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  • Composite Applications and SOA

    This idea is really starting to take off but like many terms in the IT industry there is mass confusion about what it really means. First of all, this concept is not new. Those of us doing Service Orientation before Web Services were also doing Composite...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-09-2006
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  • Set Love Free!

    I hate American Airlines… really. I’ve was booked on the 11:20 AM from SEA to DFW this morning for over a week. Last night when I called to get an upgrade for BZ & I everything seemed fine. I checked-in fine at kiosk but Brandon didn’t...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-08-2006
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  • My Favorite Steakhouses

    BZ and I hit the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle last night, which prompted me to compile a list of my favorite high-end steakhouses and the cities where I visited them. Sullivan’s: ORD,DFW,AUS – This is the best food and price performer in...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-07-2006
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  • Netgear XE104

    So, as you can tell my wife let me go nuts this Christmas and Birthday season. My last purchase was the Netgear XE104 Wall Plug. I used to have my home office upstairs near the front of the house, so that's where Verizon put in the FiOS drop and the packaged...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-06-2006
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  • Coopetition

    This is a word I haven't heard before and I usually pitch a fit about marketing slang like this but "coopetition" really makes sense when you think about the relationship between Microsoft and IBM in the SOA space. Sure they compete on products but they...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-06-2006
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  • BloggerBear is back up!

    In case you were wondering what happened, I completely hosed my site and had to rebuild from scratch. The bad news is that I lost all my post history. The good news is that I saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. :) I think there are...
    Posted to Comfortably Dumb by Chris on 01-04-2006
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