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EDS-HP scuttlebutt

Posted in eds, tagged , on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

According to At Least One Huge Tech Deal WILL Happen This Week, the ’scuttlebutt’ is that EDS is an undermanaged mess and that big expense cuts are coming.  I’m not sure what ‘undermanaged’ means but I guess it is undermanaged in comparison to HP.
I wonder how these expense cuts will work.  I hope somebody goes [...]

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Booker T

Posted in dallas, tagged , , , on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another example where you really have to ask “what were they thinking?”
Some rich person named Nancy Hamon donated a zillion dollars to help renovate The Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and in recognition of that the school district decided to name the new part the “Hamon Arts Magnet“.  The [...]

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WWCC

Posted in school, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Woodrow Wilson Community Council is official now — at Tuesday’s meeting we officially adopted the bylaws so now we exist.  The WWCC is a sort of meta-PTA composed of representatives from the PTAs and SBDM committees from each of the elementary schools and middle schools that feed into Woodrow plus the reps from Woodrow [...]

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Fireworks galore

Posted in realestate, tagged , on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some nimrod has been out there shooting off fireworks since at least 5:30 a.m.  It’s now almost 6:00 and he’s still going.
The new house has been bought and moved into.  It’s very nice, although going up and down the stairs all the time is taking some getting used to.

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