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Switching Blogs

flannelbored — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:48:48 +0000

I\’m trying to downsize to a single blog. I\’ll no longer post to this blog. Please update your links and feeds.

http://dalemel.blogspot.com/atom.xml

NoahBook

flannelbored — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:35:45 +0000

FirstClass Customer Event

flannelbored — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:25:13 +0000

I\’m near LAX today at a customer event put on by the developer of our email / groupware platform. the last one I went to was in vegas, almost two years ago.

I hope to get good information that will help us make strategic decisions about the future of email at Biola.

More GTD

flannelbored — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:54:06 +0000

I\’ve listened to this audio book at least tree times in the last few weeks. (I was working on landscape in my backyard.) Just ordered a copy of this for a buddy of mine, who wasn\’t entirely excited about reading it. Who knows whether he will change his tune. I think he will.

\”Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity\” (David Allen)

Happy Father’s Day

flannelbored — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:38:17 +0000

Sprint PCS Updater for the Treo 650

flannelbored — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:20:17 +0000

Sprint finally came through with the Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking for the Treo 650. It was posted last night on Engadget but waited until this morning to do the update.

palmOne - Support - Download & Install Treo 650 Updater for Sprint PCS:

The update went fairly smooth, other than the normal Now Up-to-Date rigamarole to keep duplicate events from occurring on our shared calendar server (which I almost botched!).

Party in the Park

flannelbored — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:05:11 +0000

This past Saturday (June 11, 2005), we celebrated Noah’s birthday with some friends. A good time was had by all (at least that’s what they told us) and as you can probably tell by the picture below, Noah enjoyed his cake.

Now this is what I’ve been waiting for!

flannelbored — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:49:57 +0000

Back when I was a freshman in college (circa 1987) I had a Commodore 64. One of my favorites was the Sid Meier classic, Pirates. I would procrastinate for hours by playing this game. My roommate Chris Clements was so addicted that he would stay up all night playing this game. One morning when I got up about an hour before my 7:30 a.m. class on Friday (What can I say? I’m a morning person!), he was *still* playing.

“Sid Mieir’s Pirates”

The PC Version has been out since late November 2004. I remember almost purchasing it for my Wintendo while browsing at CompUSA over Thanksgiving, but it seems like such a great title for X-Box that I’m committed to waiting for it on the console. Well, that and that price hasn’t really come down enough for me to stop waiting; even the used prices are still close to $40!

[Updated to fix Amazon links.]

[composed and posted with ecto]

Must Reads: Two by Lencioni

flannelbored — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:29:47 +0000

…and I really mean “must.”

Carl (my vice president at work) asked his directors to read the following book. With my recent interest in Getting Things Done, I’m hoping that they are good reading and life changing (or at least work changing).

“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable” (Patrick M. Lencioni)

“Death by Meeting : A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business” (Patrick M. Lencioni)