Happy Birthday, Unfiltered
It’s been a year since I started blogging. Powers Unfiltered has provided me with a number of unexpected benefits and consequences. First, it has put me in touch with more customers, partners, and...
View ArticleInnovation!!
Digipede is the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year! A huge thank you to all our customers, partners, and the increasingly large, vocal, and supportive Microsoft chapter of the Digipede Fan Club. I...
View ArticleVacation
I am on vacation in Oregon with my family. (As some of you know, I’m a closet Oregonian — the seven years I lived here left a big impression, and I come back here a lot.) At first I thought “hey, this...
View ArticleVisual Studio Industry Partners — VSIP Rocks!
I got an email from the VSIP program last night, requesting that I fill out a satisfaction survey. I did so happily — there’s nothing like a quick dose of VSIP to wash away the taste of a bad MSPP...
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Off-topic: Apple’s Lawyers visit Mars
OK, it’s mildly annoying that iTunes and Quicktime want me to install 60-MB updates pretty much weekly these days, but no big deal, I can ignore their nagging messages. But I actually wanted to upgrade...
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Off topic — Going Solar
Late this winter, we had a whopper of a Pacific storm, and it became clear that the Powers Roof had reached the end of its useful life. (The weather inside may not have been as bad as the weather...
View ArticleOff Topic — Solar Update
As I wrote earlier this month, the Powers household is now generating some of its own electricity, via photovoltaic panels on the roof. Soon after the installation, our local utility PG&E...
View ArticleOff Topic: Kiva
OK, it’s “Blog Against Poverty Day,” and while I rarely participate in such blogging “days” (mostly out of disorganization), this seems a good time to share my experiences with Kiva. This month, we are...
View ArticleMulticore Development Article
Just saw a good article in Dr. Dobb’s about multicore OO development by John Gross and Jeremy Orme of Connective Logic in the UK. A very different approach from Digipede’s; it may be possible to...
View ArticleWAY Off Topic: Skunk Party
I like living in Lafayette, but occasionally its suburban-to-semi-rural nature reminds us that various other species think we’re on their property. Deer eat most anything we plant, gophers re-engineer...
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