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Thought Sparks

Thought Sparks

http://www.thoughtsparks.net

Thoughtsparks - Igniting Ideas for the Common Good. Thoughtsparks.net is about trends in technology, new ideas and thoughts on being productive and taking looking at quirky things through a creative lense.

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  • KOA in Abilene, TX is OK

    Posted on Friday July 4th, 2008 at 21:59 in

    Finding it a challenge to get good honest reviews of decent destinations on the web for overnight stays, I want to give a thumbs-up to the KOA in Abilene. Too many KOA campgrounds I’ve seen have been little more than a wide spot in the road. Th...

  • Lessons Learned from Leading a Team

    Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 05:24 in , ponderings, productivity

    Being a leader is an interesting and challenging responsibility, but leading a cross-departmental team where influencing an already busy group of folks kicks it up a notch. For the last couple of months I’ve been leading an intranet implementat...

  • Acrobat 9 is PDF on Steroids

    Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 09:36 in

    Just released, Adobe Acrobat 9 is a major upgrade offering many slick new features such as: Play media within the document. Acrobat will now convert MOV, WMV, FLV and H.264 files to Flash to for playing audio and video content. Easy file conversion ...

  • Tribal Language

    Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2008 at 07:45 in , productivity

    This morning I dropped into Starbucks for a non-fat GRTL (Green Tea Latte).  Vicariously I’m learning what one Barista called Starbonics, the tribal language of Starbucks. Tribal languages abound in every organization. To communicate effec...

  • Is it the GWW instead of the WWW?

    Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 09:06 in , Just For Fun

    Maybe Tim Berners-Lee the man credited with the invention of the World Wide Web (not our buddy Al Gore) was actually not thinking big enough. Will the web shortly be renamed Galaxy-Wide Web? It seems that Google has their sites set on taking the web ...

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This blog is currently rated a 10.00 out of a possible 10 based on 3 comments.

thoughtsparks

Philip Stolle Said:

Sharon, thanks for your very kind words. Great to have you stop by.

DiamondVVV1, I'm a slacker in responding so slowly, but I appreciate your comments and kindred pursuit for "That Place". Elusive at times isn't it?

Rating: 10 | Posted: Thursday June 21st, 2007 at 22:42 | More Reviews From thoughtsparks | Report This Comment

sherbert

Sharon Said:

Excellent blog - lots of useful and insightful tips. And your daughter's a great writer too!

Rating: 10 | Posted: Thursday June 21st, 2007 at 22:30 | More Reviews From sherbert | Report This Comment

DiamondVVV1

DiamondVVV1 Said:

Love your site -- we all look for "That Place" anywhere we can find it!

Rating: 10 | Posted: Monday May 28th, 2007 at 21:46 | More Reviews From DiamondVVV1 | Report This Comment

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