Derek Scruggs

Here’s a great article that crystalizes some ideas I’ve been struggling with. More Evidence of a Maturing Software Industry talks about the slowing of the upgrade cycle for software like Microsoft Office. This is definitely a trend in mass market and some enterprise software, but there is still plenty of room for innovation in emerging […]

Well, it’s about time. Yahoo recently launched an RSS aggregator, and it’s not bad. It allows me to have my favorite feeds right on the My Yahoo home page, which has been my home page for a few years now. Once they get the glitches out, I hope Yahoo pushes the envelope in terms […]

Talk about morons, here’s the prototype. This article takes Google to task for planning to introduce an email service. The writer assumes it will be a free webmail service a la Hotmail. I really really really doubt it. Rather, my guess is that Google plans to allow email publishers to introduce AdSense ads in their […]

This morning I had coffee with Alycia Jackson of Keybank. I met Alycia through Colorado Business Leads, and we’re working on a joint promotion with a few other members.
Alycia handles both business and consumer banking. Keybank has tons of products for small businesses, including free checking (even free checks!), merchant accounts and a huge variety […]

It’s days like this that remind me why I love living in Colorado

Copper Mountain, Colorado
This is the view near the top of the Super Bee lift. I was shooting into the sun, so there’s a slight glare, but I kind of like it.
If you ski straight ahead, it drops off into a short but quite […]

Our house is so stuffed full of stuff from the holidays it’s spilling into the garage and there’s barely room for the Ferrari. It might be time to finally get a storage shed.

This is fascinating. Fred Langa of Information Week did an interesting test that suggests a lot of legitimate email is being blocked as spam.

Today I met with Mary Heidbrier of MLJ Financial, whom I originally met through Colorado Business Leads.
MLJ Financial specializes in health insurance for small businesses. Mary brings a very interesting perspective to the business. Prior to joining MLJ, she managed a doctor’s office. There she got an up-close-and-personal look at the insurance companies, learning exactly […]

Good article on negative “self talk” that can affect your productivity. I used to think the whole “power of positive thinking” idea was a little hokey and unrealistic. But then one day I realized that, even if you don’t practice positive thinking, there is absolutely no value in negative thinking. And I found that if […]

Couldn’t resist. This is a picture of my fiance that I took earlier this evening with our new digital camera. Isn’t she beautiful?