The motor is back

Got the motor back on Dad’s boat last weekend and sailed for the first time in a while. The problem with the motor was that over the summer, the gas had moved in and out of the carb, eventually gumming it up. The guy who worked on it said to run the engine at least once a month for 10 minutes at idle and 10 minutes in gear. He also gave Dad some sort of fuel additive that is supposed to help. Another boat ownership lesson learned.

My son is becoming quite the sailor. He’s a lot more confident walking around the foredeck than he was initially. He’s also been put in charge of winch covers, fenders, and the sail bag so he’s happy about that.

Corporate memory – the hard way. Denham Grey has written a blog entry on the knowledge management dream of capturing corporate memory. To quote: One of the central themes of KM is the design, building and maintenance of an effective ‘corporate memory’, a repository, a dare… [Column Two]

“We did not design for dialog, we built a vault to secure objects, when we badly needed a place to support relationships. We indexed, clustered and classified the content, when we really needed to point to people, we imposed order, when we should have co-designed, permitted emergence and shared the meaning, we had workflow and access rights, when we needed empathy, support, evangelism and interaction.”

Vignette to Acquire Collaboration Leader Intraspect. Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intraspect Software Inc., a leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. The acquisition will bring together the acknowledged market leader in content management and… [cms~wire]

We were just meeting with the Vignette partner folks the other day and I asked them if a collaboration purchase was on the horizon. I think all the big players have now hooked up with a collaboration vendor. As Gartner predicted, the Smart Enterprise Suite cometh.