It’s almost hard to believe yet another year has come and gone.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous New Year!

Music credit to John Lennon “So This Christmas”

PS: There was an issue with Flow Player and Internet Explorer 8 that was causing a ‘operation aborted’ error whenever the page was loaded. I’ve changed to a different Flash player, sorry about that!

Our own Philadelphia Flyers will be playing in this years NHL Winter Classic being held at Fenway Park in Boston, MA on January 1, 2010. I enjoy playing the game myself and watching the NHL, AHL and college games. I’m only hoping that the Flyers, a team named by some as a contender for this years Stanley Cup, don’t embarrass Philadelphia fans any further having lost 14 of their last 17 games.

Here’s the time lapse footage provided by NHL.TV of the transformation of Fenway Park.

References;
2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic

I was referred to this article by a friend who thought it had more truths than a lot of things in life these days. It was an article by Jeff Ello at CIO. I’m not going to cross post the entire article but I will post the opening exceprt;

I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: “Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z.”

On initial glance it doesn’t look that promising but let me tell you that is one of the best articles I’ve read on the subject. It’s a long article but well worth the time and effort.

http://www.cio.com/article/501697/The_Unspoken_Truth_About_Managing_Geeks

Cheers!