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Wednesday May 25, 2005

What to read? As I've previously mentioned, I have a voracious appetite for books and regularly have 3-4 in progress. Last night I was chatting with my wife about a recommendation for her book club. We decided upon a lesser known, but excellent author who has written two books in the SF genre that are very unique. The author is Maria Doria Russel who has written The Sparrow and the sequel Children of God. Maria takes the classic SF plot of first contact and turns it completely on its head. Two of the best stories I have ever read. ps - Considered and discarded were a couple of other favorites (I was really torn about passing up American Gods, it's fantastic): Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere Neil Gaiman - American Gods Robert A. Heinlein - Job A Comedy of Justice ( May 25 2005, 03:37:08 PM CDT / May 25 2005, 09:00:00 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [1] Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/mtibbets/entry/what_to_read

Tuesday May 24, 2005

Warrior Poet Warrior Poet (one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time, definately worth a listen) ( May 23 2005, 08:34:19 PM CDT / May 24 2005, 01:30:00 AM CDT ) Permalink Comments [3] Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/mtibbets/entry/warrior_poet

Monday May 16, 2005

Respect How much is your integrity and reputation worth? Apparantly it was worth more than $1 million for this young man. Here's a quote “I’ll give up the million to get back your guys’ friendship” Say what you want about reality tv, but every now and again you get a glimpse of real character. ( May 16 2005, 09:46:09 AM CDT / May 16 2005, 02:00:00 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [3] Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/mtibbets/entry/respect

Wednesday May 11, 2005

Solaris Data As I've said before, the best part of my job is working with really smart engineers to solve interesting and complex problems. All of the folks in my virtual neck of the woods with Blogs are on my blogroll but here they are again in no particular order Robert Gordon Jim Wahlig Bill Baker Spencer Shepler David Robinson Calum Mackay Eric Kustarz Sarah Jelinek Combined these engineers (and their peers who aren't blogging yet, <hint>, <hint>) have a wealth of information and expertise on Solaris Data components including NFS, UFS, and much much more. ( May 11 2005, 03:56:08 PM CDT / May 11 2005, 08:00:00 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [0] Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/mtibbets/entry/growing_community

Thursday May 05, 2005

Pomp and Circumstances It's been a while since I last did an update, I've been heads-down on a couple of end of semester projects, papers, etc. I've got some great notes saved up from both my HR class and Corporate Governance that I'll post in the coming days. But today is the day. I've completed the last hour of the last class for my MBA. I started this little endeavour four years ago and I'm not sure I would have continued if I knew then how big a challenge this would be. Due to an awesome family and a great company that provides tuition reimbursement and understanding managers I've completed this degree. My wife and children are the best, and have sacrificed a lot of time to help make this happen. They are my inspiration. (Not to mention I was worried they'd kill me if I quit after getting us into this mess). My managers, mentors, friends, and employees at Sun have been supportive and flexible. Along the way I've had the opportunity to meet some fantastic instructors and professors who have provided me a tremendous education. Here are a couple of the stars: Ron Melicher - Finance Frank Moyes - Entrepeneurship Dean Shepherd - Management & Strategy Page Moreau - Marketing Stephen Lawrence - Operations Jeff Luftig - Operations Richard Wobbekind - Economics Kyle Lewis - HR Shelby Carter - Corporate Governance William H. Cunningham - Corporate Governance These are all incredibly talented scholars and teachers. If you ever have the opportunity to meet them at either the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder or the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin it is not an opportunity to be missed.     ( May 05 2005, 03:16:52 PM CDT / May 05 2005, 10:00:00 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [0] Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/mtibbets/entry/pomp_and_circumstances

Blogroll
• Bill Baker
• Calum Mackay
• Chris Gerhard
• David Robinson
• David Weibel
• Eric Kustarz
• Jim Wahlig
• Kazem
• Ken Gibson
• Richard McDougall
• Robert Gordon
• Sarah Jelinek
• Spencer Shepler
• The Boss

Blogroll
• Bill Baker
• Calum Mackay
• Chris Gerhard
• David Robinson
• David Weibel
• Eric Kustarz
• Jim Wahlig
• Kazem
• Ken Gibson
• Richard McDougall
• Robert Gordon
• Sarah Jelinek
• Spencer Shepler
• The Boss

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