David McCoy

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: A common dividing point. One of my friend’s kids just joined the Facebook crowd. Her first post was, “I got a Facebook.”  Interesting choice of verb, “GOT.”  I use that verb when I pick up milk and bread. She used it when she picked up an account. Even more interesting [...]

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Well, it was one year ago, on September 15th, 2008 when I uttered my first post on this blog. I was on the Friday night Amtrak Southern Crescent, returning from Washington DC, when I got the word that “The blogs are ready.”  On Monday, I was locked and loaded, technologically ready to roll.
Here’s what I [...]

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I have some books left over from my college days. Since 1978, I have opened my Pascal programming book about 10 times. 9 times were simply to see if I had left any dollar bills as book marks.  My “Legal Environment of Business” book from 1986’s fun class of the same name sits unopened since [...]

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I have been up most of the night, nursing a ruptured ear-drum.  One thinks a lot at night. Here’s one of the odder thoughts I have had in a while.
I see a LOT of the use of this cute emoticon
XD
Sideways, it looks a lot like my old favorite
:>
However, the “eyes and mouths” are different. [...]

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Let’s hear it!
I know it’s the height of foolishness to wish away a portion of your life.
However…
I think we will be forgiven for this one.
Why couldn’t the Grinch “find some way to stop” 2009 “from coming”?

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We could pick either side and argue all day on this alleged one.
I don’t want to say any more. Just look at this one and ask yourself how you would examine it from each perspective below:

Business Process Management
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Business Rule Management
Intelligence Quotient
Free Will and Self-Determinism
American Pioneering Spirit
Hawk
Dove
Civil Liberties
SOA

I threw that last one [...]

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Scenario 1: Attended a kid birthday party at one of those game-pizza-noise places.  Everyone who comes in gets stamped with a UV readable number. Upon leaving, you take only the kids that match your number.  Fair deal.  Well, I watched families leaving and no one was checking them out.  In fact, there was no one [...]

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In a few days, I should have the paperwork that allows me to locate and hire a new Research Director to be based in Europe (ideally, UK).  Now, nothing’s certain in this world, and this is not a binding statement; it’s more of a heads-up.  My HR partner approved a posting on my blog, so [...]

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Cults are all around you.  Do you know how they operate?  If they want to change your whole life around and get you as a new recruit, they typically post a few “how to join” memos on their internal website and mail you a Plexiglas paperweight with their name and motto on it.  That’s how [...]

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Today, I attended a conference entitled, “Computing at the Margins.”  The subject was simple:  How can computing be used to help those on the margins of society?  It seems arrogant and audacious to define some group as “being on the margin” only if you are stuck in the Frankfurt school of political correctness.  For those [...]

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