Commitment

It's not about money sometimes, it's about commitment.
Commitment takes two, and trust.

-Joe Torre (2007)

Judgment

...I never let judgment impair my life

-PH

Uncertainty

Leadership is the reduction of uncertainty.

-??

Growth and Learning

Well educated people of today are adequately prepared for a future that doesn't exist.
It's only those who continue to learn that will be able to survive and thrive of the changing world of today.

Zig Ziglar

Cast your shadow with care

when one casts a shadow, be mindfull that it's not so big that others must travel very far to get out from under it..

Z

Baseball Parks - Americana at it's best

As an avid baseball fan, I often visit parks around the country. Whether it's Yankee Stadium in the Bronx or the Coliseum in Oakland the pleasure has always been mine to visit these parks and watch the good old american past time. Over the years it dawned on me that the attraction of these parks to me (and others) is that many of these ballparks deliver an experience that is becoming harder and harder find. No I'm not a classic relic that doesn't believe in progress. Yes the stadiums are new and today you can even pay for food with a credit card from your seat, but the values that sit behind all that haven't changed in most places.

Kids still get balls signed, foul balls are still a fan favorite, the 7th inning is still the 7th inning, and reason people go to these parks is still the same today as it was 100 years ago. Values Though the experience may vary from park to park, I encourage anyone searching for that definition to visit that bastion of americana that has decided to call itself ... the baseball park.

-Z

Myths, Truths and History

"Myths are the embodiment of truths which society has observed, but is often unable to communicate"

-ZuCom

Statues and Pigeons

"some days your the statue
and others your the pigeon "

Talent is Never Enough - John C. Maxwell

Talent is Never Enough - John C. Maxwell

The new book, as wonderful as his previous works, it is unfolds the wisdom of the ages in his patented style.

"....talent wants to jump into action, but preparation positions talent to be effective"

"the frustrating thing about preparation is that it usually takes much more time that the actual event one prepares for"

ZuCom

Leadership it requires: Action, Vision & Passion

Action without Vision makes us pessimistic.

Action without Compassion makes us legalistic.

Vision without Action makes us moralistic.

Vision without Compassion makes us idealistic.

Compassion without Action makes us unrealistic.

Compassion without Vision makes us fatalistic.

-John C. Maxwell

Character - Integrity and Honesty

You can’t spell integrity without the word grit which is defined as “a firmness of mind,” or “unyielding courage.” It takes a great deal of courage or grit to be true to self. In the end, though, it’s worth the effort because our legacies are going to be impacted greatly by our integrity or lack thereof.

-John C. Maxwell

WR54G SVEASOFT to LINKSYS

I like many in the early days of the wireless G spec, wanted to boost my coverage area, so I invested in bigger antenna and the famed SVEASOFT firmware (which for the record does a excellent job), Recently though I needed to flash my WRT54G v1.0 back to the original Linksys firmware.. Simple right, anybody with a TFTP client and a cable can do it. Well it ain't so. Seems that going to SVEASOFT is easy, but back isn't, and requires a harrowing (and warranty voiding) adventure. Once you've gone away from the stock Linksys firmware your required to manually put the device in standby mode in order to flash it with a different type of firmware. Not too hard one would think, but it involves shorting out a couple of pins on the ROM that holds the firmware (not something for the squimish). The detailed directions are in the links blelow and I must commend the authors for being so detailed. Even I was able to follow it enough to make it work. I'm happy to report that my WRT54G 1.0 is back in the Linksys saddle again and it was really a sinch.



http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/wrt54g_revival.html

http://nino.net/blogs/nino/archive/2005/06/09/744.aspx

What version WRT54G do I have?

I will add some detail to the information found in those links that is specific to v1.0 of the WRT54G.

1) The rom chip your looking for sits underneath the card that is in the slot inside the unit (tricky to find when 90% of it's covered up).

2) The markings that the postings elude to aren't on my version, so use the exposed side and count up from the triangle symbol you see in the picture to pins 15 & 16.

3) You must have your patch cord plugged into the WAN or INTERNET port. (duh for some but just thought I'd mention that)

Enjoy!!

-Z

Fix IE7 ToolBar location

After 10+ years of using IE, Microsoft has decided to move the Menu Bar down below the address bar. For old-timers (like me) this is just too much of a switch. So in the beta there was the ability to change the location by adding a key to the registry.

Keep in mind that there is no warranty on any of this information. This may damage your system. The information is provided "as is" with a implied hold harmless agreement to ZuCom and all related parties (now that we've got that out of the way)


Here's what worked for me..

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]

"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001



Or below is a link to that registry key
MOVE_IE7_TOOLBAR

-Z

SnowBall - One foot in front of the other

One foot in front of the other


If you want to change the reflection
you see in the mirror each morn
it's just your election 
to vote for a chance to be reformed

-WW

The Grain

"To avoid a confrontation, it's sometimes necessary to go along. Other times it's necessary to stick out and just play by your own rules."

William H. Moses

The Plan

luck isn't a plan, but without it a plan isn't much

-???

"Telecommunication Philosopher"

..recently I had the fortune to watch some unedited footage of the Apollo 11 coverage.  At the end of the tape there was a panel discussion with, (and I'm not kidding here):   

an editor of a newspaper
a telecommunications philosopher
and an amateur ecologist

Initially I was struck by the title "telecommunications philosopher".  A title I've never tried myself but from the shear name, one I may have been able to claim in the past.  As I listened to this 1969 broadcast I was struck at the amazing message that was being sent.  The panel focused on the ecological reasons for going to the moon.  As one would imagine the impact of automobiles on the environment was the center of the argument.  Juxtaposed against some 2006 ecological documentaries the message is shockingly similar.  Have we progressed so little in almost 40 years that we can do no more than predict the end of the automobile, and the end of nature as we know it?  Either this panel was 40 years ahead of thier time or our societies argument about the automobiles impact on the environment hasn't changed during that period.

And what is a telecommunications philosopher doing on that panel?  Was he invited to the wrong panel? After all this was 1969, DARPA was probably not really a household name.  Modem's were a bit crude at best and, let's face it the only cellular phone calls were coming from Apollo.  Then it struck me.  Tele Communications Philosopher was a Television Communications Philosopher.  So, although my interest was peaked by the mis-communication (couldn't help myself there) of what I thought was a primer on sending packets back and forth to the moon, I was reminded that our view of polution in 1969 may still be relavant today.  Much more relavant than the term "telecommunications philosopher".

-ZuCom

Consensus

"one primary key to leading is the ability to build a consensus"


...even bad leaders know that you can't lead without a support of others.


-ZuCom

Joe Clark

"disipline is not the enemy of enthusiam"

-Joe Clark

Control

Control is an illusion, mastered by fear, and held captive by risk

--ZuCom