http://www.lutton.org Shea's thoughts Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:17:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love the software from the crew at Omni. Love it. Passionately, wholeheartedly love it. I work with computers 24 hours a day and I sleep with one inches from my head. For me to love software it has to be magical. So when I heard that Omni is releasing ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=17 I have had a busy past year. Reviewing the old blog I realized how little time I have made to reflect on where I am going at the moment. Too busy charging ahead. The job at Sun Trading, marathon training and now business school has really limited my ability to ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=16 I got a phone call yesterday from the admissions director of the Kellogg School of Business. She told me she had good news, that I was accepted to grad school. I was so excited I tuned out for a second on the phone until I realized that she was still ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=15 Well, I got a new job and I am pretty darn excited. I have had a lot of fun at Star Farm but it is the right time to move on. I start my new job on Wednesday the 30th and I will post more info then about the position. ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=14 I went to a networking event hosted by the Executives Club of Chicago on Thursday and I found the experience to be mostly awkward. I discovered a log time ago that when I meet people, I like to get to know them. I realize that many people just don't like ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=13 It makes sense now. Garmin owns MotionBased and is simply using them to extract more money from the owners of their systems. If you want more function than you can get with Garmin's included software, you can pay Garmin for their web tools. It is also why there was no ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=12 I am training for the Helsinki Marathon in August with two friends in different parts of the world. We have all run together before but we are no longer in the same place. During previous runs we all became addicted to GPS watches to help with training and so we ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=11 Saw a really cool tool today called Jott.com. This web app lets you call a number and record a message that it automatically transcribes and emails to whomever you specified. So I could call the number, say I had a message for Izzy, say the message and hang up. Jott ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=10 Ug, just ran nine miles wanted to stop at mile four don't run hung over. http://www.lutton.org/?p=9 The Chicago Tech Cocktail was held last night and it was quite a bit of fun. Lots of smart people showed up and there was good conversation and free beer to be had. I met some smart guys working on distributed data centers, disaster recovery, web design, baby sitting and ... http://www.lutton.org/?p=8