Anyone who is planning on watching Kenny Florian in UFC 87 tomorrow night might be interested in a video of his family talking about him and his life and career, it is really nicely done:

Kenny won by the way, by decision but in convincing fashion. Great fight. Lets hope he can do a fight in New England before the year is out!

Wow and I haven't posted annything on the blog since before tax day, how shameful! I am going to have to insist that you all (9707 visits to date!?!) pester me whenever the blog goes silent for a week or more. Lets see, whats new:

- we've got a new email system, finally we can get away from Microsoft on the server. There are a few oddities in the web client which can be easily handled: 1. messages by default will cluster together in their "thread" - go to preferences to disable this if you have trouble with it. If you seem to be missing some emails this is likely the culprit. 2. html may be off by default - fix this in prefs as well if you wish. Also bear in mind that we can now connect *any* email client to the server via secure IMAP so if you've got one you like better than outlook (mozilla anyone? apple mail?) you can now use it. And your iPhones too. Thanks to Alex for setting all of this up and transferring files over as well.

- we had another successful conference in San Francisco not long ago, with myself, Nick and Laura attending. It was nice to come face to face with folks from the west coast, including a number of smaller companies we may not otherwise have met. Overall a great event (as all VIB events are!) resulting in a healthy number of new prospects for tcVisualize and even a few for Trident. The 360 degree integration concept is still blowing people's hair back.

- speaking of which, Laura and I will be stepping into Paul's role throughout June and Paul will be moving on to new things starting in July. We all owe Paul a debt of gratitude for his tremendous hard work in trying to grow and expand our business.

- we have a new company quality policy which includes elements of SDLC, testing, validation, documentation and more. The new policy represents a *vast* improvement over the prior and I honestly believe it will be of great use to all of us going forward. All software developers in the company will be required to take training on the new policy (and adhere to it) as well as GCP overview and 21 CFR Part 11.

- a few other policies are coming out soon but believe me, they are all streamlined and useful, or I never would have let them come to be.

Thats all for now!

Ed

I've long liked haiku. I love a 3rd line surprise! I heard this last night:

haiku's are simple
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator

OK so that was mostly entertainment, but, to prove that I really do like haiku, I promise to write and post a few in the coming months.

E

ps: Kenny in Rogan's spot this Sat.!!!

pps: another E-travel disaster blog in the works!

As I type this, Spike TV is running a replay of the most recent Ultimate Fight Night Live, headlined by our sponsored athlete and good friend Kenny Florian, who (spoiler coming) will beat Joe Lauzon in round 2. If you missed it, now's the time to catch it!

Ed

You were right Ed, those heel hooks were scary for a bit. Wonder how KF's knees are feeling lately! Kudos to his ability to slip them though and go on to win. Blood-Flo.

I saw the replay as well. Kenny looks like he's reached another level. Although Lauzon had a couple of take downs in the 1st, he had to work like a dog to keep Kenny at bay. Kenny is one of the most dangerous fighters from full/half guard. The very end of the 1st round was a small preview of what was coming in round 2.

By the way, I think I errantly said that Kenny is commentating in UFC 84 - he is actually taking Rogan's place at UFC (Serra v GSP!) in Montreal this weekend. That would have been a great one to see live, I bet.

Well, I was hoping that we would not have to do any anti spam stuff but unfortunately the bots found us and started advertising all manner of unwanted garbage. As a result I have implemented an extremely simple method to stop spam: commenters need a password. For now we have one password for everyone, which we will send out in email internally. (Any external readers feel free to request it!). If this doesn't work (for whatever reason!) we can go to the next level with jpg decoding, IP banning, etc.

(... and our night out last night was splendid as well!)

I dont have much of a link this early but I'm **almost** calmed down enough to even consider sleeping now. First round in Kenny's headling fight against Joe Lauzon was very exciting, back and forth, but second round was all Kenny. Eventually I think Joe just realized he could not do anything and shortly thereafter the ref stopped it - not so much because Lauzon was out but more because he was completely stuck and eating endless punches. Yea Kenny you did it again! We're all proud of you more than its easy to express.

As for the rest of the week, we've hit home runs in every major event so far, including in my opinion the night out where we welcomed half a dozen new TS folks to the fold with an *old school* Roadhouse night, including a game of settlers and a late nite coda at the Radisson because Nick just happened to have a bottle of Bushmills in his car.

All that and the week is only half done.

Kenny will be replacing Joe Rogan as commentator in the upcoming UFC 84!

Too busy to write much but here are some highlights:

- multiple tcVisualize and Trident IWR demos lined up
- big meeting with [important pharmaceutical] about the future of IVRS
- big internal meeting Tues to discuss architecture, etc.
- internal demo of tcV + Trident in New London office, Tues
- big night out at Roadhouse, Tues night
- Ajaya in town Tues -> !!
- Kenny Florian HEADLINING on Spike TV, live national TV Wed night
- (plus Wed. is April fool's day - be careful!)

I think of all this stuff, I am most exceited for the big night out since we have so many new people now and its been so long since we've all hung out together. This will be a great way for everyone to get to know everyone and see some of our software as well. Plus, how often is Ajaya in town!

(This means, btw, that our India IVRS support operation is officially kicking off!)

In case you've been wondering what stomach ailment could possibly have laid me out for 2 weeks (since returning from Europe), we finally have an answer:

... which I guess is mainly associated with bad poultry, or, of course, animal feces. Since I tend not to come in contact with alot of animal feces I wracked my brain for the last time I had poultry (not as often as you'd think in Rome and Israel) and I think the answer is: it was on one of the flights. It might have even been the one over there, or maybe the one from Rome to Tel Aviv. Maybe Alex and Robin remember. (Did you guys choose the pasta, btw?)

In case you are curious, the remedy is to take 5x500mg Erythromycin tablets all at once. With food, I guess, since they aren't great on the stomach in and of themselves. Hopefully this is the end of the line for our friend Jejuni.

Yea, something is not quite right with the comments I fear. I'll look into it soon.

Sree: there is an email comments module but I haven't looked at it yet. I figured the web comments form would be usable :) it will be eventually...

In Rome, Alex and Robin convinced me to enable comments on this blog. Committed to do so and consigned to bed with a stomach bug, I today had to contend with blogging software which was last supported on its main site about 4-5 years ago. Luckily, there are other resources available for blosxom, which I still love for its extreme simplicity, so after a bit of digging I made it all work.

I hope you all enjoy the comments feature, and I also hope it doesn't get spambotted or otherwise abused. (Otherwise I'll have to decypher the "comments-antispam" module, and I'm kind of tired now).

Enjoy.

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