How many people live in our area?

Jochen and I were wondering about this as we flew back from the TDWI conference in Chicago.

Answer? 5.3M or 8.2M depending on which area you are talking about.

Phew

One can so easily be reminded of the important things in life.

Suhrud is keeping a cool head while his son gets past a fever. Nice work on the documented advice.

Moving right along

The move of boxes and etc went well, we have almost everything over at Lillian Court now, excepting some clothes and a few dishes, the cats and us.

Large furniture move occurs on Sat 10th May and that will be the end of things, thank goodness. On the 10th we will have to be careful on our route West. It is Arlington Day, and some central Arlington roads will be closed. Seems to me we will use U. S. Route 50 West (the same one that runs all the way to California!) and then the Beltway inner loop up to Virginia State Route 267 West. More on those plans Wednesday and Thursday.

I set up the computer at the new place and it works well, though of course now it is living at the other place so no computer in the evenings in Arlington for us. I posted the pics we used to document the scratches, defects, etc on flickr, but we will post nice pics sometime soon.  If we can find the camera charger, maybe we will even post moving day shots!

At lunchtime today I will call Dominion Power to make sure the account is transferred to my name. Washington Gas is done, and goodness me they took a time!

A Quick Thank You

Thank you to all those wonderful people who sent me gifts, cards, or a little email or blog posting of best wishes for my birthday last weekend.

My apologies for not writing much sooner, but as you may know - we're moving! :)  I promise to write more soon.

Time for a cup of coffee before we hit the road!

Much love,

Chris

Seth Godin on RFPs

Money Quote:

"The RFP is an organizational punt, it's a way of saying, 'it's all a commodity, we can't decide, cheap guy wins.'

The cheap guy, of course, never wins."

Pithy Seth. Hmm, now say that six times fast :)

Maybe Just the Thing for a friend in need

So earlier this week a friend asked for some career advice. This morning I find Garr Reynolds' super review and lovely short presentation on the wonderful new career book by Dan Pink. First watch the video trailer for this book:

Then take 5 minutes to check out the presentation. 5 Minutes? Yes. Even with 184 Slides? Yes. Maybe you might find value in Garr's tips on presenting as well :)

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Lillian Court

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It's mostly empty, with some boxes. I'm tired. More tomorrow.