Architecture by Hand (an OmniGraffle Stencil)
Create whiteboard-style information technology workflows and diagrams with this custom stencil for OmniGraffle. Includes iconography for networks, storage, devices,
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This week was a busy one for me. I launched two new websites: hallornohall.com and smartcarvs.com. Both of these sites are purely just for the heck of it. If they get some traction, great. If not, great.
Hall Or No Hall is a co-creation with my long-time pal and business partner, Matt Thompson. Our graphic designer [...]
Getting things to go your way in the workplace is not always easy. You have to use all of the tools in your arsenal to convince others that what you want is best for a project, your team, the company or yourself. Sometimes that tool is charm. Sometimes it’s humor. Sometimes you have to drop [...]
I’m so glad 2008 is over. It was a difficult and stressful year—perhaps the most difficult of my short 10-year professional career. “Never again,” I’ve been telling myself in hopes of avoiding a repeat year. So I’m going to be dedicating a few posts over the next few days (or weeks) discussing some of the important things that really [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a pure business-related post. Maybe because I’ve been bogged down in petty office politics lately, or maybe it’s just that I don’t have an active start-up I’m working on, but whatever the reason I’m compelled to write about what’s going on with Detroit.
I watched the Senate hearings with [...]
For a while I’ve had ongoing conversations within my group of business friends about core businesses. The conversation goes like this: companies say they do Y but act like a company that does Z. It’s a discrepancy in perception (or public relations) and actuality (which usually isn’t so public). I was reminded of this topic this morning [...]
Last Thursday I received an email from a friend, George Colombo, that pointed me to an article that Apple had filed a patent for “customized podcasts.” I was immediately surprised and dismayed, quite frankly, because my business partner, Matt Thompson, and I had actually developed the technology (we called it Modcast) and implemented it on [...]
I was on my way home work tonight when I stopped at a Exxon/Mobil gas station, surprised to see the above sticker plastered on the pump. I immediately thought that it was very odd. In my limited experience with merchant accounts and credit card processing, I thought this sort of practice was not acceptable per [...]
Today Radiohead announced their new album, In Rainbows, is available for pre-order. It will be released on October 10th without the distribution arm of one of the major record labels. Radiohead is thumbing their collective nose at the record industry’s tried and tired business model, putting their ingenuity and faith into the goodness [...]
