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May 2008 - Posts

Friday, May 30, 2008 9:30 AM

Doesn't Apply to ETC

I may work in a cubicle here, but it definitely doesn't feel like this . I think somebody must have been weary of this chart when our building was designed. Hence the many common areas, conference rooms with windows, the deli , the picnic blankets.....
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:04 PM

Lightfair Report

We're here at Lightfair debuting the new Unison Paradigm and Smartlink systems and the report is: All is good! Wednesday was a great day with customers packing the booth to get a look at the new hardware and extended demos of the new software. This is
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:59 AM

The 95% - 5% rule

This week I regailed two co-workers in my office about something I have often pondered about my life in business. It seems like I spend most of my time persuading others to do things. These "things" may be making changes, taking a new course, stopping
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:02 AM

SNAP! Are you focusing on the right things?

Any Harvard Business Review readers in the audience today? Before I started working at ETC, I wouldn't have raised my hand and wouldn't have felt like I was missing anything relevant to me. Now, after reading through a few issues passed on to me by a
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:35 PM

Shining Light On: African Ingenuity

Here's something that should get the attention of the R&D crowd (I think they're reading this blog...): Found by way of Signal vs. Noise, this post shares some of the more fascinating highlights from a site titled, "AfriGadget", where contributors
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:20 PM

Wildwood Energy--It's getting wild!

David talked about our gearing up for Lightfair and the exciting new products that we'll be showing there. Back in the R&D department, those products are known by their code name: Wildwood. The R&D and Manufacturing teams are in "total immersion
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:34 PM

Dave & Company Keep Outdoing Themselves

Over the past handful of days the Broadway Deli in Town Square has featured an impressive run of lunch cuisine, including grilled hamburgers (like, actually grilled, by Dave) on May 6, teriyaki chicken sandwiches on May 12, and a double-whammy of baked
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:50 PM

The Geek Section of Light Minds

We have lots of smart people at ETC, all of whom are passionate about something . How about Tim Nolan, an engineer that built his own electric pickup truck before anyone had heard of alternative vehicle power? Or David North, who knows more about old
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:13 AM

Hello Again...

Hello everyone! Long time, No blog. Maybe you were a reader of my blog during 2006 and 2007? Well – if you were you probably noticed it fall apart after LDI 2007. I cracked under the pressure! But we have re-worked our approach now and I am glad to be
Posted by dlincecum | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:49 AM

Internet Philosophy

We were shooting some video yesterday for a web project, and found ourselves struggling to produce a smooth teleprompter effect with a projected view of a standard word processing application. If only there were free online teleprompter services... A
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Friday, May 02, 2008 1:32 PM

Shining Light On: "Saving Seconds"

There are dozens upon dozens of my coworkers at ETC who are more qualified to discuss tricks to working quickly on lighting control consoles, but that concept shot right to mind when reading a new post on one of my personal favorite blogs, "Rands in Repose".
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