Get up, dress up, show up, never give up… and be replaced by a robot
Never giving up at the things you were told to do was the essence of work in the industrial age. Giving up quickly on things...
Lightning talks, and not…
Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do...
AWS, AWS, and More AWS
It's been a summer of AWS for me....
Here’s some more bad dataviz
So, each of those numbers is approximatly 1/3 of the total, or so the slices of the pie would suggest?...
SCaLE 16x Open Data Presentation: not really happy
I got good feedback on the content if not the delivery, and some additional feedback about how to improve. So I think I'll rework it...
Catching up
2018 is looking busy, but there's still a lot left from 2017 that I didn't write about or wrap up....
Promo for my SCaLE 16x talk
A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much...
2017 Wrapup: Top Reads
I've been curating my social media, as I do at the end of every year. By "curating" I mostly mean "deleting annoying rants" but also...
Back from ODSC
Just back from ODSC, which is my first major business travel since the somewhat abortive New Zealand trip....
Algorithm fail? I use the word “Zealand” a lot
According to a word cloud of my Facebook timeline, I use the word "zealand" a lot. Or at least often enough to make the cut....