All social media from the early days of BBS and Unix News Groups and the rudimentary email (some of us remember cutting our teeth on VAX/VMS mail and VMS Notesfiles) all have a similar purpose to the oo wow things people are doing now on the web. Basically the VMS Phone utility was not dissimilar [...]
Reflections on the path…
So, I just spent a most of a week in Mountain View. I was sent here a member of a cadre of leaders-in-development at Intuit. I had an awesome time. It was a week of soul-searching, learning, collaborating and networking. I couldn’t go into everything I learned, but I can get into some of the [...]
A couple of new posts on the QuickBase Blog
Just wanted to point people to some new stuff on the QuickBase Blog. One of our team members did a poster session at New England Database Day
I also did a post on a little feature in my Quick and Dirty series that showed how to add color to a cell in a report.
Ethnic Mashups…A Mariachi Band Plays Armenian Traditional Dance Music…
I like ethnic mashups. Chinese guys who speak Armenian, Dr. Suess’ Grinch who stole Xmas in Latin, Umberto Eco poking fun at Jorge Luis Borges in “The Name of the Rose” by making the blind head of the Library. Here’s a new one. A Mariachi Band from America playing in Armenia, playing a typical line [...]
