I was visiting a marketing software company with a renowned professor when he said something that both startled and intrigued me: “Programmers,” he said, “are arrogant.” He’s right. We are. My mind flashed back to earlier this morning when I was reading comments on Hacker News about a supposed fork to a popular programming language. [...]
Dear Netflix, It’s not me it’s you. I cancelled my account just before the 60% price increase kicked in. I took the exit survey because I wanted to let you know why. You didn’t give me that chance. The closest item to my answer was “I want to cut costs.” While that’s somewhat true, it’s [...]
I’m nearly a month late in posting this, but my first solo-authored article has been published. Gregory, T. A. (2011). Transactional Cost Economics and Directions for Relational Governance Research. Paper presented at the 14th Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://sais.aisnet.org/2011/Gregory.pdf SAIS isn’t the most prestigious conference, but it’s a start. (This [...]
I’m working in a research paper we hope to get submitted to an Information Systems conference. I was going through the references when EndNote X2 stopped working together with Word 2008. Every attempt to change a citation resulted in the error “COM Exception: Command not found.” (I’m running OS X 10.5) A quick Google showed [...]
I’m stuck in Atlanta. I booked on Priceline.com. I needed to be in Atlanta for a day, so flew in late last night via Frontier Airlines. On the first leg of the trip (with Frontier partner, United), the flight left 20 minutes late because a computer failure required all baggage to be processed manually. Fortunately, [...]
It’s been nearly six months since I last posted. Some have suggested I’ve fallen off the face of the earth. ‘Tis not so. I’m still here. In July and August I was able to finish up work with the startup I’d been developing for, helping them see their first profitable quarter. The long hours hunched [...]
This post isn’t about public education. It’s not about technology. It’s about tragedy. I was driving home from a family reunion over the Christmas holiday when someone ran out in front of my car, waving for me to stop. It was dark. I was on the freeway. I swerved, missed him and pulled over immediately. [...]
It’s not very often you’ll find a comment here about my personal life, but a hail storm in July (after a week of 100° temperatures) and 90mph winds is a bit of a big deal. The storm tossed around helicopters at the nearby airport, and took out a couple of streets worth of power lines. [...]
Like many soccer fans around the world, I watched yesterday’s World Cup match between Italy and the United States. The match was enjoyable, both teams were fun to watch. I am however, embarassed and disgusted my the ABC announcers who repeatedly insulted not only the match referee, but every person who has ever officiated a [...]
‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. I’ve put off the introspective musings which are all too common with bloggers; I want my blog to be about more than just me. However, with the hope that public goals are more likely to be accomplished than private ones, I’ve listed some of my goals, in no [...]
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