by Thomas Otter | May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
I recently bought a piano for my musical kids. Well, isn’t a piano in the traditional sense. It is a clavinova, to be precise, a Yamaha CLP 340. I’m interested in music, but I’m not much of a musician. My original plan was just to go online and buy something based on customer ratings and [...]
Category: software industry Tags: music, sales, software
by Thomas Otter | December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
Just 30 minutes north west of Johannesburg there is a Safari Park. You can see giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, many birds, and lots of buck. Lions laze under the trees. You drive your car slowly by, counting off the animals you see. 5 hours north east of Johannesburg there is a Game Reserve. You can see [...]
Category: Africa project software industry Tags: References, software
by Thomas Otter | November 21, 2009 | 5 Comments
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:Thy pyramids built up with newer mightTo me are nothing novel, nothing strange;They are but dressings of a former sight.Our dates are brief, and therefore we admireWhat thou dost foist upon us that is old;And rather make them born to our desireThan think that we [...]
Category: software industry Tags: sales, shakespeare, software
by Thomas Otter | October 31, 2009 | Comments Off
(photo via cc attribution licence. ms4jah thanks. Most of my working career encouraged me to chant the mantra, “we are integrated.” I have spent the last year or so thinking about integration in a more objective light. Integration for me has undergone a de-reification process. I was doing a presentation about HR technology recently, and [...]
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Category: software design software industry Tags: integration, software
by Thomas Otter | July 27, 2009 | Comments Off
photo via wikipedia. thanks! This weekend we did some camping, just across the border into France, and very close to part of Maginot Line. Next time I visit that area I’m going to take some time and actually visit a couple of Ouvrages, go inside and see the working railway and the logistics of the [...]
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Category: software industry Tags: maginot, maintenance, software
