Rainier - The Gentleman Dog

John Bredesen

Retired IT Leader, Author, and bad pun appreciater

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  • October 7, 2014

    Rainier – The Perfect Gentleman

    This post was written in January 2012 after Rainier died. See this post for his last day. Rainier, April 1999 – January 2012 Dear Family & Friends, It is with a sad heart that I tell you that Rainier passed away last night. The vet believes

  • October 5, 2014

    Rainier – The Last Day

    The below was written after Rainier died. Not very coherent or complete. The whole event happened in one evening. See this post for more about Rainier. We were heading out of town for the weekend so we dropped off Rainier at some good friend’s house. They have a couple of dogs that Rainier likes playing […]

  • September 17, 2014

    The Astonishing Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11

    Long Read. Amazing recap of what happened to our financial systems on 9/11/2001. Or rather what didn’t happen: it didn’t break. http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11#

  • August 29, 2014

    David Allen: Getting Things Done (GTD)

  • June 17, 2014
  • April 30, 2014

    15 Albums

    (Challenge: Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums […]

  • January 9, 2014

    Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines

    Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines This is an excellent article on writing email subject lines, article titles, etc. Anyone who sends emails or writes should internalize the message from the article.

  • December 13, 2013

    The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program

    The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program via The Top 3 Mistakes Corporations Make With Their IT Security Program.

  • October 10, 2013

    Oxygen

    There are thousands of self-help books out there. However, the single most useful self-help concept is said on every flight every day: “Put your own oxygen mask on before assisting others.”

  • May 14, 2013

    42 pounds of Pop Rocks

    The past. The present. The future. Today. Tomorrow. Yesterday. Are they important? We think so. But do we live like they are? I’m not so sure. Sometimes we spend our tomorrows cheaply. We push things off we know we should do today. We take out debt, spending our future before we get there. We cheapen […]

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