…
Oct 3 SOA 2.0…
Oct 3 Hats off to the NHL…
Oct 3 Green with envy…
Oct 1 More Bathroom Humor…
Sep 28 Dental Phobia
Sep 22 “Lost” did not disappoint…
Sep 21 The New NHL
Sep 21 Sign of the times…
Sep 21 “Lost” Returns
Sep 21 Google is Everywhere?
Sep 20 Happy as a clam?!
Sep 20 Chic-Fil-A’s domain name
Sep 19 Weblog Redesign?
Sep 16 Embrace the Swarm
Sep 14 The Small Team / Company Argument
Sep 14 New Rules for the New Economy — 7 Years Later
Sep 14 5 Blades!
Sep 13 What was Samuel L. Jackson reading?
Sep 13 Music Tie-Ins with Hurrican Katrina
Sep 13 If Pei Wei were a website…
Sep 13 Bathroom Behavior…
Sep 12 Think Big, Act Small
Aug 30 Hitched!
Aug 23 Marital Bliss Awaits…
Jun 8 News about my Side-Venture
May 9 Dealerships Suck II
Apr 22 Dealerships Suck…
Apr 21 Remembering Granny Panny…
Apr 20 Lost: Stranded with no new Episodes
Apr 20 If you could live forever…
Apr 14 You might be an ass if…
Apr 8 Shoe Laces…
Apr 3 Lost — the TV show
Apr 3 Kuraoka House in Kauai
Apr 3 Getting Married…

2004

Nov 17 Let me get this straight…
Nov 17 Election Fallout
Oct 7 My Valuation is $1,632.35
Oct 3 Kauai…in Motion
Oct 2 Kauai…Highly Recommended (if you have the means)
Sep 21 My Four-Letter Addiction…
Sep 21 10 Years Ago Today
Sep 20 Lone Star Software Symposium Thoughts…
Sep 20 Aging…
Aug 31 Valet Parking
Aug 25 Chic-Fil-A and Ketchup…
Aug 25 Better than the Super Bowl…
Aug 24 Olympic Boredom
Aug 21 Why I like NASCAR
Aug 21 Hooray for Spring!
Aug 19 Stylish Programming
Aug 19 Send Me A Business Idea…Please
Aug 19 iPod vs. Tivo
Aug 19 I am a Thief…
Aug 19 Hypothetical #1
Aug 18 And the Meek shall inherit the Company
Aug 16 Where are the Wonder Twins?
Aug 16 What if you don’t believe in your Project?
Aug 15 Does Outsourcing Work?
Aug 15 Aliens vs. Predator — A Blast from the Past
Jul 23 NAVY Seals meets IT meets eBay
Jun 29 Inappropriate Feedback Design…
Jun 24 Corduroy is life
Jun 23 I’m back…
Feb 14 Passion and Innovation
Feb 14 Norah Jones has a new CD
Feb 14 Mach 3 or Quattro?
Jan 11 Best NFL Playoff Weekend Ever?
Jan 9 Dallas Stars fan on Mars
Jan 6 Good Books!

2003

Dec 30 Partying with the Parents
Dec 25 Sub-Optimal Thinking
Dec 24 Driving Home for the Holidays — NASCAR in December?
Dec 23 They Paved Paradise…
Dec 19 Greetings to thee!
Dec 19 Disempowered…