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Erika and I drove up to Michigan this weekend and started moving into our family’s house on White Lake near where I grew up.  I went to high school near here, and I’m pretty familiar with the rough winters.  On our drive up, we drove through freezing rain and snow - Erika’s first time behind [...]

Want to meet your mostest favoritest Houston tweeps and talk trash about your leastest favoritest ones?  Coffee Groundz in Midtown is hosting a Twitter party on Sunday, November 2nd from 2pm to 6pm.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or on BrightKite know that I’m here all the time - I’m typing this from [...]

One of the sweet things about telecommuting is the ability to pack up the tents and head off to a new location for a while.  Erika’s never seen a real winter, so we’re moving up to my hometown of Whitehall, Michigan.  We’re staying in the Colby State Park - not a real state park, of [...]

Several years ago when I telecommuted full time for Unifocus, I had an office in their Dallas offices and I’d go there maybe one week per month.  I wanted it to feel like home when I was there - I hate naked offices - so I put in a couple of my chess sets, vacation [...]

(I’ve wanted to write this for a couple of years, and I finally banged it out on a flight.  This has nothing to do with my work at Quest Software - instead, it’s just a general howdy-doody to people who haven’t worked around GTD’ers before.)
Hi.  I work differently than other people you may have worked [...]

I’m really good at searching the web.
Seriously.  Sooner or later, IT people who work around me start bringing me questions they’ve been unable to answer on the internet, and I can usually get the solution within one or two searches.  I’ll write an article about my techniques one of these days, because everybody in IT [...]

In May, I leased the first desk at the Caroline Collective, a new coworking space near downtown Houston.
Today, I moved my stuff back out.
I left because of something simple: I need too much “stuff” to do my job.  In order to do my job, I use a few pieces of bulky technology gear like a [...]

Today, women everywhere should be proud.  Women should stand up and cheer for the way they’ve made history, the way they’ve changed the system.  Our local paper, the Houston Chronicle, did an excellent job of summing up this important day by dedicating an image to it on the front page of their site:

Ugh.  The online [...]

I opened the company intranet this morning and got a surprise - I’m featured front and center.  Looks like I’m going to have to change my browser’s home page for the next couple of weeks, because I can’t face this first thing in the morning without coffee.
When I first started at Quest Software, I did [...]

I had a photo shoot yesterday by Tracy Manford to get some new head shots for presentations and whatnot, and I’m absolutely thrilled with how they came out.  Hopefully you, dear reader, have never seen me before, because her photos make me look gooood.  I’ll write more about this later (I’m on a short trip [...]