Navy Outsourcing Lessons

Like most companies that outsource, the Navy learned their lesson the hard way. After 10 years and $10 billion, yes billion, the Navy has a convoluted system designed (NMCI) and delivered by HP. This 'state-of-the-art' system only allows email delivery 150 times less than Gmail.

The Navy just signed another five year contract with HP to continue the support of this wonderful system. Your tax dollars at work :-(

Great Photo

Every store should have this sign in the window :-)

Back From The Beach

We are back from the beach. Destin was wonderful this year. No oil anywhere. The weather was actually cooler than it was here in Ohio. Go figure.

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The Box

Simon's cat is at it again :-)

Birds At The Beach

Destin Florida is nice this time of year. The beaches are empty. I can't figure out if this is due to the oil scare or school starting back. There is no oil anywhere. There temperature here is actually cooler than it is at home this week.

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Porsche 918 Spyder A Go

It looks like the Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid will go into production after all. It will do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds and has a top speed of 198 mph.

It will go a whopping 16 miles on all electric power. Perhaps they should have called it the Porsche Volt :-)

New Couch

For those of you that know me, this was bound to happen. I don't have enough kitties so I need a cat couch. This thing is absolutely huge.

While Emily has picked out a new couch, I am suggesting the above :-)

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