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Lots of thoughts, ramblings and stories / Many topics on my mind over the years!
A while back I wrote I am the sum of my parts which explains my many dimensions.
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A Busy June
Wow July 1, 2019. Is it only me, or the year is just flying by… Still very much adjusting to my Mom not being around. The weekly FaceTime calls, the laughs, the new suggestions on Netflix. Aside from her voice, I specially miss her likes on social media — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even the…
A week in my Life as an EUC Solutions Principal
As we detailed in the previous article, “The Solutions Principal Role” within Dell Technology Services involves: “… customer facing activities acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in their respective field. Their key responsibility is to assist services sales and account teams drive professional services through technical expertise, thought leadership, customer interaction and solution development….
Not Only About Ice Cream
Ice cream is great, but this article is not about that. It is about the place one goes to have a quick pause and enjoy a moment.
A Town Over 100 Years Old
According the City of North Bend, WA website, it was incorporated in March 12, 1909. Yep – this means that as of the time of this blog post I live in a town that is over 110 years old. – How cool is that! When I moved into North Bend, WA – strike that –…
Getting to SeaTac Airport?
I travel quite a bit, and ever since moving to North Bend about 6 years ago, I have driven the 35 miles from our town down to Seattle Internal Airport (specifically MasterPark Log G) at lease a few hundred miles. I typically drive drive there via I-90 and I-405 , but depending on traffic I…
My Role as a Solutions Principal
First NO that is not me! — Never had that much hair but I was young once 🙂 The Solutions Principals role within the Dell Technology Services team involves customer facing activities acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in their respective field. Their key responsibility is to assist services sales and account teams drive…
Thankful for 2018. Hello 2019!
Very thankful – Thank you 2018! Although this year work was intense with lots of pressure and travel, it was a fulfilling professional year. Learned a lot from the Podcasting and YouTube vlogs with a lot more still need to learn! I am especially grateful for the memories and quality family time with the family…
Clearing a Twitter Account
Recently I sold one of my old domains (see blog post here). A couple of days later, I realized that I also had the corresponding twitter handle as well, so I offered to transfer ( not a sale, just a transfer ). The buyer wanted it and he was stoked about it… Sidenote: Not a…
Domain Sale Experience – A Matter of Trust
Over the years I have collected a few domains which I no longer use. They were either names I liked and reserved, or projects that I started and ran to an end. I have let some expired, but others I have kept because something about the name I like and simply could not…
Launching a New Blog: ModernEUC.com
In my work I have a lot of conversations and do a lot presentations om the topic of Workspace Transformation, Modern Provisioning and Modern Device management. There is so much change in this field right now, that it is challenging for most enterprises. I have written a lot of articles on the impact…
Getting to Windows 10: Take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill
I always start my Windows 10 conversations with the statement, there are two parts to any Windows 10 project: Getting to Windows 10. Maintaining Windows 10 This article is all about “Getting to Windows 10”. All of us have been to customers that have not yet officially started their Windows 10 projects or they are…
New Site Launched: DayScheduler.com
Very happy to announce that I have launched a new site! DayScheduler is an intuitive web-based application to help individuals or teams provide visibility of daily availability of a resource (person or thing) and offer users the ability to request booking. Specifically designed for people like me, always on the go, it can also be used…
Outside My Comfort Zone: Going YouTube
Although I am pretty technical, write hundreds of words per week (work emails/proposals), spend many hours on telecons and speak to live audiences several times per week/month, podcasting, video blogging and video content has not been in my priority list until recently. I totally see it as a must have skill in today’s world and…
Strong and Different Passwords Protect your Digital Life
This week I did my annual corporate security training and I really liked this story to illustrate how important is not to use different and strong passwords Don’t Let This Happen to You An online writer and journalist, suffered an identity theft that reads like a real-life horror story. As he describes it: “In the…
fetchTweets Web-App
fetchTweets allows you to retrieve tweets in HTML table format fetchTweets is a web-based application I wrote in PHP to create a backup of my tweets on my blog. I later modified it so anyone can use it from the web. https://fetchtweets.jorgep.com A PHP script retrieves (“fetch”) the tweets from an account and returns the results in…
2017 Summer of Crazy
Probably too early to post as we still have 15 days to go, but what a summer this one has been! As far as I can remember, I have never seen anything like this.. Truly Mother Nature is showing up big time this year: Hurricane Harvey – Texas Floods – $176B in losses Monsoon…
31Posts.com Comes To An End
Today, September 6, 2017 we are closing 31posts.com It is never easy to close a project you have been involved in… In the past year, there are a number of applications that have come out that handle social media schedules and publishing that have the same or better feature set that 31Post was targeting….
Santa Monica 2017 Visit – Homeless
As I talked on my podcast last week, I always wanted to stay in Santa Monica. I’ve heard many good things about it. I’ve visited several times over the years, but never stayed overnight. I had the opportunity to spend a couple of nights there, and it was a bit shocking. It…
Craiglist Experience – Always Be Alert!
This is just a reminder that you always need to be on the alert – One never knows who you are talking to or where they are coming from. Scammers are out there! I posted an ad in craigslist selling my travel trailer a few days ago. By 1:00p on the day…
IT Jobs Likely To Be Replaced By Artificial Intelligence
Just came across this article in Information Week by Cynthia Harvey: 10 IT Jobs That Will Be Done by AI. I have never liked articles set as slideshows where you have to click to get the next page / slide. It is an interesting list with good information, so I thought I would summarize it….
Walter Mossberg Retires on Charlie Rose
Walter Mossberg , THE GO-TO technology columnist for many years, is retiring. He announced his retirement in early June 2017 and Charlie Rose interviewed him not only on his life as a journalist but they got to talk about the future. Excellent conversation. A truly accomplished and down-to-earth person. Impeccable journey,…
Fourth Industrial Revolution – Davos 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and the implications on society, economy and culture are tremendous… For some of us in the field, we notice the rate of the change. The speed of the technological revolution is incredible. Every leader, no matter how small or large, high or low your position…
Today is our 30 Year Anniversary!
Today is our 30th year anniversary. My wife, Flavia, is not a fan of this word, but today I think it is very appropriate: WOW! As of this week, we have known each other 30 years and 6 weeks. Although she did not know it back then, the day we met, I knew she…
Home Security Ideas
I want to share some ideas for protecting your home that we use ourselves… We have an alarm system. THE most important thing is to post the “this house is protected by… ” signs in very visible areas of the the back front and side of the house — Back when we were…
Podcast Journey – The Beginning
As you may have noticed, I started a podcast! YES I know – I am late to the party, and yes I also know a lot of people are v-blogging (video-blogging) now… It is funny because it has been on my to do list for about 4 years, and I just never got to…
My Top 10 Basic Rules for Non-Business Travel
After years of travel, these are the 10 basic rules of travel I’ve developed. I will be telling you the same, if you go to Chicago, Paris, New York, Egypt, Japan or Santiago– no difference. Be a smart traveler: Do not get into dark alleys, be aware of your surroundings, travel light, trust your…
What will future jobs look like? TED Talk 2013
Good stuff!- TED talk from 2013 – still very current today. Published on Jun 20, 2013 Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs — or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate…
Book Recommendation: Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
Good book.! – “The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future.” Thank you Wikipedia for summarizing the 12 trends that will forever change the ways in which we work, learn and communicate: Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using…