tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:13:00 +0000CREDO INVENTIOhttp://www.fawce.com/noreply@blogger.com (fawce)Blogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-1751716968260946445Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:12:00 +00002010-02-04T12:56:35.498-05:00The centerpiece of Obama's job plan is green technology and renewable energy. The idea is to focus on a critical need and develop a domestic industry that will both make us less dependent on foreign oil and create new jobs.It is a nice idea, but it will not create jobs on a large scale. There may be a new job sector in research and development, but the manufacturing jobs will go to China.The http://www.fawce.com/2010/02/mr-president-automate-manufacturing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-2676632634120281067Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:05:00 +00002010-01-26T23:18:34.488-05:00"The Fighter" is about Mickey Ward, a guy who is the same vintage Lowellian as my dad.I really hope the movie is good. There have been other movies filmed in Lowell, but this one is actually about Lowell.http://www.fawce.com/2010/01/movie-about-lowell-sweet-lowell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-5812155190975700332Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:41:00 +00002010-01-05T10:50:13.756-05:00NagiosImage via WikipediaI've always encouraged our development team to contribute back to open source projects. One of our favorite open source tools is Nagios - we use it to monitor health and performance of our globally distributed appliances. Nagios provides a web based console that we use in our NOC. The console is useful, but has had some performance drags as we've really scaled up. The best http://www.fawce.com/2010/01/tamaleadvent-patch-accept-to-nagios.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-7235635755063078562Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:28:00 +00002009-11-30T20:32:09.531-05:00This is Jack. Jack found a huge tub of vaseline in his room. For those lucky parents with curious children who smear huge quantities of vaseline into their hair, use baby oil as a solvent on the vaseline, and use a degreasing soap, such as dish detergent, to remove the oil. Only took two hours that way.http://www.fawce.com/2009/11/this-is-jack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-3813108679856808073Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:01:00 +00002009-11-06T18:05:12.292-05:00After waiting what seemed like an eternity, Caitie was able to hold Rocks. Here they are together at last - it is hard to say which of them enjoyed this more. http://www.fawce.com/2009/11/caitie-holds-rocco-for-first-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-4177684208905371478Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:05:00 +00002009-11-02T09:15:48.882-05:00Welcome to the RockThe little big man turned up at 8lbs 7oz, 20.5". So, slightly bigger than his big brother out of the gates. Under that cap is a huge tuft of black hair, and his eyes are brown. http://www.fawce.com/2009/11/rocco-cornelius-fawcett.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-5207990495622982813Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:58:00 +00002009-08-19T18:01:46.155-04:00I've seen this guy around town since I've lived here during college. I always knew him as Woah-Woah Guy, but apparently he has several nom de guerre - tricycle man, siren guy. A full documentary on him and his performance art would be phenomenal.http://www.fawce.com/2009/08/woah-woah-guy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-678044617008324109Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:32:00 +00002009-08-19T11:33:13.088-04:00http://www.fawce.com/2009/08/sleep-eating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-9151125591564405811Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:25:00 +00002009-08-12T13:28:51.523-04:00My friend Trey just released his second video. Pretty funny lyrics... From the youtube posting:"Featuring Trey Green and Cynthia Kirchner. Shot on location at 5 Pointz, www.5ptz.com Directed by Theo Avgerinos"http://www.fawce.com/2009/08/trey-green-smooth-break-dancin-guy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-6718303124980768885Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:49:00 +00002009-04-28T13:09:31.386-04:00The current administration has established a website to track the stimulus spending: http://www.recovery.gov. In addition there is a discussion site for technology ideas to promote transparency and openness in the stimulus spending: http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/.I submitted an idea, based on my professional work: The Government should use a Research Management Solution to make their http://www.fawce.com/2009/04/recovery-dialogue-information.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-1358660050647859897Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:11:00 +00002009-03-17T23:09:16.954-04:00DraftDude.com is a website that algorithmically determines optimal roto baseball draft order. The algorithm uses the rules of your league, like the number of teams, number of players per position, scored statistics and so on. Then you can edit the statistical projections for each player, and see how it affects the ranking. The concept is pretty cool, and since some leagues become nearly full http://www.fawce.com/2009/03/draftdude-fantasy-baseball-draft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-3780187451459132253Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:38:00 +00002009-03-03T21:41:58.615-05:00Image via WikipediaIn college I saw a mail-away font creation service, and I always wanted to digitize my own hen scratching. So I am definitely trying this out: http://www.veryshortlist.com/web/daily.cfm/review/1044/Website/your-fonts/ http://www.fawce.com/2009/03/instant-make-your-own-fonts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-7489203863981294081Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:39:00 +00002009-03-03T18:42:23.438-05:00Advent Tamale launched RMS4.0, and we have some nice press. We keep our development pipeline about 2 or 3 releases deep at any one time. So, in my memory, RMS4.0 seems like ages ago even though it is launching now. http://www.fawce.com/2009/03/tamale-in-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-8705023068005601540Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:06:00 +00002009-02-04T15:11:48.121-05:00Silver Lining is a cloud computing user group here in Boston. On February 10th, I'm presenting Tamale's Delta platform, which is cloud technology for financial applications.The financial industry adds a number of significant complexities for cloud computing, most notably the legal issues surrounding privacy. Advent Tamale's approach is to extend the cloud services into the client's firewall usinghttp://www.fawce.com/2009/02/presenting-at-silver-lining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-6742641695615786002Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:51:00 +00002009-01-25T09:57:10.686-05:00DeficitGovernmentEconomicImage via WikipediaScary, but fascinating, article describing bond traders' increasing cynicism for swelling national deficits and debts all over the world. http://www.fawce.com/2009/01/bailouts-threaten-nations-debt-ratings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-577596174611509480Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:26:00 +00002009-01-25T09:30:42.523-05:00CrunchBase is a wiki-style company database. My company, Advent Software, has an entry there.CrunchBase InformationAdvent SoftwareInformation provided by CrunchBasehttp://www.fawce.com/2009/01/crunchbase-cb-entry-for-advent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-8853757308310802831Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:21:00 +00002008-12-28T21:23:11.349-05:00The Bent Fawcett Madera, all-singing, all-dancing, Christmas Extravaganza on Ice:http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/christmas-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-5078004717944514495Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:13:00 +00002008-12-28T20:15:08.977-05:00No one was injured in the course of this haircut: http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/jackies-first-haircut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-8538558334084878251Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:17:00 +00002008-12-05T15:40:14.702-05:00The lack of capital barriers for internet startups means more competition for internet startups. Funding used to be a differentiating factor; it just isn't anymore. VC needs to refocus on capital hungry areas like alternative energy and healthcare. The founder mentality needs to be imbued into graduating chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, biologists and physicists. We need thousands of http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/could-vc-be-casualty-of-recesssion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-4203742642457492645Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:00 +00002008-12-05T15:42:03.974-05:00Maybe tt and I should hold a healthcare party? http://www.wsj.com/article/SB122844800734282227.htmlhttp://www.fawce.com/2008/12/daschle-launches-push-for-health-care.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-2683097205925565011Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:09:00 +00002008-12-03T17:14:02.091-05:00Everbody loves a winner. What's the most popular irish blessing? "May you have no idea how to make a long story short."http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/obama.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-8271461875035967702Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:24:00 +00002008-12-02T18:24:06.594-05:00From the article: "Some suspect it is a ploy to defuse social tension at a time of financial crisis and to deflect attention from the closely watched trial of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya." Boy it is tense these days. You know people are stressed out when a highly publicized beating softens the public mood. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122825510348273603.html?mod=http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/journalists-beating-draws-kremlins-ire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-8372967966707849584Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:51:00 +00002008-12-01T21:00:48.829-05:00Wordle generates word clouds for any snippet of text or url. Here's the wordle of fawce.com for today:http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/wordle-is-cool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-340631579212142951Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:22:00 +00002008-12-01T16:26:42.542-05:00A Crude Awakening paints a bleak picture for the supply of oil. Or, more poignantly, the bleakness of a world without abundant and cheap energy. The point ignored by the film, though, is the abundance of coal in the US. The most effective means of realizing the energy potential in coal is electric power plants. This is an unattractive option, because of the dire environmental impact, and the http://www.fawce.com/2008/12/crude-awakening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3530543.post-5666234249270921788Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:00 +00002008-11-28T14:11:15.095-05:00My first principle for American health care policy is all tax payers should have _the best possible_ health care. In modern society I believe health care should be a fundamental benefit of society, not a privilege. But, the question is: how can we guarantee coverage and still promote a competitive dynamic to drive American medicine to be the finest possible care? To start, we completely http://www.fawce.com/2008/11/my-health-care-plan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (fawce)4