http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/26/the-importance-of-labeling/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/26/the-importance-of-labeling/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:03:35 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=276 Recently I was labeling some bulk spices in the kitchen larder using a P-Touch Labeler  – can you tell the difference between fennel seed and caraway seed, well neither can I without a label -  And I thought about the times, places, whys and whens I’ve used a P-Touch Labeler and what I put on those labels. Of course [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/10/26/the-importance-of-labeling/feed/ 0 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:37:20 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=294 No matter how hard you work to acquire them, some skills eventually become obsolete. But even obsolete skills get dusted off occasionally.  And it’s interesting when those formerly needed skills, that you haven’t used on a daily basis, suddenly become useful at the oddest times and in the oddest places. Formerly as a network administrator I had to pull [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/08/24/using-obsolete-skills-can-be-fun/feed/ 1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/03/24/networking-lunches-neither-fish-nor-fowl/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/03/24/networking-lunches-neither-fish-nor-fowl/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:42:42 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=26 Networking lunches are an interesting beast – neither fish nor fowl. You sit on one side of the table with an air of quiet desperation while your counterpart across the table hunkers down hoping to survive the next inevitable round of layoffs. At least that’s the way it feels to me sometimes. Actually everyone I meet during [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/03/24/networking-lunches-neither-fish-nor-fowl/feed/ 0