Today marked the second time I have seen a raptor snatch a dove from my back yard.

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Any American who has watched a few minutes of TV programming in the past couple of weeks has seen one of T. Boone Pickens’ time-for-big-change commercials. There are three TV spots out at this time. You can watch Pickens’ whiteboard presentation on his web site. I admit it. His direct speech and logic are appealing. [...]

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Recently uncloaked startup, Sunrgi, announced a new photovoltaic design that blends chipmaking approaches, nanotech heat-dissipation fluid, optics, and manufacturing expertise to produce energy at costs matching those of fossil fuels. Once the follow-on technology is completed, for converting the dissipated heat to electricity, this new design will out-compete fossil fuels. (The carbon-burning cartels are probably [...]

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Before I upgraded my Mac Pro to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I was surprised (shouldn’t have been) that I could not alter the contents of my NTFS-formated USB hard drive. I found MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for Mac OS, available free online, which brought my NTFS drive to full read-write functionality. The upgrade to Leopard returned [...]

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Discussions in the knowledge management community have increasingly questioned the validity of methodologies and technologies that purport to enable organizations to externalize and codify the tacit knowledge of experts. Dave Snowden (of Cognitive Edge) is a cognitive scientist who argues that KM efforts to systematically convert tacit to explicit knowledge have failed. Snowden does not [...]

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Any new enterprise initiative is highly vulnerable during its earliest stages. Established leaders tend to suspect interloping and potential loss of resources or relative clout. Workers at all levels — weary of an endless parade of shallow management campaigns and reorganizations — tend to view any new fanfare as a warning to brace for further disturbance and friction. An initiative such as KM, to have a chance of success, requires the devoted attention of at least one corporate-level implementer. In our case, I am that person.

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My friend and former colleague, Lily Kamikihara, was selected as one of 10 IT leaders for 2007, by Government Computer News. Way to go, Lily! I had the privilege of working with Lily from 2000 through 2003, in the Pacific Theater Telecommunications Policy Branch at Pacific Command headquarters at Camp Smith, Hawaii. Lily was a [...]

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Seth, Jess, and Chloe came through Albuquerque on their way to the Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma, just north of San Francisco. 20060921-NM-Seth-Jess-Chloe-Deb-Mark

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Late afternoon shower in Albuquerque It’s the so-called monsoon season in New Mexico. Prior to late July, Albuquerque had received much less than one inch of rain since the previous October. We received four inches in one day last week. Except for those who are flooded or washed out, we are very appreciative.

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Sassy (a 12.5-year-old brendled tortie) has taken to cuddling Deb’s old Toshiba notebook PC. Even though it is summer and was in the upper ’90s (F) outside, Sassy snuggled up to the heat exhaust vent. We are concerned that she may cause the CPU to overheat, but there is no way to keep her away [...]

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