So, I’ve now been at my new workplace (opensourceriskmanagement) for a week.  Well, not quite.  I was only *there* (in Durham) for 2.5 days last week.  Since last Wednesday evening, I’ve been in San Jose, CA, attending meetings with current and prospective clients, and doing code audits.  My Black Duck experience today was less than [...]

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There comes a time when you move on from one work environment to the next.  I recently had that time come, and I accepted a position with Open Source Risk Management.  This was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make careerwise, for a number of reasons.  On the practical side, it’s a much [...]

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UGC - User Generated Content - has been all the rage the last year or so.  Actually, it’s been the rage since probably 1996 or 97 or whenever GeoCities made it easier to have URLs with the word “TheTropics” in them with homages to pets rendered on animated rainbow GIF backgrounds.  However, big media and [...]

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There was a lot of hoo-ha last week about Circuit City laying off 3400 employees.  I found a local paper from EMU had a story about it as well, which gives a SE Michigan perspective ($10 is a ‘living wage’ in Ann Arbor, apparently).  And this morning driving back from Chicago there was a radio [...]

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I’m sure this isn’t a terribly *new* idea, but I’m not seeing any big names getting in to this. Given all the social networks that have exploded which simply focus on interests (flixter) or geography (facebook), giving people ’social networking’ tools to help communicate about their health and medical issues seems like a much [...]

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I just finished the audio book version of “The Little Book That Beats The Market” from Joel Greenblatt.  It certainly sounds compelling, and I’m interested in trying it out.  As opposed to ‘trading’ strategies, which you can usually verify within a few days or weeks at most, this is a moderately long term approach, taking [...]

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Was just thinking a bit ago that ‘digg’ is  all about user generated content, yet it’s all submitted via the ‘digg’ links and such.  A little hokey since anyone can submit anything in to the queue of ‘upcoming’ stories to get voted on.  Why not bypass the submission process and just focus on voting?  Take [...]

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I had an idea last night while eating at Twisted Fork.  The idea was to have a restaurant bring you food that looks like leftovers.  Bread that *looks* half-eaten (but wouldn’t be, just cut with a cool knife that has teeth marks in it, etc).  The food could all be served in styrofoam takeaway containers.  [...]

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A friend of mine at work recently opened a homemade dog treat operation.  She just had her first customer last night, and is mighty excited.  If you’re interested in fantastic dog treats, definitely check out The Health Mutt.  I’m not a dog, so I can’t vouch for the taste, but our boss’ dog apparently approves, [...]

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A friend of mine at work recently opened a homemade dog treat operation.  She just had her first customer last night, and is mighty excited.  If you’re interested in fantastic dog treats, definitely check out The Health Mutt.  I’m not a dog, so I can’t vouch for the taste, but our boss’ dog apparently approves, [...]

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