In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some time ago, I was on the circuit talking about Service Oriented Architecture and a roadmap for moving forward. Since then, we have had many false starts and hit many snags along the path. [...]

ITANA’s Constituent Group meeting was on Thursday at 4:55PM. Approximately 40 people attended the meeting. Many of the attendees were from newly formed architecture groups.
The notes from the meeting are posted on the ITANA.org web site: EDUCAUSE 2007 CG Meeting Notes

My slides are posted on the EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting Site: IT Architects Session
EDUCAUSE, ITANA, Jim [...]

The Gartner Group describes Enterprise Architecture as:

“The EA group will translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution.”

The statement that caught my eye was “models that describe the enterprise’s future state”. Keith and I [...]

These movies of air traffic flight patterns are making the rounds on the internet. They are really gorgeous and intriguing to watch. One of the cool things about movies like this or Hans Rosling’s work is the fact that they transform pretty boring data into beautiful moving pictures. These pictures let the [...]

From Treehuger.com
As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/in_copenhagens.php
Very cool news at least to me as a bike commuter.
One thing I like a lot is the special [...]

I’ve run into my first bug with Leopard. My Mac suddenly forgot it has Bluetooth hardware installed.
This looks like a know issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5676875&tstart=0
Hopefully, a fix will be out soon. Fortunately, Bluetooth isn’t critical to my daily life. I need to sync my phone occasionally is all.
Update: A reboot brought my bluetooth [...]

I’m now running Leopard on my MacBook Pro at work and on my G5 dual 2Ghz desktop at home. So far, everything has been glitch-less. I did have to set up my work printers again but that was it.
Certain things are much faster: loading the java based weather maps from Weather.gov [...]