UPDATE: June 25th. We now have 28 counties declared as disaster areas by FEMA.

When we get serious Spring weather, we get weather sites that look like this:

7 Warnings, Watches and Statements on the Weather.gov forecast
A weather map that is covered, jigsaw like, with areas of watches and warnings across the surrounding 25 counties. [...]

Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]

I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat [...]

Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments

Last Fall I bought a Gore Bike Wear Tool jacket that I just love. I cross-country skied in it all Winter. Biked in it all Fall and started up biking again this wintery Spring. It is rain proof enough for rainy rides home (5 miles). It is warm enough for cold [...]

Jason Uppal of Quickresponse gave a talk on Building Enterprise Architects at the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Summit. He mentioned that Toyota judges project success based on
three corporate objectives:
Profit from the Program
Market Share
Learning
These facets got me thinking about our post project reviews. We tend to measure our projects on whether or not [...]

Last night I ate dinner a local Japanese restaurant. I was walking from the hotel down to North Beach. It was nasty, windy, raining so I was thinking that maybe I should turn around and eat at the hotel. I went past this little Japanese restaurant - Hotaru (1059 Powell St, Google [...]

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. [...]

Lola and I went for a long walk down by New Glarus, WI on the Sugar River Trail. I took some pictures and made two into desktops. Note: The originals are really big. They are scaled for my 24″ monitor.

I was the emcee of of a 50th birthday party for a group of friends (11 people had 50th birthdays this year that we celebrated). This is my speech for the party.
These are your formative years - cohort of 57
1957: Your birth year
Everly Brothers Bye Bye Love & Wake up little suzzie are [...]