by Dwayne Phillips We often give power and control to our surroundings. This change of words returns those to me. I have heard it many times and said it a few times. Things like: I am under a lot of stress. This is a stressful situation. The stress here is too much. Let’s look at […]
Entries from March 2010
Stressful Situation – Another Reframe
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Change · Choose · Reframe · Writing
Windows 7 and HP Printers
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I now have a computer in the kitchen that runs Windows 7 and Fedora. If HP would just update their printer driver… I have finally upgraded my kitchen computer to Windows 7. This machine now is dual boot-able with Windows 7 and Fedora 11 (see this old post for the background). I […]
Tags: Learning · OS X · Technology
Engineers and Their Babies
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Engineers create wonderful things now and then. Oblivious users turn the creations upside down and use them backwards. Such oblivious use teaches great lessons that smart organizations use before going to production. Engineers have their babies. Not the human kind of baby, though some engineers have those, too, but the system-that-they-create kind […]