It's been quite some time since I've written anything. Quite honestly, I'm going to fall back on the excuse that I've been too busy and have had other things to do. I'm going to make one more attempt to get back into making some semi-consistent posts.
I want to draw your attention to a big event that is happening in Indianapolis this Friday. Scale Computing, a very up-and-coming and rising star in the area of IT in Indianapolis, is having their Grand Opening this Friday. My good friend Frank Leonard of Leonard-McDowell Consulting has asked that anyone that's interested in attending to go to the registration page to register. Please see below for more details that were sent to me by Frank. Please direct any questions to Frank. Thanks and make it a great day!!
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You are cordially invited.
Indiana Secretary of Commerce and Indianapolis Mayor to Help Celebrate Grand Opening of Scale Computing Corporate Office
Indiana Secretary of Commerce Mitch Roob will help Scale celebrate the grand opening of its new Indianapolis corporate office with a ribbon cutting ceremony, followed by a press conference and facility tour Friday, November 6, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. EST. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and Purdue Research Foundation COO Joseph Hornett will also be helping celebrate the grand opening by speaking about Scale Computing making its home in Indianapolis and what it means for the City and the Purdue Research Park system respectively.
Master of Ceremonies and vice president of marketing and business development for Scale, Peter Fuller, will host the event which will feature speeches from Mitch Roob, Greg Ballard, Joseph Hornett and Scale’s CEO and founder, Jeff Ready. Guests and members of the media are invited to the event, which will be held inside the Purdue Research Park facilities. Coffee and pastries will be offered at the event.
Recently named to Forbes Magazine’s America’s Most Promising Companies List for 2009, Scale Computing is relocating its headquarters and beginning building its operations in Indianapolis with the help of a $2 million grant from Indiana's 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. With plans to manufacture its storage units in Indiana as well as expand from its current 15 employees to about 50 by the end of 2010, Scale is looking to have about $1 million in revenue this year. The state of Indiana and the city of Indianapolis will obviously benefit from Scale’s relocation, as Scale is operating in an estimated $8 billion storage market.
What: Scale Computing ribbon cutting ceremony and press conference
When: November 6, 2009, 10 a.m. — 11 a.m. EST
Who:
Peter Fuller, co-founder and VP of Marketing, Scale Computing (Master of Ceremonies)
Jeff Ready, CEO and founder, Scale Computing
Mitch Roob, Indiana Secretary of Commerce
Greg Ballard, Indianapolis Mayor
Joseph Hornett, COO, Purdue Research Foundation
Where:
Scale Computing corporate office, Purdue Research Park at AmeriPlex-Indianapolis
5225 Exploration Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46241
Please RSVP by filling out this Reservation Form at our website.
Sincerely,
The Scale Computing Team
www.scalecomputing.com
1-877-SCALE-59
OneDegree
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.): What Happened to Checks and Balances?!?!?!
I admit: I've been lazy. I know blogs should be updated more than once every month. For that, my apologies. In fact, I've had a couple of people ask me to update it again because they enjoy reading the posts. I didn't know I was that good (it didn't go to my head at all). So, without further a-do...
In my line of work, there are just some things that you try not to bring up when you're talking with clients or perspective clients. Those two industry-standard topics are polictics and religion. While I'm not going to talk about the latter, I feel the need to vent about something that I just read that really sparked the political activist in me. However, with neither time or money on my side to run for office, I'll do the next best thing: let out some linguistic lashes, spread the word, and hope for the best. Emphasize the word hope.
In a recent article, the Washington Post reported that a new spending bill to fund our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been passed in the House by a narrow vote of 226-202. Out of those 226 votes, guess how many were Democratic votes? If you guessed 221, you either read the same article, are psychic, or know how incredibly unbalanced and unchecked our current government is functioning.
221. Out of 226. While my degree was in Human Biology, I did have a math class. Or two. That means that only 5 Republicans voted for this bill. So, to my simple, non-policically informed mind, this just doesn't seem to fit.
What happened? How did we get to a point of not doing what's right or what our constituents want? To the intern who works for a member on Congress reading this, a constituent is the person who is responsible for placing that person in office. Consequently, this enables you to have a what-looks-like a respectable intership for the summer and allows you to wear that J.C. Penny business suit that you got at 60% off the day after Thanksgiving. However, instead of being actively involved in the priorities and agendas of the Congressman(woman), you've been delegated the responsibility of perusing the online portals looking for bad press about your esteemed Congressman (woman).
The value of a constituent was taught to you somewhere between your 8th grade American Government and Politics class and your current internship. It's my only hope that when the office intern of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) Googles her boss in the days to come that Google does its job and crawls this post because I want them to see this. I want them to see the fact that the reason that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) changed her vote from "no" to "yes" was not because it was what she believed was the right decision. It wasn't because it was what her constituents wanted. It wasn't because there were parts of the bill she agreed with. Remember, she originally voted the bill down (she went against President Obama). No, it was because "I want to support my president." Everyone in her district should see this as well. This tells me that their voices don't matter.
"I want to support my president." That's it. What started as a government of checks and balances and doing what we the people wanted has transformed into a popularity contest where members of Congress make decisions to win the smile, blessing, and gratitude of our high leader and Commander in Chief.
The unfortunate (and scary) thing is that I don't see an easy way to change this way of thinking. With that said, I would encourage you to write your representative or senator. I did. 'Took me 10mins. In the time it takes an oven to preheat and bake a pizza you have the opportunity to make your voice be heard. Please make the effort.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) I just had it put it in there one more time. 'Just giving Google a Mulligan in case it missed it the first time.
In my line of work, there are just some things that you try not to bring up when you're talking with clients or perspective clients. Those two industry-standard topics are polictics and religion. While I'm not going to talk about the latter, I feel the need to vent about something that I just read that really sparked the political activist in me. However, with neither time or money on my side to run for office, I'll do the next best thing: let out some linguistic lashes, spread the word, and hope for the best. Emphasize the word hope.
In a recent article, the Washington Post reported that a new spending bill to fund our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been passed in the House by a narrow vote of 226-202. Out of those 226 votes, guess how many were Democratic votes? If you guessed 221, you either read the same article, are psychic, or know how incredibly unbalanced and unchecked our current government is functioning.
221. Out of 226. While my degree was in Human Biology, I did have a math class. Or two. That means that only 5 Republicans voted for this bill. So, to my simple, non-policically informed mind, this just doesn't seem to fit.
What happened? How did we get to a point of not doing what's right or what our constituents want? To the intern who works for a member on Congress reading this, a constituent is the person who is responsible for placing that person in office. Consequently, this enables you to have a what-looks-like a respectable intership for the summer and allows you to wear that J.C. Penny business suit that you got at 60% off the day after Thanksgiving. However, instead of being actively involved in the priorities and agendas of the Congressman(woman), you've been delegated the responsibility of perusing the online portals looking for bad press about your esteemed Congressman (woman).
The value of a constituent was taught to you somewhere between your 8th grade American Government and Politics class and your current internship. It's my only hope that when the office intern of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) Googles her boss in the days to come that Google does its job and crawls this post because I want them to see this. I want them to see the fact that the reason that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) changed her vote from "no" to "yes" was not because it was what she believed was the right decision. It wasn't because it was what her constituents wanted. It wasn't because there were parts of the bill she agreed with. Remember, she originally voted the bill down (she went against President Obama). No, it was because "I want to support my president." Everyone in her district should see this as well. This tells me that their voices don't matter.
"I want to support my president." That's it. What started as a government of checks and balances and doing what we the people wanted has transformed into a popularity contest where members of Congress make decisions to win the smile, blessing, and gratitude of our high leader and Commander in Chief.
The unfortunate (and scary) thing is that I don't see an easy way to change this way of thinking. With that said, I would encourage you to write your representative or senator. I did. 'Took me 10mins. In the time it takes an oven to preheat and bake a pizza you have the opportunity to make your voice be heard. Please make the effort.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) I just had it put it in there one more time. 'Just giving Google a Mulligan in case it missed it the first time.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Swine Flu?!?! Are We Still Doing This??
I've about had it with the media. I can't stand it. Everywhere you turn it seems like the world is coming to the end and the sky is falling. Well, for some Dallas Cowboy personnel and players, it actually was...I'm glad everyone that was involved in that incident is OK.
But regardless of what happened with the Cowboys, it seems as if the media still isn't happy. Forget the fact that they just had the highest ratings and most viewers they've ever had over the last 14 months. Forget the fact that ad sales were higher than normal (even amidst the recession). Evidently, Rupert Murdoch still isn't happy (along with the other media owners and pundits out there). We've now crept into the dark, lonely depths of pandemic scares to sell TV spots and air time.
I can't help but think SARS when I watch the news or read an article in the paper now. We all remember SARS, don't we? Do we? SARS...hmmm. I know it was in Asia...I think. Something to do with breathing?? Birds? No, wait...that was Avian Bird Flu...another one of the last "pandemics" the sweep the globe...
When is it going to stop? When are we going to stop being the scared, ignorant, sheep-behaving public that we are and put things into perspective. Mexico just announced that they have 19 confirmed dead from the Swine Flu (also known as H1N1) and that there are about 787 confirmed cases worldwide. WORLDWIDE!! That's out of a population of about 6.77 billion people. For those of you that can't do quick math in your head, that's about 0.0000001% of the world population that's been INFECTED. As far as the number dead, that's 0.00000000028% of the population, or about the size of an average grade-school classroom.
Really? In Grey's Anatomy language...seriously?? (I'm embarrassed that I know that, but my fiancee is a big fan). I guess all of this news overlooks the fact that between 20,000-30,000 people will die worldwide from other strains of flu this year. Or the fact that 2,300 people have died TODAY from cardiovascular-related diseases (CVD) IN THE U.S. ALONE! And, these are based off of the most recent numbers from 2005, according the American Heart Association. That's about 96 an hour, or, put in a different perspective, that means that in the roughly 25mins it took me to write this, the same number of people that have died from the Swine Flu worldwide have died from CVD. I can see the headlines tomorrow: "Bacon taken off the market because of links to CVD-World Health Organization makes breakthrough correlation."
C'mon, people. Put it all into perspective. Til next time...
But regardless of what happened with the Cowboys, it seems as if the media still isn't happy. Forget the fact that they just had the highest ratings and most viewers they've ever had over the last 14 months. Forget the fact that ad sales were higher than normal (even amidst the recession). Evidently, Rupert Murdoch still isn't happy (along with the other media owners and pundits out there). We've now crept into the dark, lonely depths of pandemic scares to sell TV spots and air time.
I can't help but think SARS when I watch the news or read an article in the paper now. We all remember SARS, don't we? Do we? SARS...hmmm. I know it was in Asia...I think. Something to do with breathing?? Birds? No, wait...that was Avian Bird Flu...another one of the last "pandemics" the sweep the globe...
When is it going to stop? When are we going to stop being the scared, ignorant, sheep-behaving public that we are and put things into perspective. Mexico just announced that they have 19 confirmed dead from the Swine Flu (also known as H1N1) and that there are about 787 confirmed cases worldwide. WORLDWIDE!! That's out of a population of about 6.77 billion people. For those of you that can't do quick math in your head, that's about 0.0000001% of the world population that's been INFECTED. As far as the number dead, that's 0.00000000028% of the population, or about the size of an average grade-school classroom.
Really? In Grey's Anatomy language...seriously?? (I'm embarrassed that I know that, but my fiancee is a big fan). I guess all of this news overlooks the fact that between 20,000-30,000 people will die worldwide from other strains of flu this year. Or the fact that 2,300 people have died TODAY from cardiovascular-related diseases (CVD) IN THE U.S. ALONE! And, these are based off of the most recent numbers from 2005, according the American Heart Association. That's about 96 an hour, or, put in a different perspective, that means that in the roughly 25mins it took me to write this, the same number of people that have died from the Swine Flu worldwide have died from CVD. I can see the headlines tomorrow: "Bacon taken off the market because of links to CVD-World Health Organization makes breakthrough correlation."
C'mon, people. Put it all into perspective. Til next time...
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