June 27th, 2005 by Matt
I’ve started reading about Tablet PC’s for a few months now, after being generally curious about the technology, and then having my interest piqued by Michael Hyatt writing about his Tablet PC experience. I’ve since combed through many other resources and blogs devoted to the Tablet PC and have learned quite a bit. My interest has only grown and I really wanted to experience for myself what productivity and effectiveness benefits or impediments this technology would offer.
My company has standardized their computing platforms on just 4 or 5 Dell PC’s – 2 laptops, and 3 desktops to meet the various needs of R&D folks and other, more mobile folks. For the past 3 years I’ve been using a Dell Latitude C610, which has performed its job very well. However, we do not have any flexibility to introduce new computing platforms – i.e. a Tablet PC – to our hardware baseline … or so I thought.
After communicating with a couple of the leaders in our IS organization, I discovered that we actually were beginning a small trial of Tablet PC’s. They graciously allowed me to be part of an upcoming portion of that trial, and it turns out that upcoming portion is starting now!
Continue reading ‘A Tablet PC Exploration Begins’
June 27th, 2005 by Matt
I haven’t posted anything to this blog in about 6 weeks – not because I haven’t thought of things to write, but because I’ve had so many other things going on. Just like Michael Hyatt recently wrote, sometimes life hits you with many things at one time and you just need to hold on and do the best you can.
In the past 6 weeks, my grandfather passed away and I attended his funeral in Nebraska; I prepared to go to a national swim meet in Florida only to cancel my trip the night before I was to leave when my wife had to go to the Emergency Room (she’s fine now); I interviewed for a new job, got the job, and started the job (at the same company); I coached my son’s t-ball team, hosted a end-of-season t-ball party and held my son’s fourth birthday party at our house.
Most of these events are simply things that arise in the normal course of being a parent and being alive. However, when the occur so close together, it takes up any margin in your life for some of the extra things, like writing in my blog.
I’m able to get back to posting now, and I have several things to write about. Thanks to anyone who is still checking this blog 