moving to wordpress and a new URL- April 26, 2007 This blog has moved to http:egrigg9000.commealhttp://www.egrigg9000.com/mtpub/archives/1635.html I'm being de-hyphenated, going blue, a blue badge, FTE- April 24, 2007 Monday April 30 will be my first day as an employee at Microsoft. I will be continuing the role I had just last week as a contractor. I am thrilled. Since this blog is not about my specific career, I would be happy to talk to people about my role offline. I will continue to discuss the issues of work life balance, and what it means to have good design support that balance, in gory detail right here in "the other fourth meal." I may change the URL to something more spunky, though, and..http://www.egrigg9000.com/mtpub/archives/1634.html hawaiian red sea salt- April 8, 2007 Luxury comes in many forms. Material luxury we are all familiar with, the trappings surrounding the images we see on screens and in magazines. There is the luxury of experience, such as the image of the dual bathtubs in the viagra ad. Luxury has a formula, roughly that you must get something undefined by paying more than 10x the normal market price for something. Any luxury manufacturer knows that when you try to pin down, to justify, that undefined element, that is the point when the ship is...http://www.egrigg9000.com/mtpub/archives/1633.html red robin- April 2, 2007 As I explained today in a "community connection" with a friend from the retreat, "Just because I eat at Red Robin, doesn't mean that I will abandon myself forever." Abandoning yourself is the phrase that encompasses the activities you rely on when you are not getting enough nurturing from your life, and not setting any limits, and pretty much doing the thing you know makes things worse but doing it anyway since you're pretty sure you have to do something to respond to the...http://www.egrigg9000.com/mtpub/archives/1632.html |