Articles Archive for May 2007

Agility - it keeps me up at night
Posted in Academia, ITANA, Work on 30 May 2007

Our last CIO, Annie Stunden, used to talk about “what keeps her up at night”. These were the big intractable things or the big high-risk, highly visible projects she was working on. For me, it’s agility. How does an enterprise that prides itself on tradition and autonomy of everyone at every level become agile - [...]

El Clan Destino
Posted in Life in Madison, random stuff on 26 May 2007

Lola has a friend Liam who has an owner Jamie who is in a hot Afro-Cuban jazz band called El Clan Destino. They really cook. Head over to their web site and click on Listen. Check out El Rukus and Ponle La Clava live (if you like hot fusion jazz). Undine [...]

Happy Anniversary - from New York
Posted in Ena, Life in Madison, random stuff on 24 May 2007

I’m in New York at the Common Solutions Group meeting. So I had to do remote celebration for our fifth wedding anniversary. I called Ena this morning and guided her around the house to presents that I had hidden around the house. It was pretty entertaining to hear her searching for the [...]

The Ze Frank music show
Posted in General, Life in Madison on 17 May 2007

This is one of my favorite Ze Frank episodes. Though, it is a “final act” of sorts. The songs play off of the history of Ze Frank. You won’t get the humor unless you have watched a bunch of the previous episodes.
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/03/030808.html

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I miss Ze Frank. Ze did a year of short [...]