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Zorts Lives: Hi Tech?
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012. This is what the lobby of our office building looks like every time it rains:. Nice work, Equity Office. Posted by Jerry Callen. August 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM. Maybe they could move the trees to where the leaks are at and call it natural irrigation? Great looking office building! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jerry on Mt. Adams. Dancing at Waterfire with the Ladies of the Rollin. Can you spare 3 minutes. View my complete profile. Narsil.org - my home page.
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Zorts Lives: The end of the line for the Juxtacomm patent?
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Friday, March 30, 2012. The end of the line for the Juxtacomm patent? It looks like the U.S. Patent Office has issued a final, please-get-out-of-my-face rejection of essentially all of the claims of the infamous '662 patent. Software firm Teilhard Technologies. Has been using to. Litigate against software vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Informatica and many others. See my earlier posting about the USPTO's ruling on the '662 patent. Reexamination - final rejection of claims. Posted by Jerry Callen. Jonath...
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Zorts Lives: Where did the jobs go?
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Sunday, January 22, 2012. Where did the jobs go? Today's New York Times has a long article ( How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work. That offers a discouraging picture for job growth in the U.S. The problem isn't labor costs per se; rather, it's that the entire manufacturing supply chain has shifted from the U.S. to Asia. - a change initially caused by labor costs, but now self-perpetuating. The glass used in the iPhone's display provides a great example, As Corning's CFO observed:. But besides the supply chai...
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Zorts Lives: Honk! 2013
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Saturday, October 12, 2013. This afternoon Katy and I walked out to Davis Square to take in some of this year's Honk Festival. Posted by Jerry Callen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jerry on Mt. Adams. I started this blog to journal my 7-month assignment with IBM in Hyderabad, India (April-October, 2007). Lately I've diversified a bit. View my complete profile. Narsil.org - my home page. The Annex - nothing to see here, move along, please. Jonathan Coulton - geek balladeer.
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Zorts Lives: Thanks for the dances, Helene
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Thanks for the dances, Helene. Helene Cornelius, a long-time Boston English Country dance teacher (and dancer! Died early last month after a fall. I danced with her just a week before she died. The Globe recently published a very nicely-done memorial article. Which mentions Pinewoods camp,. Where Owen's wedding just took place. Thank you for all the dances, Helene. Posted by Jerry Callen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jerry on Mt. Adams. Thanks for the dances, Helene.
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Zorts Lives: And now we are Qlikies
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. And now we are Qlikies. The little data integration software company I work for, was acquired. Makers of the Qlikview. Business Discovery Platform. This is very good development for us; Expressor Studio complements Qlikview very nicely, and since Qliktech is a rapidly growing, publicly traded company,we're going to have a lot more development horsepower to move our product forward. Expressor has come along way since I joined almost three years ago. We introduced. Jonathan Coulton ...
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Zorts Lives: Can you spare 3 minutes...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012. Can you spare 3 minutes. To debunk the myth of "You didn't build that! The Romney campaign has been flogging the notion that. President Obama said to business owners, "You didn't build that [business]! In fact, in context, the "that" in the sentence is clearly. Referring to"roads and bridges." Obama was talking about all the infrastructure that enables business to thrive. If you want to find reasons to prefer Romney over Obama, at least do so with a little integrity. Or is it ju...
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Zorts Lives: My love-hate relationship with Amazon
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Saturday, July 28, 2012. My love-hate relationship with Amazon. This morning I read in the Times that Jeff Bezos has pledged $2.5M in support of same-sex marriage in Washington State. I wanted to let Amazon know that I'm happy about this support by its CEO, so I clicked on over to amazon.com to find their "contact us" link. Unless I'm just hopelessly blind this morning, Amazon doesn't seem to have a mechanism for receiving general feedback. The DRM periodically drives me crazy. Subscriptions are espe...
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Zorts Lives: Dancing at Waterfire with the Ladies of the Rolling Pin
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Sunday, August 19, 2012. Dancing at Waterfire with the Ladies of the Rolling Pin. Well, a fraction thereof.) danced in Providence last night at Waterfire, at the invitation of the Ladies of the Rolling Pin. Several other teams were there, too, including a partial side from Newtowne. We teamed up to dance about a half a dozen dances. After the dancing I wandered around for a while, taking in the sights and people. Downtown Providence is quite lovely at night. Waterfire w/LORP, August 2012.