Author Archives: ttheobald2020

Visiting Prague? Only have a few days?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by ttheobald2020

Here’s the 5-minute guide: Don’t bother renting a car unless you plan to travel out of town – just get a taxi ride in (about $35-$40 fixed rate to most hotels downtown).  Parking here is a bastard, and there’s plenty … Continue reading →

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Salmon Glaze

Posted on July 31, 2012 by ttheobald2020

My wife loves this, and she just had me print it up for her mom, so I figured I might as well share: Salmon Glaze (use with .75-1.25 kg salmon filet) In a 150ml cup, put in: 1 teaspoon of … Continue reading →

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Review: “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

Posted on July 26, 2012 by ttheobald2020

Gameplay (entirely subjective – how much fun did I have?  Would I play this again?):  5.0 Visuals (graphics quality, atmosphere, realism):  7.0 Audio (includes sountrack, effects, etc.): 7.0 Storyline (writing, pure and simple):  5.0 Delivery (packaging, contents, what you get): 3.0 Technical (Did it install?  Did … Continue reading →

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KPIs Part II – As Applied to a Technical Support department

Posted on July 20, 2012 by ttheobald2020

This is Part 2 of a series – Part 1 can be found here So…part 2 of this series will take a look at the KPIs appropriate for a Technical Support department.  In order to arrive at what elements of … Continue reading →

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Battle-Bands: table-less / mapless D&D 4e

Posted on July 15, 2012 by ttheobald2020

With the oncoming death of the VT (actually, this was spurred because while insanely useful, the VT made mapmaking a HUGE pain in the ass), I was spurred to create a “mapless” battle plotter for D&D 4th Edition.  The rules … Continue reading →

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Problems in Retail

Posted on July 9, 2012 by ttheobald2020

I was asked recently (during an interview) what my view of the retail world was – as an open-ended question and not focused on the aspects of how to use technology to provide a solution, I stumbled over it.  It … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Prometheus

Posted on June 18, 2012 by ttheobald2020

I’ve been putting this off (which seems to be becoming a bit of a theme for me), but here’s the review: Visuals:  9 Audio:  7.5 Plot:  2 Characters:  4 Action:  8 Science (only applies to sci-fi films, not counted in … Continue reading →

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Key Performance Indicators in IT – part 1

Posted on June 15, 2012 by ttheobald2020

I was asked recently by a company as part of their first-round hiring process a question very similar to this: How would you establish measurement of the departments under you in such a way that you would have an indication … Continue reading →

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Been Gone a While…

Posted on May 30, 2012 by ttheobald2020

Apologies – current company is in a death-spiral under a fail-upwards culture in our UK office, and I’ve been pounding the pavement both looking for a new position as well as trying hard to get a business plan polished up … Continue reading →

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This is the reason…

Posted on April 4, 2012 by ttheobald2020

…why many people, myself included, smile going out the door every morning, or smile when looking up at the stars.

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