Blog Integration with LinkedIn

The Building Snowmobiles blog is now integrated with Phil Holt's LinkedIn profile. This will provide notice of new posts to members of the LinkedIn network.

—08/05/2011 07:25 AM

Building Snowmobiles

The web site is now linked to the Building Snowmobiles blog, a running conversation about strategy, change, process, and results. At some point, posts there will also be update this feed.

—03/24/2011 05:26 PM

New Year's Resolution

Make a point of checking the 100 Rules for NASA Project Managers under the Resources link. Jerry Madden's wise guidance is timeless and useful.

—01/14/2011 07:23 AM

RSS News

The "News" link has been updated to display the contents of the Altis RSS feed as a standard web page. You can subscribe to the feed by clicking on the RSS icon, though news is infrequent at this time. Please send a comment if anything on the page does not appear to behave as expected.

—01/14/2011 07:21 AM

Web Site Update

The underlying technology of the Altis web site has been refreshed to bring it into line with current XHTML and CSS standards. A couple of CSS 3 declarations have been added, though they only show up in browsers that support it. 2011 may see other changes, but if anything does not appear to be working properly, please send an e-mail. The site structure has changed slightly, so if you've linked to any of the pages, please check to make sure that everything still works.

—12/19/2010 06:48 PM

ReCaptcha Issues

It appears that the use of ReCaptcha authentication was unreliable with clients using the altis.us domain. An issue with keys has been resolved.

—11/04/2010 09:05 PM

RSS Update

The news page has been removed and we are in the process of testing RSS functions. Updates will be intermittent while other site changes are underway. Watch this feed for news.

—02/21/2010 08:56 AM

RSS Feed

All Altis news and updates will be published through this RSS feed.

—02/20/2010 01:37 PM

When in Doubt, Do the Right Thing

I got sidetracked today reading an article in the newspaper (remember those?) It was revealed that the CEO of a major company significantly padded his résumé.  This went beyond a matter of inadvertent exaggeration, and it raises at least a couple of problems for a large company, especially a public one. The first is that the chief executive [...]

—05/06/2012 11:11 AM

The 5 Principles of Mars

That tiny calanque of magazines, sundries, and candy bars in the checkout line used to be the last opportunity a supermarket had to steer us toward another purchase.  Now at the register, a nineteen-year-old wearing a knit shirt with a store logo and big name badge to personalize the transaction asks, “Did you find everything you were [...]

—04/01/2012 04:19 PM

Moments of Truth

German choreographer Pina Bausch was famously experimental, constantly trying to find ways to bring her dancers as close as possible to the truth of the work. In Cafe Müller, among her most famous pieces, dancers rush with their eyes closed across a stage littered with chairs that their partners must sweep violently out of the way to prevent [...]

—02/01/2012 01:13 PM

How Things Work

The luxuries of our progress are making us poor. More people than ever know about things thanks to the Internet, but the details of daily life are becoming a series of mysterious black-box interactions. The more technically inclined might be aware that a mobile phone is really just a special kind of radio, but beyond [...]

—12/31/2011 08:12 PM

Competitive Imagination

Ear protection is barely enough.  The deafening wail of their approach is stunningly visceral. From the rhythmic yawp of their engines crowding into a corner to the pulsing shriek of the cars flying wide under full throttle into a straight, an F1 race represents the peak of engineering, teamwork, and driver’s skill. The competitive atmosphere simply overwhelms the [...]

—11/17/2011 09:57 AM