Twelve years ago, I published The Art of ‘Ware, a reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War as applied to developing and marketing technology. I am now working on updating it and have the entire work-in-progress posted here on the blog (see the ‘Pages’ section in the right-hand column). I am particularly interested in [...]
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I’ve given up on reddit and Digg as both largely been hijacked by groups of political activists (ok, I’ll be honest, groups of barking moonbats) and folks posting “the most amazing photo ever”. In the meantime, Guy Kawasaki has started up Truemors, which seems to avoid both annoyances. Check it out. ..bruce..
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The Washington Times issued a challenge that so far nobody has met — and contrasts it with an earlier generation:
We had challenged readers to name one modern American celebrity, apart from the late football star Pat Tillman, who served or fought for his or her country in the past 15 years. Nobody could name a [...]
My father and both of my grandfathers served in World War II. Dad survived Pearl Harbor, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the invasion of Guam, as well as two tours of duty in Vietnam some 25 years later. My son Jon, my father’s namesake, now serves our country in the USMC and may deploy [...]
The National Association of Realtors published figures for existing home sales for April today.
Existing home sales fell in April
The median price of a home fell to $220,900, an 0.8 percent fall from the midpoint selling price a year ago. It marked the ninth straight decline in the median price.
Comparing the national sales median price, $220,900. [...]
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I can thank my old friend and, at the time, fellow BYU computer science undergrad Mark Savon for setting me on the path of having seen every Star Wars film on opening day. Mark told me about this nifty new movie that was coming out, Star Wars, and suggested we double-date (with our wives) to [...]
…is that he was interviewed by BusinessWeek.com, which has now written up the OSG Hardtack website:
Finally, I promised earlier that I’d explain why OSG built this site — since my first question upon finding this site was, “Who are these guys and why did they create this?” One of OSG’s specialties is designing systems for [...]
National single family home inventory just went over 1.9 Million over on the Hardtack experiment
For a while a few weeks ago it looked like the inventory rocket was leveling out, but in reality it was taking a short breather before climbing ever higher. I have no idea when this will slow down, but [...]
Our house faces Pikes Peak, some 50 miles to the south, so I can personally attest as to the significant amount of snow on it as we approach June. But here’s the article:
Last May, Teresa Taylor was watching climbers pad up to the summit of Pikes Peak in shorts and sneakers. This year, she’s warning [...]
Content Based Integration – Upcoming IT Revolution
As I have mentioned frequently on this site, I have been actively researching, developing and delivering a new approach to solving some of the common problems in running business. We have given the name Boomerang to this technology, and it revolves around the notion of what is coming to be known as “Content Based [...]
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