As we in the US get ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, many of us like to blog about the things we are thankful for. Each year, as I dwell on that thought, certain things always come to the forefront. I’m always thankful for the life I have, for the people who love me,…
Many of you may already know this, and to some extent I’m marking this here for my own purposes, but you can download the Enron data set from the EDRM website and use it as sample data for testing purposes. Personally, I’m going to grab some of the data for testing, and for training. Never…
Since I love to travel, and I love to take photos, you might think that I really love going someplace new on each trip, and I do. On the other hand, sometimes it’s nice to go to places you enjoy and are familiar with, like when Angela and I go to Vegas. We’ve been a…
A.k.a. “Why I don’t like Twitter’s new retweet function”. As far as I can tell from the beta testing of Twitter’s new Retweet function, someone inside of Twitter seems to want to make sure that original tweets are given more credit than they maybe currently get, and that no one dare change any of them….
Since I was in Indianapolis this weekend, for my niece’s birthday, a stop at Fry’s was on order before heading home. Turns out they were running a special on a Western Digital 1.5TB external hard drives. Until Nov. 19 they are $99.99. Naturally, I picked one up while we were in town, and immediately made…
I forgot to mention this earlier, probably because the “official” announcement came out while I was on vacation sans laptop, but I am officially certified as a Trial Director 5 trainer. Now, since I can’t really do much training outside of my own firm, the certification doesn’t mean much. (It’d be a conflict of interest…