While in San Antonio a week ago, one of our local sales consultants took me to the McNay Art Museum.
The McNay has a beautiful collection of works by well-known masters, but one piece that caught my eye in particular was a Renoir. But it was a Renoir with a difference - it was a sculpture.
Renoir […]

Just finished watching Walk the Line, the life story of Johnny Cash.
The movie was great, Joaquin Phoenix was amazing, Reese Witherspoon was really, really good. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. And the soundtrack was way too good - I couldn’t believe Phoenix and Witherspoon were doing the signing.
One thing that caught our eye […]

Today was fun. The site was down almost all day after a database meltdown.
Fortunately, all seems to be well now (10:30 PM) after a few hours of nail-biting. The most recent backup I had was about a week to 10 days old, so I wasn’t looking forward to having to re-create everything.
Naturally, the first thing […]

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San Antonio has some wonderful architecture, as I’ve previously posted. Here’s another taste.
They seem to like adding funky little additions to existing buildings:

Another one. Perhaps they’re even built at the same time as the main building - but they sure add some flavor to the design.

Lots of pattern and similarity in this government building near […]

Dallas airport is the biggest I’ve ever been in. It’s 4 airports in one, joined by a shuttle train that takes you on perhaps a 15-minute circuit between them all.
The shuttle stations are very modern, very bright, very white, and very minimalist. Here’s a detail of one of them:

OK, so the term web 2.0 sucks, for the exact same reason any other label sucks: it over-generalizes, freezes reality into a limited confine, and means different things to different people.
But if we’re going to have a term (and we do) and we’re going to define it (and we are), then this ought to be […]

I’m finally home from traveling 3 out of the last 4 weeks.
I remember seeing an interesting tutorial a couple of months ago on multiplying people in photographs, and we had a bit of time for fun, so I thought I’d celebrate being home by increasing the number of kids in our home.
Here are Gabrielle and […]

This is the fourth in a series of seminar notes that I’m blogging: good talks I attended while at NAESP in San Antonio.
Before I begin this one, here are all four:

Eric Cupp: touching hearts, changing minds
Christine Todd Whitman: on leadership
Jon Gordon: the energy addict
Glenda Hatchett: a promise to keep

Jon Gordon is an author, presenter, and […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I work for Premier, an educational services company. We provide lifeskills training and tools for over 60,000 schools. This week I travelled to Texas and went with two of our local sales consultants to experience what their life is like.

This is the third in a series of seminar notes that I’m blogging: good talks I attended while at NAESP in San Antonio.
Before I begin this one, here are all four:

Eric Cupp: touching hearts, changing minds
Christine Todd Whitman: on leadership
Jon Gordon: the energy addict
Glenda Hatchett: a promise to keep

Glenda Hatchett was the highest ranking woman […]

This is the second in a series of seminar notes that I’m blogging: good talks I attended while at NAESP in San Antonio.
Before I begin this one, here are all four:

Eric Cupp: touching hearts, changing minds
Christine Todd Whitman: on leadership
Jon Gordon: the energy addict
Glenda Hatchett: a promise to keep

Christine Whitman is a former governor of […]

This is the first in a series of seminar notes that I’m blogging: good talks I attended while at NAESP in San Antonio.
Before I begin this one, here are all four:

Eric Cupp: touching hearts, changing minds
Christine Todd Whitman: on leadership
Jon Gordon: the energy addict
Glenda Hatchett: a promise to keep

Eric’s seminar was one of the best […]

I’ve been waiting for this for a while. Today I finally got my Google Analytics invite.
Installed, collecting data, and we’ll see what we see tomorrow! Right now, of course, having installed it literally a minute or two ago, I’m completely flatlining:

Saw this guy and his heavily customized motorcycle in downtown San Antonio today.
He rode all the way up from South America, and is collecting cash to take him and his bike all the way up to Alaska, and then to Europe.
Yes, that’s real flame - he presses a button and the dragon breathes fire!

San Antonio seems to be a city of churches.
Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, Roman Catholic: you name it, there’s a great old church here in San Antonio.
Appropriate enough for a city named after a saint, and founded as a missionary post, I guess.
Early this afternoon, I couldn’t resist taking a snap of this precious little girl sitting […]

OK, three guesses: what is this building?

It’s not a factory.
It’s not a warehouse.
Not a school.
And no, not an office building either.
It’s a close-up look of the structures immediately above the back entrance of First Baptist Church of San Antonio, where I went to church this morning. It’s an immense conglomeration of buildings that goes back […]

Met these three young men - US Marines - on the streets in San Antonio early this afternoon. In a couple of days, they’re deploying to Iraq.

I shook each 18, 19-year-old’s hand, and told them I respected what they were doing. And I offered a prayer for their safety.
. . .
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By […]

Part of what makes a city a great city is its architecture.
You can have great architecture without a great city, but you can’t have a great city without great architecture.
When I travel, I love to experience the new place. And it becomes a special experience when the place has a style all it’s own. San […]