One week after the Door County Century (nearly) and I’m finally getting around to writing about it. In short – it was a great ride, a wonderful cap-stone to the cycling season; but I’m jumping ahead. The night before, Erik, Monica, LeRoy, Ena, Barbara and I had dinner of a lot of spaghetti and bread … Continue reading
I love making galettes – a french free-form tart. This is a peak of Summer galette made from local plums and raspberries. Once you get galette making down, you can create galettes with lots of different fillings: Apples and toasted pecans, peaches with almonds, blueberries with lemon. This takes few hours to make but much … Continue reading
I’m sure that sport psychologists / physiologists have a name and maybe a reason for these feelings… I’m getting ready to ride the Door County Century this weekend. This means that I have spent the last couple of months riding longer rides and building up time in the saddle. I was up to about 190 … Continue reading
I got a new Garmin EDGE 705 bike computer about 6 weeks ago. I’ve been riding 3 or 4 times a week with Garmin and have synced to several applications and a web site. The Garmin EDGE 705 has great bells and whistles but the basic function, turn-by-turn directions, is buggy and unreliable. What I … Continue reading
The sauce and spice mix add a little heat and sweetness to the already sweet scallops. This recipe takes about 15 minutes to prep and 10 minutes to cook. I served these with a cold Green and White bean salad and crostini and an Italian white wine. This serves two as a main course or … Continue reading
I get Frazz Hair when I bike. I view Frazz Hair as a measure of the quality of the ride. Good Frazz Hair means I had a good ride. This is an example of good Frazz Hair: This hair came from a beautiful ride to Paoli, WI after a Summer rain storm. The roads were … Continue reading
UPDATE: June 25th. We now have 28 counties declared as disaster areas by FEMA. When we get serious Spring weather, we get weather sites that look like this: 7 Warnings, Watches and Statements on the Weather.gov forecast A weather map that is covered, jigsaw like, with areas of watches and warnings across the surrounding 25 … Continue reading
Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. Understanding how … Continue reading
I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat Vegetables. Before … Continue reading
Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie. Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments
