Month: May 2005

Finished!

One of my colleagues and I have written a series of articles about “Needless Complexity”, and the last one was finally published today on IBM’s Think Research website.

The four articles are:

[Updated, November 12, 2014: The articles on Think Research have vanished; I’ve reposted them here.]

And the nice folks at Magnolia Audio-Video just called to let me know that the TV is fixed and wanting to arrange a delivery time. I’m afraid it’s going to take longer to arrange the delivery than it took them to repair the TV, since I’m stuck in all-day meetings at work for the next few days.

50 is better

Magnolia showed up on time this afternoon and took our TV away; they left us a Samsung HLN507 as a loaner. It’s slightly smaller than our TV, but it’s very nice to have a big screen again.

It took me a while to get the Harmony 688 remote set up for the loaner, but I’ve mostly got it behaving.

Passover is over, and as if in celebration, a new KrispyKreme has opened in Saratoga, a mile or so from the YMCA. If I were to walk from the Y to the KrispyKreme, I’d probably break even on the calories, too.