World class frisbee, show, therapy and stock dogs.
Wow! Image map on front page for easy navigation.
Lots more pictures and info to get up soon.
This organization had significant existing web development talent.
They sought guidance regarding how to make best use of that talent.
Lakedata.net set up hosting, and is providing training-development on use of the eZ Publish CMS on as needed basis.
It is awesome to be a part of seeing their skills flourish into something real world useful so quickly.
A tremendous amount of energy is used just to dispose of "waste" biomass.
In btu speak that is btu wasted, just to waste existing btu.
Biochar is likely the first step toward changing public perceptions of what is possible with biomass energy on a local scale. Every economic decision, is ultimately a local decision.
Fantastic group of people, small wonder they are doing so well in this tough economy.
Bryant Business Graphics handles their print needs. They were on their second round of looking for Web development support.
This is a quasi-commissioned site/partnership site. Bryant Business does the design. Lakedata.net does hosting, CMS and general layout. Arrowhead completes the structure with text and pictures.
I think it turned out well, and it was a lot of fun putting it together. Thanks to everyone. Print to web is a great way to retain the brand while transferring the look and feel to the WWW.
Rebuilt signals, signal station assembly, new and remanufactured train signal parts.
Joplin treating national visitors from the press to some more of natures fury.
This is turning into a pattern.
For the second day in a row. Yesterday was 2 or 3 inches of rain.
More gully washing on the way.
Anybody that knows me, knows how much I love to fish.
If I could catch them like this, it would take a crow bar to pry me away from the water.
Pretty good fishin on Truman Lake right now.
Russ Beck with a whopper, 3 and a half pound crappie caught on Truman.
Save everyone time, trouble and money, by running software update regularly. Even with software updates, there are windows of opportunity for would be hackers. Without updating, that window of opportunity grows without limit, until the inevitable occurs.
How mysterious would it be to have the left click of your mouse completely stop working? Plug in any mouse, trackpad, etc, none of them work, so you know it is not a problem with that one piece of hardware.
Login as a different user, and HOPEFULLY everything works just fine.
So what did that one user do to cause such a problem? Probably browsed into a location they shouldn't have.
Security problems with OS X Font handling were publicly disclosed November 2010. Patched March 2011.
- Disclosure - http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2921
- Patch - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1366
Running software update at least once a month on all macs is just good practice. An experience this week is proof enough for me that Mac vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wilds of the Web.
It is two clicks, and an admin login to initiate software update.. while you can still click.
Frank Fox, thoughtful, insightful article further ponders thoughts by entrepreneur and open source advocate Matt Asay in the Register about how many billions Microsoft and Nokia have wasted on R&D versus M&A (Marketing and Advertising?) Not real clear from "the Register" article what is M&A.
IMHO, it is not R&D versus M&A, it is maximizing the value of human capital per dollar spent. That is the logical reason that buying startups generally holds a much higher potential for payback than than office buildings filled with cubicles filled with employees tasked with grinding out the next great innovation. There is no complex task that can be reduced to the mindless concept that dollars spent equals level of human effort expended.
Apple derives far more value from their 3 percent of spending than others from their 15 percent budgets because they understand that the real value in the equation is maximizing the value of human capital. It is the people and the vision at Apple that makes the difference.
Apple users, by definition are not concerned with maintaining status quo. They seek better ways to use technology and are handed better technology to use. It is impossible to see the horizon when looking at your feet, or worse yet, back down the trail from whence you came. How many times and ways can an office suite be re-imagined and re-coded primarily for incompatibility before the world wakes up to a better way? Apparently not much longer.
Apple users arrive at Apple by actively seeking better technology rather than listening to Microsoft and Linux honks decry Apple to extremes that defy logic. Then they become the most satisfied tech users on the planet by a wide margin.
Apple R&D
- Not interested in status quo
- Full access to the latest forward looking technologies
- Stable technology base, no re-inventing the wheel, maximize use of well proven and long standing open source technologies.
- A clear mission, simplify technology so people can "just use it".
Open source fans do themselves a disservice when they decry Apple as evil rather than pointing to a large part of Apple success story being the packaging over 100 top open source tools into the most user friendly "distro" in the history of open source. Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, after leaving Red Hat, at the recommendation of Red Hat engineers, got a Mac . Linus Torvalds is a notorious fan of Apple hardware.
Apple R&D did not have to worry about faux conceptualization of DRM for plastic media like Blu-Ray. They were already focused past that, on better methods of pure digital distribution. Apple R&D did not focus on pumping out boxed set video games for sale through retail distribution channels. Once again, they realized the future is digital distribution. Apple R&D did focus on turning mobile phones into full fledged digital communication devices. People seem to like that. The list goes on for the formerly less than 5 percent, now 10 percent who "get it".
Far from peaking, Apple appears to have finally achieved enough critical mass to begin enjoying widespread acceptance. It is a paradigm shift much like moving from horses to automobiles. At first the automobile scared the horses, then side by side compatibility.. When tablets, Touches, and mobile phones, all legitimate ways to access digital information are added into the mix, the critical mass and the paradigm shift are already here.
Our kids will not be using printers. I am old enough to remember that the "paperless office" was the original promise about three decades ago. Somewhere the eyes dropped from the horizon down to the feet. The status quo was easier and much more immediately profitable. A door opened wide for those who will innovate forward toward the original goal.
Apple R&D stays focused on the horizon. Maximizing human capital with clear vision of a better future from the very products they are developing obviously works 100's of percent better than raw budgeted dollars to spend. Real geeks don't care nearly so much about dollars as they doing about extending the limits of what is perceived as possible.
Went online today. Any bets on how long until it makes it into the top 10 percent of traffic?
My guess is 3 - 4 months.
