Throughout my career I have worked with some extremely talented and intelligent developers. I have also, unfortunately, worked with some boneheaded developers who were barely able to create “Hello World” applications. I have worked with all kinds of developers. There are pure developers who have no skills at analysis. There are analysts who tinker enough to be considered programmers. There […]
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The Terrorists Have Won
September 12, 2011 
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I didn’t watch any of the memorial services yesterday. I didn’t tune into the radio and listen to the 9/11 commentary, ten years later. When I was on the elliptical machine at the gym last night, I kept my headphones in my MP3 player instead of watching the solemn and respectful services. I didn’t […]
Continue reading American Politicians Take Lessons from Internet Trolls
September 5, 2011 4 Comments
American politics are a mess. I have never been more disturbed and concerned about the future of our nation than I am right now. Our politics have never been more partisan. Our leaders have never been less willing to compromise. Grand gestures and impossible ideology have become more important than doing the right thing. Ad hominem attacks […]
Continue reading How a Video Game – Wii’s “Animal Crossing” – Helped me Cope with Cancer
August 6, 2011 4 Comments
I was home alone every day with a deadly disease ravaging my body and trying to take my life from me. My children were in school, my disabled parents were unable to visit me, my wife was at work – providing me the insurance that was saving my life, my brother was working every day, […]
Continue reading Don’t Blame Obama for the Credit Rating Drop
August 5, 2011 5 Comments
S&P dropped the U.S. credit rating today from AAA to AA+. This is a huge blow not only to US interest but to the global economy as a whole. The ramifications of this downgrade will be felt all around the world. According to S&P, the US medium-term debt reduction strategy isn’t enough and is a reason why […]
Continue reading Why StumbleUpon Paid Discovery Sucks
August 1, 2011 7 Comments
I love using StumbleUpon. You’ve seen the cartoons on the Internet where StumbleUpon kills productivity and is the anathema of sleep. I agree with it 100% – it’s addicting. You select your interests, press Stumble, and viola! A page relevant to you pops up. I wanted to drive Stumblers to this blog, so I tried […]
Continue reading Binary’s New Tattoo
July 30, 2011 2 Comments
I am a cancer survivor. In August 2008 I was diagnosed with Head and Neck cancer, and an incredible and grueling journey began. A journey that included surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, depression, fatigue, hopelessness, anger, despair, and a forced view of my mortality. It was also a journey of hope, love, compassion, understanding, and renewed vigor for life. When death […]
Continue reading The Scariest Words Revisited
July 30, 2011 0 Comments
When I first learned I had cancer, I started this blog. It has garnered enormous interest, tens of thousands of views, and many cancer fighters have expressed interest and gratitude for it. I was re-reading my blog today and realized that there are a lot of blanks in the diary – I left out things […]
Continue reading Suffer not a witch…
July 25, 2011 5 Comments
I grew up in a staunchly religious family; a Southern Baptist family to be exact. When I was about ten-years-old I was told that Satan was working through rock and roll bands and that rock and roll was filled with subliminal messaging. Subliminal messaging would turn our nation’s youth into devil-worshiping hooligans and imperil the very […]
Continue reading Very Rare STS-134 and STS-135 Space Shuttle Memorabilia
July 10, 2011 1 Comment
I’m extremely fortunate to be friends with a NASA engineer who works on the Shuttle engines. My buddy Eric is more of a NASA nut than I am. Eric understood the historic and significant nature of the last two space shuttle launches, and he was in a position to create very rare and very impressive […]
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