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AI
- Sep 2026 Better to be the chooser AI
Culture
- Feb 2008 Stephen Colbert teaches Sunday School!
- Jun 2007 Discovering The Colbert Report
- Mar 2006 Grizzly Man
- Sep 2005 “Lost” did not disappoint…
- Sep 2005 “Lost” Returns
- Sep 2005 5 Blades!
- Sep 2005 What was Samuel L. Jackson reading?
- Sep 2005 Music Tie-Ins with Hurrican Katrina
- Sep 2005 If Pei Wei were a website…
- Apr 2005 Lost: Stranded with no new Episodes
- Apr 2005 Lost — the TV show
- Aug 2004 Where are the Wonder Twins?
- Aug 2004 Aliens vs. Predator — A Blast from the Past
- Feb 2004 Norah Jones has a new CD
- Jan 2004 Good Books!
Engineering
- Aug 2026 The system that paid for itself AIHuman
- Aug 2026 More Capacity, More Waiting LinkedIn ↗
- Jan 2026 Code Was Never the Asset: A Proof-of-Concept for AI-Era Architecture LinkedIn ↗
- Nov 2025 Producing Solutions with AI LinkedIn ↗
- Aug 2025 2,886 Commits in a Year: Why Senior Engineers Could Have Their Best Year Ever LinkedIn ↗
- Oct 2006 iPod in your Car?
- Jun 2006 RadRails vs. Textmate
- Jun 2006 Scammers on eBay
- Jun 2006 Repurposing the old iPod
- Jun 2006 Why no SSL?
- Jan 2006 Denver Rails Studio Review
- Jan 2006 Denver Rails Studio Miscellaneous Notes
- Sep 2005 Google is Everywhere?
- Sep 2005 Weblog Redesign?
- Sep 2005 Embrace the Swarm
- Sep 2005 New Rules for the New Economy — 7 Years Later
- Sep 2005 If Pei Wei were a website…
- Oct 2004 My Valuation is $1,632.35
- Sep 2004 Lone Star Software Symposium Thoughts…
- Aug 2004 Stylish Programming
- Aug 2004 iPod vs. Tivo
- Aug 2004 Does Outsourcing Work?
- Jul 2004 NAVY Seals meets IT meets eBay
Leadership
- Aug 2026 How I think about offshore teams AI
- Apr 2026 What Agent Onboarding Actually Looks Like (A Practical Walkthrough) LinkedIn ↗
- Apr 2026 The Management Gap Nobody's Talking About LinkedIn ↗
- Dec 2005 Job Interviews should be Auditions
- Sep 2005 The Small Team / Company Argument
- Aug 2004 And the Meek shall inherit the Company
- Aug 2004 What if you don’t believe in your Project?
- Jun 2004 Inappropriate Feedback Design…
- Feb 2004 Passion and Innovation
- Dec 2003 Disempowered…
Life
- Sep 2026 Back in if you must, but hurry
- Sep 2026 Recently on the Morning Walk
- Aug 2026 The ad was the spec
- Aug 2026 Hello (again) World!
- Jan 2026 One Man Submarine Ride LinkedIn ↗
- Jul 2008 The Lookout
- Feb 2008 Quarterly Update
- Nov 2007 Does anyone still read this?
- Oct 2007 Travel advisory for Buffalo…
- Jun 2007 Enjoying Life on the DirecTV “A-List”
- Jun 2007 Touring the Pearl Harbor Memorial
- May 2007 Suzanne & Handbags…
- May 2007 A River House
- May 2007 Times Like These…
- May 2007 We’re Unemployed!
- Mar 2007 Mending Fences (Not)
- Mar 2007 Sweet Sixteen!
- Feb 2007 Couples Training…
- Dec 2006 Christmas Kitty
- Dec 2006 UCLA defeats A&M; Too many mistakes
- Dec 2006 LSU defeats A&M; UCLA awaits…
- Dec 2006 Progress Report: 1 month with a Personal Trainer
- Nov 2006 While you weren’t looking…
- Nov 2006 No joy…
- Nov 2006 In Training
- Oct 2006 Weekend in Gruene
- Jul 2006 Forgive me Father for I have sinned…
- Jun 2006 When is a gift not a gift?
- Jun 2006 Work Rewards, but…
- Jun 2006 From Buzz to Fizzle…
- Jun 2006 Picture Framing
- Jun 2006 I’m Cybersquatting!
- Jun 2006 Are you kidding me? The Saturn Sky.
- May 2006 Reintegrating…
- May 2006 Paydirt!
- May 2006 Rain Continues…
- May 2006 Wednesday Review
- May 2006 Flickr Pics
- Apr 2006 Tax Troubles
- Apr 2006 Jury Duty…
- Mar 2006 In a funk at work…
- Mar 2006 Who can beat them?
- Mar 2006 Lowe’s Customer (Un)service
- Mar 2006 King of the Rain
- Mar 2006 Stay Sober in Irving Bars!
- Mar 2006 CBS needs to get a clue
- Mar 2006 More things I wonder about…
- Mar 2006 The Four-Way Stop
- Mar 2006 Playing the game of Life
- Feb 2006 You know you work in Corporate IT when…
- Feb 2006 Compass Bank Sucks
- Feb 2006 Unfortunate Car Trouble…
- Feb 2006 Things I wonder about…
- Feb 2006 Lowe’s and Home Depot Frustrations
- Dec 2005 Our Christmas Tree
- Dec 2005 Christmas Gifts…
- Nov 2005 Miscellaneous Stuff
- Nov 2005 Thanksgiving Review
- Oct 2005 Everything Zen…
- Oct 2005 SOA 2.0…
- Oct 2005 Green with envy…
- Oct 2005 More Bathroom Humor…
- Sep 2005 Dental Phobia
- Sep 2005 Sign of the times…
- Sep 2005 Happy as a clam?!
- Sep 2005 Chic-Fil-A’s domain name
- Sep 2005 Bathroom Behavior…
- Sep 2005 Think Big, Act Small
- Aug 2005 Hitched!
- Aug 2005 Marital Bliss Awaits…
- Jun 2005 News about my Side-Venture
- May 2005 Dealerships Suck II
- Apr 2005 Dealerships Suck…
- Apr 2005 Remembering Granny Panny…
- Apr 2005 If you could live forever…
- Apr 2005 You might be an ass if…
- Apr 2005 Shoe Laces…
- Apr 2005 Getting Married…
- Nov 2004 Let me get this straight…
- Nov 2004 Election Fallout
- Sep 2004 My Four-Letter Addiction…
- Sep 2004 10 Years Ago Today
- Sep 2004 Aging…
- Aug 2004 Valet Parking
- Aug 2004 Chic-Fil-A and Ketchup…
- Aug 2004 Hooray for Spring!
- Aug 2004 Send Me A Business Idea…Please
- Aug 2004 I am a Thief…
- Aug 2004 Hypothetical #1
- Jun 2004 Corduroy is life
- Jun 2004 I’m back…
- Feb 2004 Mach 3 or Quattro?
- Dec 2003 Partying with the Parents
- Dec 2003 Sub-Optimal Thinking
- Dec 2003 Greetings to thee!
Sports
- Oct 2007 Fire Coach Fran…
- Jun 2007 Play Ball, Aggies!
- May 2007 Aggies at the Beach
- Mar 2007 Aggies Ousted; Please Billy, don’t go!
- Feb 2007 First Aggie Win in Oklahoma since 1987
- Feb 2007 Aggies: The Bests Keep Coming
- Jan 2007 Aggies to #6; Lose to Tech
- Dec 2006 Big Week for Aggie Fans…
- Nov 2006 Aggies 12, Longhorns 7
- Nov 2006 Coach Fran Must Go!
- Jun 2006 Dwyane Wade and the NBA
- Jun 2006 NBA Finals Game 6 Awaits
- Jun 2006 Mavs Lose; Conspiracy?
- Jun 2006 Conspiracy Continues; Mavs Win Again
- Jun 2006 NBA Conspiracy — Myth Busted
- May 2006 Mavs Win!
- Mar 2006 Aggies better than Duke?
- Mar 2006 Aggies Win!
- Mar 2006 Aggie Basketball is Back!
- Jan 2006 An Aggie’s Dilemna
- Oct 2005 Aggie Vindication…
- Oct 2005 Hats off to the NHL…
- Sep 2005 The New NHL
- Aug 2004 Better than the Super Bowl…
- Aug 2004 Olympic Boredom
- Aug 2004 Why I like NASCAR
- Jan 2004 Best NFL Playoff Weekend Ever?
- Jan 2004 Dallas Stars fan on Mars
- Dec 2003 Driving Home for the Holidays — NASCAR in December?
Travel
- Jun 2008 Back to Kauai
- Jun 2008 The Road to Hana
- Jun 2008 He’s Blogging, He Must Be in Hawaii
- Oct 2007 Not Maui
- May 2007 Aggies at the Beach
- May 2007 Our Kauai Restaurant Review
- May 2007 Hiking the Kalalau Trail
- May 2007 Dinner on the Beach
- May 2007 Dining out in Kauai
- Oct 2006 Riviera Maya
- Jun 2006 Keeping the Vacation Buzz…
- May 2006 Hiking Honopu Ridge
- May 2006 Secret Beach
- May 2006 Kayaking Hanalei River
- May 2006 Enough beach for you?
- May 2006 Return to Kauai
- Apr 2006 The Healing Power of the Island
- Mar 2006 Tragedy in Kauai
- Feb 2006 Living in Kauai
- Dec 2005 Wishing for the Beach…
- Nov 2005 Windows to Kauai
- Apr 2005 Kuraoka House in Kauai
- Oct 2004 Kauai…in Motion
- Oct 2004 Kauai…Highly Recommended (if you have the means)
- Dec 2003 They Paved Paradise…