Posted on April 30 2007 by Dave J.
It’s easy to be cynical about kids, especially today, with so much leisure, so much wealth, so much freedom. I worry about it with my own kids. My daughter is 12 and twin boys will be 10 soon. You wonder when (and if) they will become productive members of society.
This weekend I experienced two things [...]
Posted on April 25 2007 by Dave J.
Someone posted a link to an ‘interesting’ B2B video in my comments yesterday. It was boring. It wasn’t useful. The formal staging was awkward. And it had only garnered about 40 views according to the web service hosting it.
Okay, it was an attempt at a thought-leader interview, and not true B2B content, but it got [...]
Posted on April 25 2007 by Dave J.
As I was reminded earlier this week, today starts my fifth year blogging. That’s a long time! So I thought a little ’state of the blog’ ramble was in order to mark the occasion.
I’ve been frustrated by a slower pace of posts I’ve been making the last few months. Most of the change of pace [...]
Posted on April 24 2007 by Dave J.
What to do when your show/event is down in traffic and booked-space? Move? Thats a big gamble. And great place to take a gamble is in Vegas, where the Apex Show is moving, according to Circuits Assembly magazine:
“The Apex/IPC Printed Circuits Expo trade show will relocate to Las Vegas in 2008, show producer IPC said [...]
Posted on April 20 2007 by Dave J.
ThomasNet’s newsletter announced a new units conversion tool you can download free.
A great idea, something that engineers need and covet. Just the thing to keep the TN brand in front of engineers.
The tool is a little edgy in that is is a Windows Vista “Gadget”, which I found confusing, having never heard of such a [...]
Posted on April 14 2007 by Dave J.
There aren’t many industrial folks blogging about their business. That’s why I happily subscribed to QC Industries’ blog. Mostly show news, new products, etc. It was quite a surprise to find a post titled: They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery with this interesting news:
“Don’t get me wrong, we’re flattered that someone liked [...]
Posted on April 4 2007 by Dave J.
I am starting the process to rebuild our company website. It’s interesting that when I’ve told a couple people, they replied with “Why?”
I was stumped for an answer. The plan is to lift the existing content and put it on a new chassis. There will be some tweaks, some navigational improvements. But really, what they [...]