I made my latest business trip to Japan this past week and while some things change, some things never change. I might sound like a broken record from my previous trip-recap blogs but some things that never change, and which I totally admire, is the courtesy of the Japanese people. Second is the absolute efficiency with which everything works. Trains and bus schedules are often ‘on-time’ and a delay is…
So, riddle-me-this…typically when you get two great actors such as Robert DeNiro and John Travolta in one flick you have an instant movie classic, right? Well, let me solve this riddle and inform you that this isn’t always case and Killing Season (2013) is one of those. Don’t get me wrong, this certainly was not a bad movie. But neither was it a particularly good movie. This simply was a…
Indexing, Metadata, Keyword, SharePoint, Capture, Scanner, Documents, ECM, Content Management What is wrong with the collection of words above? Well, it’s a collection of terms that are closely related but have no logical structure in order to be of value to anyone reading them. In order for these words to be valuable in terms of readability for context they need to be logically organized into a sentence. The logic of…
I was just going to ignore this commentary of Stanley Kubrick’s films called “Room 237” but I just can’t. For your sake! Don’t ever watch this garbage unless you are the type into far-reaching conspiracy theories that have no, or very little, basis for facts. I am a huge fan of Stanley including The Shining, and much of his work, but this dude that made this commentary puts him on…
Another year of successful Stanford football is in the books! Yesterday the guys and I packed the supplies, met at our usual rendezvous point and then caravanned on up to “The Farm” (a.k.a. Stanford Stadium) for our annual event. I’m not sure exactly how many years I have been personally attending but it’s quite a few (between 6-7 is my guess) and overall this group, or various renditions of the…