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Welcome to everyday adventures in my business life, including thoughts and feelings about a world within which all things are connected. This QUEST is a JOURNEY to share knowledge, a JUNKET to share enjoyment, and often times simply an OUTING among old friends and new acquaintances.

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To Myers-Briggs I'm an INTJ on the cusp of an E. A war-orphan, I was raised an only child by my mother. Born into a family of engineers and inventors, I naturally gravitated to engineering; model railroading at age 5. By the time I left high school the railroad was well automated (back when mechanical relays and vacuum tubes prevailed.) Home was Gary, Indiana and while attending Purdue University I majored in Electrical Engineering, worked part-time and summers as a motor inspector at the Inland Steel 80" Hot Strip, where I found the air conditioning requirement of early automation equipment to be personally beneficial. I joined the DuPont Corporation as a Design Engineer and moved to Waynesboro, VA. (where in 1969 I automated the 1929 Acetate Chemical process using a Digital Equipment PDP 8E computer supervising five PDP14 industrial controllers -- the computer was programmed using a Teletype machine and paper tape!) I also had the pleasure of an assignment in Londonderry NI in 1973 followed by a move to Charleston, SC in 1976 to construct a fully automated polyester fiber facility (complete with industrial robots). But enough about me...

Thursday, November 03, 2005

A Quick Note

I've made some structural changes to this blog:
1) FAQs: You'll see the FAQ date in the sidebar alternate between red and green. If you're a frequent visitor, this will help alert you to new updates. When you link to the FAQ page you'll find the word NEW! ahead of new indexed entries. If NEW! appears in the same color as the most recent FAQ date, that entry has just been added. If NEW! appears in the alternate color, that entry was added earlier. Entries prior to the last two updates will no longer display the word NEW!

PLEASE view the FAQ pages whenever there is an update since the updates are responses to student questions OR are student responses to my posted questions. Students posting a new question will continue to receive my first response directly to their email, all others will continue to rely on the FAQ page. Confidential responses will continue to be emailed directly to all students.

2) SIDEBAR: The order of data contained in the left sidebar has been reorganized to bring BUAD477 references to the top and Archival links to the bottom. This should enable you to scan the blog more rapidly.

3) GUESTBOOK: I've added a guestbook in the middle of the left sidebar to enable visitors to comment about anything that moves them. I'm particularly interested in suggestions as to how I might make this blog more interesting and informative.

Please continue to read my posts and please respond to the questions I pose as they are highly relevant to the project and help to hone website focus. Many thanks.

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