Rules of Life: Instant Messaging

| July 28, 2009

I haven’t done a Rules of Life in a while, but we just got an email from Accenture about “IM Etiquette” so I couldn’t resist re-posting it here.  I’ve paraphrased a bit to protect the innocent, but I do think our CIO has been reading my past posts on Rules of Life … cause this one [...]

Rules of Life: Mobile Phone Use

| May 27, 2009

You all know that I love cell phones.  I scour sites like precentral, endgadget, phonescoop on a daily basis looking for the latest tidbits of news, reviews, and gimmicks.  However, even though I lust for technology innovation, I still recognize the restrictions and regulations society is owed (i.e. one conversation at a time people.  If ordering food, lose the [...]

Rules of Life: Family Vacation

| April 2, 2009

Well, Lindsey and I are off to Florida for a weekend of sun, surf, babies and retirees … who could ask for anything better than that??  Sure the weather is supposed to be 50 degrees warmer than Minneapolis, Lindsey’s root canal diet has her looking slammin in a swimsuit, and I need a vacation to [...]

Rules of Life: Sin City

| March 27, 2009

Now that I have made it out alive from my 6th trip to Las Vegas, I can look back and reflect on how I have managed to work the system well enough to survive.  And by “the system”, I don’t mean the casinos.  You can’t work them, they always win!  But rather all the other [...]