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It was a memorable day. Last month this blog and website were offline for exactly 21 days. Is there some magic in this number that is the product of primes?
Best as anyone can ascertain there was no technical reason for this. All the technical dots and tittles were thoroughly checked, double checked, and then triple checked by multiple “experts” from multiple companies. No problem. BUT

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If you’re a Maker of things, this matters. It’s a form of AMBER alert too as the red-haired stepchild triumphs. We all love discontinuous innovation and Production Solutions.
I caught this nifty news tidbit late last month while the cadpilot site was in Neverland. I had no real way to chat it up.

Times Change…

Some…

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Enough happens to us all. Enough is personal and powerfully social. My month of April was enough.

Enough is experiential like sex, money, and father or mother. This sort of word purposefully means different things. Money doesn’t mean the same thing to a ten-year old as it does to me. Meaning depends on our current context.

In…

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I want you to consider and have some fun with the following thoughts.

Beware of people who want to scare you about these powerful new “surveillance” technologies. They want you to confuse intention with reality and therefore confuse your sense of the expected with the unexpected. Huh?

Intent and Accusation

“They are out to get us all.”

The favorite new…

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The cadpilot.com site is back up.

Why the Cadpilot site went down in the first place is a technological mystery lost in the Shards of the Cloud.
Why it remained down for exactly 21 days almost to the exact minute is as lost as King Solomon’s Mines or Malaysian Airlines flight 350. Many great minds on multiple continents beat their heads on their keyboards trying to fix it.…

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