Powerful practices of effective ministry http://ping.fm/eN2mm

“We know He is faithful and don't doubt for a minute that He is in control,” “We are so thankful for the hope we have in Christ.” http://ping.fm/Nws3s

Interesting perspective on the contrast between tradition and popular culture: http://ping.fm/GgHWg

Have you seen this? The Greenback Effect By WARREN E. BUFFETT http://ping.fm/I3Emh

Andy Stanley 5 part podcast LO$T Today millions ... are lost financially. Could you be one of them? http://ping.fm/OgLEo

Great messages by Andy Stanley of #NorthPoint It Came From Within. Guilt-I owe me, Anger-You owe me, Greed-I owe me, Jealousy-God owe's me

SharePoint SEO

SharePoint SEO: "you already have a world-class search engine, the ability to blog and create wikis and discussion boards and perform content targeting.� You already have email based alert notifications, and RSS capabilities.� You have an industry leading workflow platform, multilingual site capabilities, and content retention policies, full blown Document and Record Management and a fully baked Content Management System which is extremely easy for authors to use!� Not to mention the speed of innovation for SharePoint is like no other software product to date.� Not only is Microsoft (worth mentioning happens to be the largest software manufacture in the world) moving SharePoint forward, you can also turn to thousands of other companies who are ALSO pressing onward by constantly releasing SharePoint add-on components, features and enhancements."

"Gladwell goes on to suggest that perhaps the Ivy League resembles a modeling agency more than it does The Marine Corps. But rather than take on that debate here and now, let’s instead focus on the objective of making online education improve anyone with the interest to learn — that is, on treatment effects."

XAML Overview

XAML Overview: "This topic describes the features of the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) language and demonstrates how you can use XAML to write Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications."

Ballmer’s Advice for CIOs � Candid CIO

Ballmer’s Advice for CIOs � Candid CIO: "Ballmer had a number of suggestions, but two stuck with me as being most enlightening.
Firstly, he said that CEOs are frustrated that they have invested so much moneyin IT yet they have little additional insight into their business.� He hears this often.� He did not want to characterize this as business intelligence or push any technical solution.� He shared that even Microsoft with all of their IT expertise does not have data about their total headcount – a revelation that gave me a sense of relief.� He also said that he has a rule for his CFO, never give him data in a format that he cannot manipulate, preferably it would be a pivot table.
Ballmer also suggested that the future of enterprise IT can be found in the consumer arena today.� This was the case with cloud computing and is likely to be the case in such areas as social networking.� As IT professionals we should keep an eye on that space.� It is our crystal ball.� I loved that insight."

Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance � Candid CIO

Social Media Policy and Employee Guidance � Candid CIO: "we have a huge opportunity for employers to turn all of their employees into uber-effective marketers that promote every new and worthy aspect of our services with far more credibility than corporate voice advertising.�"

HOW TO: Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications

HOW TO: Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications: "Click on the “Notifications” button at the bottom right corner in Facebook. Click on “See All.” On the right, you’ll see a long list of every application that sends you notifications, and you can turn them off by unchecking them. Be careful, Facebook’s own applications which are probably useful to you, such as feed comments, are also on the list, so you’ll probably want to leave them checked."

Basement.org: Why Do We Love Rounded Corners? The Answer!

Basement.org: Why Do We Love Rounded Corners? The Answer!: "A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort than for example an ellipse of the same size. Our “fovea-eye” is even faster in recording a circle. Edges involve additional neuronal image tools. The process is therefore slowed down.”

Professor N�nni is saying that rounded rectangles are literally easier on the eye. Put another way, compared to square-edged rectangles, rounded rectangles are more computationally efficient for the human brain. To me, this is a revelation. An idea that at the very least demands more investigation."

Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. http://ping.fm/RG8ws

Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming

Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming: "Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

Welcome to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference�[SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference]

Welcome to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference�[SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference]: "This reference contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer."

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search: "Summary: Learn how to write SQL syntax queries to return the most relevant results for Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (4 printed pages)"

Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Best Practices: Developing Content Types in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Summary: Learn best practices to develop, deploy, and manage custom content types using Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008, and scenarios for making updates to existing content types in lists. (13 printed pages)"

Microsoft Showcase: SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to Receive E-Mail

Microsoft Showcase: SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to Receive E-Mail: "By configuring your Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail messages, you can enable team members to use e-mail to send information, messages, and files directly to different areas of the site. Watch this demo to learn how integrating e-mail can make it easier for your team to communicate."

Dynamically Show/Hide Multiple Web Parts | End User SharePoint

Dynamically Show/Hide Multiple Web Parts | End User SharePoint: "Bryon Wyly writes Codeless Solutions for SharePoint. In this article he’s written a really fun script, demonstrating how to show or hide multiple lists and web parts. It’s like a magic trick - now you see it, now you don’t. And the solution is very easy. Thanks Bryon!"

Create Dynamic Bar and Pie Charts in WSS with any RSS feed: No code required | End User SharePoint

Create Dynamic Bar and Pie Charts in WSS with any RSS feed: No code required | End User SharePoint: "When Ming Fung Yong saw the solution, he found another source of data for feeding the charts: RSS feeds. The charts below were created using the Google Charting API against a SharePoint RSS that is then displayed within a Content Editor Web Part. This is a no code, no assembly solution that can be implemented at the site level."

Project Fakebar: Improvising a Google Toolbar Substitute for Chrome�|�Technologizer

Project Fakebar: Improvising a Google Toolbar Substitute for Chrome�|�Technologizer: "I used two methods to rebuild the Toolbar’s functionality: plain old bookmarks and bookmarklets. The latter are neat bits of JavaScript that let a bookmark do more than just link to pages, and there are a bunch of Google-related ones available around the Web. I used several existing ones that do things similar to Toolbar functions."

Creating tabbed windows in Sharepoint with jQuery | Baris Wanschers

Creating tabbed windows in Sharepoint with jQuery Baris Wanschers: "Today I created a pretty cool interface to display news items. I'm so excited about it that I really would like to share this with you. My goal was to create a display window with three tabs. By clicking the second tab, the current tab will move to the background and the clicked one will be displayed. To see it working, check this jQuery tabs example, which helped me to get it working."

Zone Tabs for SharePoint - Home

Zone Tabs for SharePoint - Home: "As a code sample, ZoneTabs illustrates:
- Creating a ListView server control
- Creating a web part as a composite control
- Using cascading style sheets and images to render tabs
- Creating an editor part to provide custom configuration options
- Using the ASP.NET 2.0 API to manage and control web parts at runtime"

10 Minute Screencast: Create a tabbed, layered interface - no code required | End User SharePoint

10 Minute Screencast: Create a tabbed, layered interface - no code required End User SharePoint: "This screencast shows how simple a solution it is. Within 10 minutes, I am able to create a tabbed interface for managing workshop descriptions. Fun, easy and extremely impressive for your End Users. So impressive, in fact, they won’t even know it’s there."

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives | End User SharePoint

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives End User SharePoint: "Most blog engines allow you to display a list of blog posts grouped by month. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint blog sites do not give you that ability. Here is a simple solution on how to overcome that limitation."

EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List | End User SharePoint

EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List End User SharePoint: "Yes, it does allow you to assign items to individuals and groups and give them, what I like to call “suggested”, “Due Date” on its completion, but what if it takes them longer to complete the task? What if they have a large number of tasks assigned…how do you set up a decent view to display and prioritize them (overdue items, upcoming due dates, number of days left to complete, etc.)? How can you go back and audit their performance (Do they normally complete tasks on time?)?"

Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint - Part 2 (ScreenCast) | End User SharePoint

Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint - Part 2 (ScreenCast) End User SharePoint: "Create a SharePoint solution that will allow calendars in various locations in a SharePoint implementation to be aggregated into one, Master Calendar. The solution must use the Out-of-the-Box functionality provided by SharePoint, with no server programming."

Fun with Colors: The Color-Coded Calendar | End User SharePoint

Fun with Colors: The Color-Coded Calendar End User SharePoint: "After watching Mark Miller’s Screen-Cast, Color Code a SharePoint Calendar, I realized this was the perfect solution for transforming a payroll schedule on an Excel spreadsheet into a SharePoint Calendar to make it more visually appealing and user-friendly."

EndUserSharePoint.com: Email and SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1 | End User SharePoint

EndUserSharePoint.com: Email and SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1 End User SharePoint: "This article shows that SharePoint Designer enables us to send emails with dynamic subjects and dynamic bodies via the “build dynamic string” action."

Use freedom unselfishly. 'WWJD' - about healthcare reform? http://ping.fm/PQxCT

Of course! Huckabee: 2 States in Holy Land 'Unrealistic' http://ping.fm/jDLZX

Today is my first day as a PerotSystems employee @Owens & Minor!

is celebrating 35 yrs of marriage to the most wonderful woman on the planet!

Danny Wahlquist Home Page (http://ping.fm/qjGPx)

Testing out http://ping.fm/3j6iV

North Point Online (http://ping.fm/TVx5k)

Really powerful - Backup and Search Your Friends' Tweets with Google Reader http://ping.fm/IugBM

John - The Gospel of Glory and Grace by Sparky Pritchard at p://www.immanuelbaptist.org/components/com_sermonspeaker/media/20090809am.mp3

What a truth: "At the root of all discipline is the disciplined use of time. Without this one, there are no other disciplines." Don Whitney

enjoyed WALKING through the Charleston Market with my bride of almost 35 years!

A Revolution of Compassion: One of my heroes died this week http://ping.fm/qIc6n

enjoyed 8 #AndyStanley #Northpoint messages while driving today. Sure glad he tries to get to one memorable point in each :-)

Great potential:FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request http://ping.fm/OjE7D

is encouraged seeing the Danny & Joan Ilagan disciple Tim & Emily. It didn't hurt that one of Danny's passages was my favorite, Eph 4:29 :-)

We are "50 percent dechurched-people who grew up in church but quit going because the church ceased to be relevant for them." Mark Batterson

Hallelujah! I got a call from HR, and my job offer is finally approved!

is ready for #IBC softball champs at Westhampton at 7!

The twins want to be the Big Kahuna from Baby Geniuses 2. I think we are in trouble :-)

Great communion service at IBC-Boast only in the Lord,1Cor1&Jer9:23 & worship song "The Power of the Cross" by Gettys http://ping.fm/U3EnI

August 1, a great day for a first sunburn of the year :-)

Quotes: The Founders As Christians, A collection of quotes from the Founding Fathers.
www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=78

Enjoying David Barton of #Wallbuilders http://ping.fm/vs7Yp on #Huckabee What a heritage we have in this nation!

Andy Stanley is betting the farm on doubling groups http://ping.fm/Tusfo Great summary of Northpoint groups.

I believe I will have more kingdom impact with the 10 people that meet in my home on Monday night than I will with the thousands-AndyStanley

enjoyed one of God's simple joys tonight. taking grandkids to the pool for "cabinballs". They are fish.

We have a new 10 lbs and 10 oz, 22 in long grandbaby, or maybe I should say grandson, he seems to have skipped newborn :-)

"'teaching them to do all things whatsoever I have commanded you' the Great Omission from the Great Commission" Dallas Willard from http://ping.fm/DVexy

"to think that following Jesus consists of loving our enemies...while living the rest of our lives just as everyone around us" DallasWillard

"Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting, as it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton

Glory of a Heart Fully Alive - Conventional Wisdom, Truth & Transformational Understanding from Waking the Dead by John Eldredge http://ping.fm/k61Nf

How much of what I do is from duty versus delight? Maturity causes me to focus on what God makes me passionate about.

Ready to go to Avalon for the 3rd time this summer! http://ping.fm/VFwVp

I must die daily to live, and walk in formation as to war in the Spirit. from Sparky's message on Gal 5:22-25 http://ping.fm/jGCrb

"wisdom is not cramming our heads with principles. It is developing a discerning heart." John Eldredge - Waking the Dead

"You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart." John Eldredge-WakingDead

The life Christianity is trying to explain: Fate Has Chosen Him. A Fellowship Will Protect Him. Evil Will Hunt Him. http://ping.fm/FQAAz

3 Eternal Truths, things are not what they seem, this is a world at war, we have a crucial role to play. Waking the Dead by John Eldredge

2 Worldviews, Man or God at the center, man is good or man is evil, Can knowledge solve all our problems? Character-Huckabee http://ping.fm/jsOzP

For baby fans everywhere: Evian Roller Babies Video http://ping.fm/kjgd1

BROWN - Surname Meaning | Origin for the Surname Brown Genealogy

BROWN - Surname Meaning | Origin for the Surname Brown Genealogy: "Brown is generally a descriptive surname (nickname) referring to the color of the individual's complexion, color of hair, or garments, from the Middle English br(o)un, from Old English or Old French brun, meaning 'brown.' As a Scottish or Irish name, Brown may also be a translation of the Gaelic donn for 'brown.'"

"Doing more with less will be a major focus over the next few years.
Combined with creating solutions in uncertain times, low cost, rapid development of productivity enhancing solutions will be in great demand. Make sure you're ready to do so and leverage the abilities of the people you serve in the process."

from http://www.fmsinc.com/tpapers/budgets/ApplicationDevelopment.html

Now Facebook Wants to Own Your Email

Now Facebook Wants to Own Your Email: "As we continue to make Facebook more useful for everyone, these changes mean that there’s no need to switch between Facebook and email for your daily communication needs. In plain english: we want to own the webmail space (they even add that one of their engineers will never use regular email again, thanks to the feature)."

Johanna Rothman: Are We There Yet? Creating Project Dashboards to Display Project Progress

Johanna Rothman: Are We There Yet? Creating Project Dashboards to Display Project Progress: "To keep my finger on the pulse of a project, I monitor several measurements:
Schedule estimates and actuals, aside from EQF
When people (with the appropriate capabilities) are assigned to the project versus when they are needed
Requirements changes throughout the project
Fault feedback ratio throughout the project
Cost to fix a defect throughout the project
Defect find/close/remaining open rates throughout the project"

 

Danny and his girls in New York!

 
Oscar looks lonely

Posted from Windows Live Writer!

Posted from Windows Live Writer!

O'Reilly Radar > Deconstructing Databases#comments

O'Reilly Radar > Deconstructing Databases#comments: "Just as a for instance, how many of you still put your email in folders, vs. just saving by month or year, and using search to find what you want? How many of you find it easier to tag a bookmark and put it on del.icio.us than to save it in a folder?"

Geeking with Greg: First, kill all the managers

Geeking with Greg: First, kill all the managers: "Google has almost no management. In 2003, managers were at the director level or higher and had 50 or so reports. More managers have been added since then, but I believe that 20+ reports is the norm.

Program management is done in a separate organization. The PMs have no power over the engineers, not even an appeal to engineering managers, since there are none. The PMs try to bring order to the chaos, but they must do so by convincing people, not by commanding them.

Mentoring is done by other engineers. People learn by doing. You want people to dive into the code and learn from those who are closest to the problem.

Parts of the vision emerge from everywhere, brought together, clarified, and unified by the few managers that exist. Despite a few people wandering up other peaks, most are guided up the same hill.

Communication is direct through informal networks, not through the management hierarchy. Transparency and pressure from peers provide for accountability and limit free riding.

Titles are unimportant. A 'software engineer' could be a former tenured professor or a recent college graduate. A 'program manager' could be a former CTO.

To imitate Google, it is important to realize that there is more to do here than just suddenly sending your middle managers out to sleep with the fishes.

Tasks often done by managers need to be moved out of a management hierarchy. Informal networks and a culture of transparency need to be encouraged. Hierarchies must be destroyed, titles made irrelevant, and compensation and rewards redesigned."

Has the Family Tomb of Jesus Been Found?

"The presentation on Sunday is called “Has the Family Tomb of Jesus Been Found?” This is certainly to be discussed at the water coolers on Monday. And you as a Christian should be ready with some reasoned questions of your own (asked in the right spirit). So join me for this special message in our series on Tough Questions – Honest Answers. And please pray for wisdom and insight for me as I prepare."
from http://www.immanuelbaptist.org/

Amazing Grace movie trailer

Can't wait to see this!

Creating Passionate Users: Getting/Staying Organized: my Moleskine PDA

Creating Passionate Users: Getting/Staying Organized: my Moleskine PDA: "Organization comes unnaturally to me. I've experimented with almost everything, both electronic (Palm Pilot, various software apps), and plain old paper. So far, the one that's helped me the most is my low-tech, high-use Moleskine PDA. Supplies include a pen, a notebook, post-it tabs, and some (optional) 3 x 5 cards."

Two Screens Are Better Than One

Two Screens Are Better Than One: "The researchers conducted user studies that proved the effectiveness of adding a second or even third monitor to your workstation, creating a wide-screen effect. In addition, they found out how the operating system needs to change to accommodate a larger screen area. "

Getting MarkDown and SmartyPants working with EditPad Pro - Joel on Software

Getting MarkDown and SmartyPants working with EditPad Pro - Joel on Software: "MarkDown is a simple processor that converts text to HTML. For example, it converts *text surrounded by asterisks* to italics.
SmartyPants replaces 'straight quotes' with “curly quotes” and makes a few other typographic improvements.
EditPad Pro is a very respectable text editor for Windows. It’s fast and contains scrillions of useful features. It’s not the fanciest thing in the world, but if you’re still using Notepad for the occasional bits of text, it’s a fine drop-in replacement.
Here’s what it takes to get them all working together on a typical Windows setup:"

The Phone Screen - Joel on Software

The Phone Screen - Joel on Software: "The bottom line in my interviewing technique is that smart people can generally tell if they’re talking to other smart people by having a conversation with them on a difficult or highly technical subject, and the interview question is really just a pretext to have a conversation on a difficult subject so that the interviewer’s judgment can form an opinion on whether this is a smart person or not."

The infinite music collection - Joel on Software

The infinite music collection - Joel on Software: "But laptops have lousy speakers, and I had been looking for a way to pump the music from the computer into other rooms of the house, so last January I finally got a Sonos system, which is probably the coolest piece of technology I've ever bought. Ever."

Using source control tools on huge projects - Joel on Software

Using source control tools on huge projects - Joel on Software: "When you're working with source control on a huge team, the best way to organize things is to create branches and sub-branches that correspond to your individual feature teams, down to a high level of granularity. If your tools support it, you can even have private branches for every developer. So they can check in as often as they want, only merging up when they feel that their code is stable. Your QA department owns the 'junction points' above each merge. That is, as soon as a developer merges their private branch with their team branch, QA gets to look at it and they only merge it up if it meets their quality bar."

» Vista-powered desktops, notebooks now on Dell site | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com

» Vista-powered desktops, notebooks now on Dell site IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband ZDNet.com: "What you are seeing up there is a grab of Dell letting you know they are now selling Vista-enabled PCs and notebooks. Final preparations are being made to formally activate the order process."

Seth's Blog: Clarifications

Seth's Blog: Clarifications: " In Small Is the New Big, I'm not saying that only small companies will thrive moving forward. Instead, I'm saying that any organization that acts small has an advantage over those that insist on acting big, regardless of size."

Seth's Blog: Yes Substitutions

Seth's Blog: Yes Substitutions: "There's a line out the door of the Pump every day at lunch. Why? Because people who love substitutions (the picky ones) go blocks out of their way to eat here. Is there anyone clamoring to get into the 'no substitutions' place?"

Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD Display Reviewed (Verdict: Nearly Perfect) - Gizmodo

Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD Display Reviewed (Verdict: Nearly Perfect) - Gizmodo: "The geeks at Digital Video Editing took a close look at the Dell 2407WFP 24' LCD display, and were pretty much blown away by how much widescreen monitor you can get for $799. Heck, for that price you can get two of them and stretch your video editing timeline from here to Palookaville."

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "To be an Identity Method manager, you have to summon all the social skills you have to make your employees identify with the goals of the organization, so that they are highly motivated, then you need to give them the information they need to steer in the right direction.To be an Identity Method manager, you have to summon all the social skills you have to make your employees identify with the goals of the organization, so that they are highly motivated, then you need to give them the information they need to steer in the right direction."

Zaky Infant Pillow: Child Neglect Accomplice - Gizmodo

Zaky Infant Pillow: Child Neglect Accomplice - Gizmodo: "We're sure none of the offspring of our brilliant Gizmodo reading audience would be fooled by The Zaky, an ergonomic pillow that simulates the weight, touch and feel of the hands of a caring parent. But this is such a cute picture nonetheless, we couldn't resist showing it to you. Aww."

O'Reilly Radar > Open Communities vs. Open Source

O'Reilly Radar > Open Communities vs. Open Source: "Dain made a really interesting distinction. We need to recognize, he pointed out, that open source doesn't guarantee open community. Some projects (JBoss was what he had in mind) are open source, but have a closed community, controlled by a corporate sponsor."

Seth's Blog: Marketers and money

Seth's Blog: Marketers and money: "First rule: great product development and marketing almost always comes from organizations that don't have enough money. Having less money keeps you from trying to buy your way out of trouble.
Second rule: learning to live with less money means you will develop skills and resources instead of buying them. And it means that when you have less money (again), you'll be prepared.
Third rule: When you need money for something specific, go get it. But just for that. With good terms. As soon as you spend money to protect your money or leverage your money or account for your money or send a message about your money, the money is not only wasted, it hurts you."

All Things Distributed: You Guard it with Your Life

All Things Distributed: You Guard it with Your Life: "I won't tell you exactly how we implement our schemes but to get to Amazon customer credit cards you will need a small army of Marines. Although recently we have been discussing to place physical and electronic booby-traps such that the servers will self-destruct when compromised, to deal with such full physically attack ...I won't tell you exactly how we implement our schemes but to get to Amazon customer credit cards you will need a small army of Marines. Although recently we have been discussing to place physical and electronic booby-traps such that the servers will self-destruct when compromised, to deal with such full physically attack ..."

I am a technical writer, and I am using FOSS | Free Software Magazine

I am a technical writer, and I am using FOSS | Free Software Magazine: "At MySQL, where I am a member of the documentation team, we use DocBook XML to build the documentation that you see on the website, or that’s available through the PDFs that can be downloaded. In fact, you can even download the XML source we use."

Slow Leadership: Time for Innovation

Slow Leadership: Time for Innovation: "To spark innovation,slow down, find the point of balance between need for results and space to think, and hold things there long enough to allow minds to work freely. Above all, reduce the pressure and level of distractions. No one can follow a creative idea and deal with constant phone calls, e-mails, demands for information and threats for not “meeting the numbers” at the same time. It’s a plain choice: more innovation or longer hours and greater short-term output. You cannot have both."

Jasbone :: Movies, Music and Technoloy

Jasbone :: Movies, Music and Technoloy: "You may be amazed that the leader in digital media in the home is Microsoft, as was I when I started this
journey toward digital media nirvana. Yes, there are a few down sides to all this (expense, the Music
interface in Media Center SUCKS - something I'm working on now with a Jinzora interface, time to get the entire system setup, time to rip all your content, etc) but in the end it is an incredibly powerful system that gives me on-demand access to all my media from all my interface points anytime I want it. Now it's time to actually go enjoy some of my media!You may be amazed that the leader in digital media in the home is Microsoft, as was I when I started this
journey toward digital media nirvana. Yes, there are a few down sides to all this (expense, the Music
interface in Media Center SUCKS - something I'm working on now with a Jinzora interface, time to get the entire system setup, time to rip all your content, etc) but in the end it is an incredibly powerful system that gives me on-demand access to all my media from all my interface points anytime I want it. Now it's time to actually go enjoy some of my media!"

ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog: "It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.)
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions."