The Georgia (Atlanta) Aquarium

This week we traveled to Atlanta for the HIMSS2010 conference. HIMSS is the largest healthcare technology tradeshow in the world, and Sentry has been exhibitor for the past two years. I usually go a day early to assist in any way I can, but The Wife and I were able to steal away [...]

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Country Driving – A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

I first heard about Peter Hessler’s book “Oracle Bones” from my mom.  She was reading through it and enjoying it immensely, and she recommended it profusely.  I promptly ignored her for a year, until I managed to read a corroborating review from somewhere.  I picked up both of his books at the time, “River Town” [...]

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VMWare Fusion 3 and Windows 7

I recently upgrade VMWare Fusion to version 3.  VMWare has steadily increased the stability and featureset of this product, and I appreciated it how they gave us early adopters free upgrades to version 2, but I guess that all ended recently.
One really cool new feature is something I stumbled upon after I upgraded my hard [...]

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The North Korean State of Mind

The Wife and I watched a 2004 documentary over the weekend titled “A State of Mind” that was incredibly enthralling.  I’ve never been to North Korea, but I’ve known many South Koreans, and I’ve seen a few collections of photographs from various travelers that have managed to make it to the country over the last [...]

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Book Review: When China Rules the World

Reading is one of my favorite things to do, and it’s become harder and harder to make time for books over the last few years.  However, over Christmas I was given Martin Jacques’ book  “When China Rules the World” and I read most of it on the six flights we took over the holidays.
This is [...]

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