National Pond Hockey Championships round-up

We had an incredible time last weekend in Huntsville for the National Pond Hockey Championships.
Most of our wives play on a team in the tournament as well so we all pack up the kids and make a huge family weekend out of it. 
Both our Men’s and Women’s teams did exceptionally well this year. “Ragtime” (my [...]

View from my room: Lotusphere 2009

Photo taken from my room at the Dolphin after the Beach Party on Sunday night at Lotusphere 2009 using…ahem…manual focus.

Top stadium concerts that I REMEMBER being at…

Robert Plant – Principle of Moments … and The Honey Drippers:

Loved Plant in the day!  Honey Drippers was a bonus.

Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet:

I remember most of this show. It was more the antics around the show that puts it in the top list.

Genesis – Mama Tour

My first stadium concert and first exposure to [...]

Where did my GT Snow Racer go?

Ever have one of those moments where you think “what ever happened to my…oh ya!”  Had one of those today.
Growing up in Muskoka, I did a TON of water-skiing.  We would try and water-ski any way we could imagine:  barefoot, elbows and knees, on paddles, lawn chairs on circular pieces of wood, 5 guys on a [...]

Clark the hockey goalie

About a year ago I was introduced to a new prospective customer who wanted to talk about social computing and what Lotus Connections might bring to the table.
As it was a fairly casual atmosphere, our conversation turned, naturally, to hockey. 
“Ya, I’m a goalie” says I.
“Clark the hockey goalie!!” says he. Let me send you a video [...]

Somebody needs to check out the hockey glossary of terms.

I made the resolution to be “more serious” in 2009.  Thankfully there are a few days left in 2008….And this takes a little more explanation than I can do justice to in 140 characters on Twitter.
My wife, Erin, played her first hockey game tonight since giving birth to our 2 month old son.  Having grown [...]

Cult of Personality

How we present ourselves to the online world has been very fascinating to me recently.  Personally, I’m a conflicted beast. I have “Business Dave” and “Private Dave” (kind of like Good Kirk/Bad Kirk or, more accurately,  Ren and Stimpy) that dichotomy endlessly to come to some kind of compromise with everything that I post.

Private Dave say: “oh man…that’s some funny/awesome/scary sh*t.  Gotta [...]

“Boy Eats Own Face” (a.k.a. How to get my attention)

If you want to get my attention and you really need something done, take a lesson from the micro-blogging world:  Get your MAIN message across in under 140 characters.
If you want me to take action, don’t bury the action items at the bottom of a 3 page email.  Put them at the top!!!  Give me the [...]

Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!

When people ask me about my approach to consulting, managing, or sales, I often revert to two analogies to describe how I’ve survived this long and still maintained a small portion of my sanity. (Despite the following evidence to the contrary)
 

1)  Being a Project Manager/Consultant/IT Specialist  is like being a goaltender:
I am a hockey goaltender [...]

I dress my dog in a pumpkin costume

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This is a news article from today’s online  Globe and Mail. (Canadian Newspaper)
How can you ignore a title like that?  The story only gets better…
This may be the only thing that’s made me laugh all day.