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A Trip To The “Ewok Village”

by Ron Bieber May 27, 2007 General

Yesterday we took a trip up to my inlaws camper to spend some quality time with them. Jonna and I haven’t been up there for over a year, but every time we head up there I am amazed at what I see.
The camper is located in a little campground in Wisconsin. I [...]

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A Couple More Quotes on Change

by Ron Bieber May 3, 2007 General

I’m re-reading Persuasion Engineering by Richard Bandler and John LA Valle, after recently taking an “influence and persuasion” training.
I’ve always enjoyed Bandlers work. I saw him speak once and he was entertaining and intense. He is definitely the source of a lot of good quotes on change.
Two of them I hit [...]

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Machiavelli Quote on Change

by Ron Bieber May 3, 2007 General

I heard this Machiavelli quote on the latest edition of the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Podcast, which was a talk given by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP:

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the [...]

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My Myers-Briggs Profile

by Ron Bieber April 30, 2007 General

As part of a training I’m in, I took one of those Myers-Briggs personality tests. I wound up being an INTP. I have to say, I think its pretty damn accurate (and I would add uncannily so). I’d be interested to hear whether this jives with people who actually [...]

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Goal Reminder

by Ron Bieber April 17, 2007 General

I got this reminder in my inbox the other day from 43 things:

Dear future self,
I’m reminding you about your stated goal on 43 things, to
“decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my
life”.
How’s it going?
Sincerely,
Your past self

Stupid Past Self …

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Four Days in Vegas

by Ron Bieber April 1, 2007 General

Jonna and I took our first “away” vacation in about three years this week. It was also the first away vacation without the kids. We decided to head out to Las Vegas since she had never been there and I had never been there with her. We had also [...]

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Slow Blogging Days

by Ron Bieber March 24, 2007 General

Its been really slow up here lately and its been bugging me. The problem is, I’m generating a ton of content but most if it is for work. Things have been extremely busy and by the time I get home and open up Ecto to get a blog post done, I’m [...]

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Blog as a Business Card

by Ron Bieber January 11, 2007 General

I found Jason Calacanis’ characterization of his blog as a business card pretty interesting. I’ve never thought of it that way. It’s definitely an interesting concept though.

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Happy New Year

by Ron Bieber January 1, 2007 General

Happy new year to all our friends and family. Hope you all have a great 2007.

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I am … Venom?

by Ron Bieber December 31, 2006 General

I saw that Jason Calacanis posted his Which Super Villain Are You results, so I figured since I did the super hero thing I might as well post these as well.
Your results:You are Venom

Venom

60%

Apocalypse

56%

Dr. Doom

56%

Two-Face

56%

Lex Luthor

51%

Magneto

50%

Dark Phoenix

47%

Green Goblin

44%

Juggernaut

44%

Catwoman

41%

Mr. Freeze

35%

Kingpin

33%

The Joker

31%

Riddler

28%

Poison Ivy

[...]

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Super Hero Quiz

by Ron Bieber December 30, 2006 General

Your results:You are Hulk

Hulk

75%

Robin

70%

Spider-Man

65%

Batman

65%

Superman

50%

The Flash

50%

Iron Man

45%

Green Lantern

45%

Supergirl

38%

Catwoman

35%

Wonder Woman

8%

You are a wanderer withamazing strength.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

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The “Official” Christmas Wrap Up

by Ron Bieber December 26, 2006 General

Well Christmas is over. We finally had the “official” gift exchange with the boys when they got back from their fathers house at about 10a.
I received Black Label Society – The European Invasion-Doom Troopin – Live DVD from Andy and an iTunes gift card and some damn comfortable slippers [...]

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An Early Christmas

by Ron Bieber December 24, 2006 General

For the last sixteen years, we have normally split Christmas with Kelsi to Christmas Eve for Dad, and Christmas Day for Mom. This has worked out very well for us over the years.
This year was a little different. Kelsi is involved in marching band and her schedule is impacted by [...]

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Home IT Check List Status – The Vacation Posts

by Ron Bieber November 28, 2006 General

I thought I’d give a small update on my Home IT duties that were pending at the time yesterdays post went up:

Upgrading the Kids Memory – It winds up that the machine they have, an HP Pavilion 700 series, is maxed out at the current 512M. Bummer.
Recovery Disks for Windows XP machine – [...]

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Our First Day of Vacation

by Ron Bieber November 27, 2006 General

This is the first year since we’ve been married that Jonna and I are both in IT. This week marks the first available time that we’ve had to take vacation this year. Unfortunately, she had to work.
I figured I might as well catch up on some of my “Home IT” [...]

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Quotiki: A Social Site for Quote Man

by Ron Bieber November 23, 2006 General

As I was upgrading our Subversion software to 1.4.2 yesterday once everyone had left for the holidays (I’m really trying to keep up on this), I started browsing through LifeHacker, a site that Jason Calacanis has mentioned quite a few times on the Gillmor Gang and on his personal blog.
While browsing the site, I came [...]

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SVK Tutorials now under Creative Commons License

by Ron Bieber October 27, 2006 General

After quite a few requests by people to use the SVK Tutorials for various things, I’ve decided to license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This license includes commercial use of the works.
After all the work I did seeking permission to play independent music on the podcast, and finding it so [...]

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Dad Takes Kelsi Driving

by Ron Bieber October 8, 2006 General

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We have two kids with drivers permits right now and yesterday was the first time I actually took Kelsi out.
Overall, she did really well. I don’t remember being as nervous when I started driving as she was, though I’m sure I was. Thankfully, she felt comfortable driving with me, [...]

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Value Stream Mapping Software

by Ron Bieber October 2, 2006 General

I’m looking for software that does Value Stream Mapping. As with mind mapping, this process is an extreme pain without a tool to do it. If you know of any good software (or component add ons for existing software like Visio), please leave a comment on the blog. [...]

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Ever See A Laptop After the Battery Explodes?

by Ron Bieber September 24, 2006 General

Check out these pictures of Alan Cox’s laptop after the battery exploded. eYikes.

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