A message from the 37Signals guys that really resonated with me. They discuss the importance of bringing your message into the organization and mention Apple as a recent example.

Getting the message in is about feeding the culture. It’s about making people proud of the work working on. I think it’s an important lesson for anyone building a team. Getting the message in is as important as getting the message out.

Things have been very quiet around here, mostly because I could not motivate myself to write on an environment that has been stale for a long time. The main intent of this website was always to serve as a playground, well the playground did not change much over the last couple of years and that is just sad.

I have been playing around with a new look and some new features that I have been thinking about for a long time. Things might appear a bit broken over the next few days but I hope this will give me the motivation to put time and effort back into my website.

The visual design is a work in progress and links might break during the transition. I am sure you will survive the chaos. I hope I am taking this site in the right direction.

Keep an eye on the Phoenix Suns as they try to set a new NBA record. Phoenix is 14-0 on the road against Eastern Conference teams this season and a win against the 76ers on Wednesday would make the Suns the first team to sweep its road games against the opposite conference.

UPDATE: Shawn Marion and Boris Diaw sat out this game and the Suns simply could not pull it together to set the record against the 76ers. I could not watch the game but been reading about it and it sounds like the Suns just didn’t have it tonight. In the words of Coach D’Antoni we just ran out of luck tonight.

Saturday I got a call from the dry cleaners that we use most of the time, they were letting me know that I had some shirts available for pickup. These shirts were dropped off in October! I stopped to picked them up on my way home from the office and the ticket said I had dropped them off on the 11th of October, which is a little crazy given our wedding day was only a few days after that. No wonder I forgot to pick them up at all.

So it was like going shopping without spending any money. Among the missing shirts was a pink shirt that I knew I had but could not find, I even looked in Sarah’s closet thinking it might have found a home there. Well, at least I know I have not lost my mind and I now have the pink dress shirt to wear again among with a few others happen to be Sarah’s so I am still without that elusive pink button down shirt. I guess tomorrow will be blue stripes day.