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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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The other day I got interviewed by Shel Israel for his The Living Enterprise (TLE) book. He did a really nice job capturing what I have done in the last years. When we talked for 2.5 hours I thought it was all about ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
At SAP TechEd in 2008 in Las Vegas we gave all Community Day participants a harmonica. It was as a way to connect with people. I also believe in the following They Might be Giants quote: Music self-played is happiness self-made.
SAP Mentor Chris Solomon took the following footage from me ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Where did you spend your New Year's eve? Oh well, under the sink ;-)
We came home from our trip to a clogged up sink, or we clogged it up by throwing out leftover food.
I tried chemicals first, which wasn't easy to come by on New Year's Eve close to ...
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance.
If that isn't sad enough. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now does an excellent interview with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Really frustrating facts about the ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I was visiting my mother in the Black Forest and helped get her garden winter ready. After two gratifying and exhausting conferences there is nothing better than spending some time in the fresh air getting dirty in the garden. Highly recommended. Cutting the lawn I can do without though.
I also ...
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
A couple of weeks back I stumbled upon this little video of Bobby McFerrin bringing the audience to sing the pentatonic scale while he is improvising on top of it.
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
His last sentence ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Balsaman was bringing Burningman back to size and smiles at Baker Beach in San Francisco yesterday.
I envision that Burningman many years ago had a similar feeling when they were still doing it in San Francisco.
Best quote of the evening by one of the organizers: Only in San Francisco so many ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Ira Glass and his This American Life team have done it again. This weeks stories about going big, brought me to tears of joy when I heard the one about the Harlem Children Zone:
Act One. Harlem Renaissance.
Paul Tough reports on the Harlem Children’s Zone, and its CEO and president, Geoffrey ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
A nice little stretched picture of our 4th of July Marching Band is on the cover of the San Mateo Highlands equivalent of the Rolling Stones Magazine: The Highlands Lowdown.
I have my hand in the air as if celebrating victory, but it was just signaling to my fellow musicians that ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Super beautiful demonstration of the Pentatonic Scale by Bobby McFerrin. His last comment is especially interesting, that wherever in the world he tries this, the audience is able to sing the pentatonic ...
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