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My recent internal deliberations on what to replace my ailing computer setup has led to quite a few false starts on what I put into my virtual shopping cart.

Like a lot of Apple fans, I watched the presentation by Tim Cook and Co. last Tuesday about Apple’s new fall product releases.

For a while I've been training in Tae Kwon Do.1 Most of the training has been the physical side of martial arts and self defense.

One of the tenets I teach about reporting in Maximo is to look for the exceptions in the data, not the data itself.

One area I've loved since my AOL days was getting better information on computers and tech gadgets from online sources.

To say our household is a Marvel household, you only have to look at the serious discussions we have around the dinner table.1 The most recent discussion was: What it would take to see see the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in the fewest movies possible?

One of the complaints of using a software platform for a long time is you eventually say, I wish we had this feature when we got started.

My writing tools are varied based on where/how I'm writing - laptop vs iPad vs iPhone.

My company has recently been challenged with how we're using Maximo.

First off, shout out to Bruno Portaluri (@bportaluri) for this tip.

One of the challenges in my Maximo environment is an efficient way to keep and store 'living documents'.

First and foremost, The Division is a looter shooter.

One of the big differences between The Division and Destiny is your character in The Division (TD) starts out "classless".

A lot of my gaming friends2 picked up The Division when it first came out and then dropped off when the game became a bit of a mess.

My company recently migrated from Maximo 7.5 to 7.6. 1 One of the challenges an administrator has with a new version of Maximo is adjusting screens that come over as part of the upgrade.

A recent tweet from IBM on Maximo was technote about how a work order could be cancelled, even if materials were charged against the WO and recorded in the Actuals tab.

I was recently asked a very specific request from an end user about a date format in a report.

With iOS 11 now out, a lot of my fellow geeks have been going on about the drag and drop features with split view on iPad. 1 iMore recently had a post about using Split View on macOS.

Community It’s not normally the word you’d think of when describing your experiences at a conference.

So it was 10y ago today 3 that I got my first iPhone.

One of the best features in Maximo is to give users dynamic feedback on a record using the Conditional UI functionality in Maximo 7.x.

Over the years I've learned to pick up ideas and advice from wherever I can find it.

Back in October, Apple released a new version of the MacBook Pro (MBP).

With Age of Triumph comes the revival of some old time favorite weapons.

In the world of email and tweets, you sometimes can get some interesting information from some unusual places.

My preferred learning method is to get a good example of how to do something and work on extending the example to do what I really want it to do.

One of the changes I've been trying to adopt with shifting more of my workflows to my iPad has been to also move to my scripting from Pythonista to Pythonista 3.

This post is more for me to have a public reference point when I have this problem again. 1 Out of the box, Word 2016 for macOS has a problem of not showing the header or footer when you create a new document.

Sometimes a great idea isn't your own.

When I started thinking about going iPad only, I knew typing only on the screen keyboard was not going to be an option.

Sometimes you go out to try something new.

The great folks at Fastmail are at it again and they are running their annual Advent blog again this year.

Something has been wrong in my world for a while now.

If you're an Apple fanboy, the last couple of months have been pretty hard to take.

One of the challenges Maximo administrators face is getting a good user to get to the next level of experience in using Maximo.

I've been holding off on buying a 2nd PS4 for sometime now.

I've been using Maximo's email listener to help shift requests getting emailed directly to the Maintenance Manager and Supervisors and into an inbox that can be managed by the entire maintenance department.

There are only a few things in this world that really get under my skin.

Back in April there was quite a kerfuffle over Smile Software's move to a subscription based payment for Text Expander.

Bungie originally released Destiny on Sep 9, 2014.

One of the first rules I learned when creating reports was to get your report's select statement to do as much of the work for you.

Bungie held their 3rd and final Twitch stream 1 before the April Update drops.

Just a quick housekeeping note, but I've moved my RSS feed off of FeedBurner and will now generate the feed myself.

One task a reliability team should do on a regular basis is sitting down to discuss the trends of any metrics or scorecards being kept on their program.

Bungie had its 2nd of the 3 Twitch streams related to the upcoming April Update.

The bane and beauty of the Internet is that you can turn one corner and find someone who thinks just like you and then turn another corner to find someone in your opposing corner.

If you're a Destiny fan, you've probably already heard the news that Bungie is releasing an update on 4/12 for Destiny - The Taken King.

Traveling and gaming don't always mix well together.

A couple of weeks ago, Ole Zorn tweeted out something very interesting.

Normally I have this help document up shortly after Apple updates OS X.