Over the last 18 years, we’ve investigated putting solar panels on our house many times. Unfortunately, there are many reasons we have not installed them: The house is facing the wrong direction, we can get around this by putting the panels at an inclined angle, but living in the Hurricane state, this would be like […]
Author: Michael Rowe
Freedom of the Press
This will be a biased blog post. The bias will be mine. The bias is formed by my life, my education, and my beliefs. When the United States was young, very young, we wrote a document called “The Constitution“. The purpose of this document was to correct the many problems that were identified by our […]
A feel good movie, but so much more
This past weekend I finally got to see the movie “Hidden Figures” – the true story of three African American women in the 1960s who worked at NASA and helped send John Glenn into orbit, and safely back to earth. As you may know, I work at IBM, and IBM helped provide some resources for […]
Latest Musings (January 2017)
OK, this post may rub people the wrong way, but my goal for this blog has always been away of thinking out loud. My thoughts are just that, my thoughts. We have just witnessed a huge, tremendous, historic election and inauguration. Well, it wasn’t huge in turn out, with a lot of people sitting out […]
Happy New Year
Welcome 2017.
2016 The year in Review
Wow, what a year 2016 has been! While politics and work have had their major ups and downs, I did get a ton of good reading in this year. I figured a great way to wrap up the year would be to go back thru the books and just think about them here. Enjoy. January […]
Monday morning
Recently the cartoon Dilbert posted the following. This strip has consistently done a good job of pointing out the challenges and realities of the modern corporate world. What I liked about this strip was the tension that we see between engineering and marketing. This same tension can be seen between development and sales, management and […]
Post Thanksgiving Thoughts
This morning I made it to the Gym and got a nice mile long swim in. All the lanes of the pool were full, which is not the usual case when I get my swim in, so I am thankful that not everyone gorged themselves yesterday to the point of not being able to do […]
10 years of Podcasting
While recording my podcast this week over at Games At Work dot Biz I realized that I have been doing podcasts for over 10 years now. It all started with my current Co-host Michael Martine and I putting together an audio recording to promote a project we had for work. We called it Project Wookie, […]
iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode
It didn’t take Apple long to release a new beta that supports Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. As someone who likes taking depth of field pictures with a DSLR, I couldn’t resist. The feature does show amazing promise: The above grid shows two sample shots, one in bright sunlight and the other in […]