My wife loves the Bachelor and thus I have been watching it too.  At first, there were too many people to keep track of but after a while you get favorites and unfavorites (contestants that just annoy you) so it draws you in.  One thing that surprised me was that both PSU and OSU had advertisements on the Bachelor last night.  What target market were they driving for?  What drove them to suddenly advertize on TV and why this show?  

They say leading engineers is like herding cats, I would not be surprised if this is a general truth of leadership, and the greater the size of organization, the tougher the job of leadership is.  Watching Obama is a great schooling on leadership.  In particular, his stimulus plan appears to consist of the things he wanted to do anyway but now they are aligned with the need to do a some sort of stimulus package.  This concept of alignment is a powerful one.   Books on selling your ideas tend to focus on the importance of executive time (the time of executives and management) and how quickly you need to make your pitch.  Thus a powerful key is to understand their goals and the goals of the organization and to align your ideas with it.  The stronger the alignment, the easier it should be to sell your idea.

I am really eyeing those netbooks.  I was a skeptic but they are getting good reviews and the price seems pretty nice.  Plus, the in-laws talk about a computer for simple tasks so it sounds perfect for them although I could not recommend it without trying one.

I looked at the Dell Mini 9 but it seems hard to commit too knowing the mini 10 is on the way.  I like the idea of playing with multi-touch on the touch pad and an integrated GPS sounds like a great way to replace two gadgets with one ( I currently do not have a GPS but am tempted …).

Too bad it is not out yet…on the other hand…waiting for the next shiny new thing is a great way to save money as long as there is always something shinier on the way…

Looks like the website is up and running…

The home page needs more work and certainly could be prettier.  I will probably spend some time understanding DasBlog and then try to blend it in better with the look and feel of the DasBlog portion of the site.

I still really like the concept of pointers to my scattered web identity.  I could see it get even more interesting as that identity continues to expand.  For example, I did check out Googles document, blogging and sharing tools along with Microsoft's.  Neither of them was particularly compelling. 

Just getting things going here.  I’ve switched from the linux option to the windows option and then went to DasBlog based on Scott Hanselman’s use of it.  The goal is to have:

• a home page that provides links to my web-presence on LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, etc
• a blog site based on DasBlog
• a gallery for sharing photos with people that don’t want to join facebook

So stay tuned…

PS, I am using Windows Live Writer to try this post…lets see how that works…

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