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Entries from September 2007

Smelling fresh asphalt (or repaving a PC)

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Lessons, Technology

Repaving - def. the computer-based act of reformatting the system partition followed by installing a fresh operating system followed by fresh application installations followed by user settings restoration
For starters, it’s a good idea to separate your data from your applications (e.g. C: has OS and software; D: has documents, pictures, music, videos, etc.). You [...]

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Everything Is Miscellaneous

September 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Content management, Ideas, Non-fiction

During my recent, reasonably long (and fully unplugged!) vacation, I was able to read David Weinberger’s latest work, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. I enjoyed this book every bit as much as I enjoyed reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
David begins by asking how our ideas, organizations, and knowledge itself might [...]

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Dogfooding 101

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Lessons, Technology

Whether you like to think of it as “eating your own dogfood” or “drinking your own champagne”, you may appreciate the following succinct expression of why doing so is vital to your enterprise:
You sell what you know.
You know what you use.
You use what you have access to.

To be clear, “sell” isn’t merely limited to the [...]

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Excellence in school design - MVROP

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Inspiration, Life

Time to brag about my brother again…

The new campus for the Mission Valley Regional Occupation Program is ready for its grand opening next month! Brent Randall was the senior designer and project architect on project from Loving & Campos Architects.

This looks like a great space in which to prepare for business, medical [...]

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