New Location for Thought Sparks
I finally got around to making the transition from Blogger to thoughtsparks.net. The design will go through some revision soon, but getting moved over was the first major issue. The main thing was the value of transitioning to an independent domain fairly early on in the life of the blog. I’m getting some traction in […]
Home Network Best Practices
My wife often comments, "what do people do who don’t have a techie for a spouse?" For those of you frustrated with computing gotcha’s and don’t have a resident techie, here’s some simple stuff to do to keep your computing environment at home humming along.
Turn your machine off at night or for longer periods when […]
Best FireFox Plug-in Ever
I just discovered Foxytunes. Check out: www.foxytunes.com to download. Foxytunes is a music tool that integrates into Firefox allowing you to control the music player of choice from the browser. It’s highly configurable and as you can see is compatible w/ a good number of players. It also has a slick search function that allows […]
The One Degree of Difference
There is a difference between good and shoddy work. It’s a one degree difference. One definition of perfect is: "excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement." Being perfect, complete in ones projects sometimes is the difference of a few minutes well spent.
Did you take out a piece of paper and think through the project?
Did […]
Here Was a Man (For Easter Sunday)
Here was a man a man who was born
in a small village the son of a peasant woman
He grew up in another small village
Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter
Then for three years he was a traveling minister
But he never traveled more than two hundred miles
from where he was born
And […]
Laughter, The Best Medicine
I found this video at Nelson Tan’s site 10 Benefits of Laughing and wanted to share the joy. I’ve gone back to it so many times that I thought it worth sharing.
My challenge to you: See if you can actually watch this video without laughing. I can hardly get through the first 5 seconds before […]
New Look for Thought Sparks
After messing around with logos, I decided to go a different direction with a collage concept. The imagery is a mix of classical thinking and street art. The whispy flame is a hint of an idea mulling around between well developed and emerging concepts, order and disorder melding together towards new insight.
I enjoy blogging because […]
April Fools from Google
Google premiered two "services" that caught wind on the blogosphere today: Gmail paper and Gmail TiSP.
Gmail paper is a service to send your email that you select via snail mail. Great service for the neophites of the world. See: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
Google TiSP is in-home wireless broadband service. It requires feeding a cable down your toilet. […]
Through the Eyes of a Child
My four and a half year old grabbed her digital camera yesterday afternoon and took some shots of what she saw. It’s refreshing, I think, to literally see through the eye of child.
What would the world be like if we saw new ideas like a four year old?
Would we be more delighted?
Would life seem more […]
Poisoned Ivy and Poisoned Thinking
Recently I posted about organic thinking. It’s Spring, and to my delight the garden is in bloom. But to my shagrin, so is poison ivy. For a recent service project I was mowing a field and got a good case of poison ivy. Been thinking about "thought" and what propels new initiatives in business and […]
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