o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley.”  Or, in slightly more modern parlance: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”  Or, perhaps more succinctly, (and slightly less profane than I sometimes feel) “Stuff Happens.”* What bring about this measure of speculative reflection on ancient Scottish poetry?  Quite simply, hosting woes.  It [...]

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on the importance of the Small Business in the United States.  In time of economic woe, the import of the SMB cannot be understated.  Early next week I will share some of the most interesting information that I have found during the [...]

I have spent much of the last week focusing on preparing content for the upcoming training events…My office mate, in an effort to keep me from grumbling too much, recommended a quick Starbucks. Caffeine is my friend.  My close friend. Imagine our surprise when we reached the main level of the building (our office is [...]

After writing a, very, lengthy post about my experience at Finovate. . .I was bitten by a bug. You may notice that the look of the blog is rather different than the past.  It would seem that my heavily hacked template didn’t like the length of posts and managed to corrupt the html elements that [...]

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I had the opportunity to present in the Microsoft booth at this year’s NRF.  Over the next few days, I will be blogging about some of the more interesting booths and presentations at the show. In the interim, I have embedded the slides from this presentation after the [...]