Microsoft Office Is Stupid And Google Docs Had To Follow

April 5th, 2009

There I said it! My logical blood cells are reproducing faster than normal lately so bear with me. I’m a front and middle tier software developer by trade, but in reality I’m paid to “think” about how people truly use software. This carries over to all parts of my life but I’ll leave that for another post. With this charter I’ve been thinking about MS Office, Google Docs and all other “office” type software. Read more…

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Set Big Goals Or No Goals

March 29th, 2009

While updating my About Me page, I realized something about myself that I hadn’t before. I realized that I’ve been successful at achieving my goals when they were BIG, but fail much more often when they weren’t. Read more…

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Linguistically Challenged

March 27th, 2009
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Flag of Belize

As I mentioned before, I’m a mixed Hispanic who can barely speak Spanish. I should know the language since I had to take it for 4 yrs in high school growing up in Belize.  But Belize is an English speaking country and is more “caribbean” than it is “central american”. At least the city I grew up in. I get grief about this ALL the time and have had a couple funny incidents because of this. Read more…

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A Better Auto Industry?

March 26th, 2009

For a while now I’ve been thinking about the auto industry and the future of cars.  Thinking about the billions spent on research and development and marketing, and wondering how the industry could be more competitive and efficient.  So I had this crazy idea.  What if there was only a single company that made the engine and guts of the car. What? No competition?  I know it sounds crazy, but lets entertain this idea for a minute. Read more…

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Just Too Logical – The Beginning

March 24th, 2009

Hello?  Who goes there?  Welcome! 

Charles Godfrey

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Kinda hard to believe that this is my own very first blog post given that, as a Developer, I’m on a computer 10+  hours a day.  I plan to blog about my overly logical thoughts as well as my life as a 30-something techy, gadget lover, new father, entrepreneur and idealist, who plans to retire in May 2012 at the perfect age of 35. Read more…

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