Archive for October, 2008
New Stuff at EC2
Dear Amazon, If you need a higher ed evangelist, call me. I will take the job. Yours, Mike Amazon announced some new changes to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) product today. You can read more about there here but I wanted to highlight a few of the things I see as important. 1. EC2 is [...]
Getting out of your comfort zone
I’ve been trying to challenge myself lately to learn new things. It’s easy to get too comfortable and keep doing the same things, stuff like using the same font in a graphic, the same CSS on a site, recycling the same code because it’s easy. It’s hard to make something new or re-design something. It [...]
Goal Setting Via Postcard
As part of the IT Managers session back in September, one of the sessions talked about goal setting and prioritization. One of the activities had attendees writing down some goals and things to think about on note cards. When we finished, we put the cards in an envelope and addressed them to ourselves. We returned [...]
