Another EDI Blog from this guy…?  Geez!  Why are we all feeling so special?!? When I'd first written this blog - back in June - I was still working and "gainfully employed" and the change - just about a week ago - is something I could (obviously) plan for and anticipate - but you can only plan so much for this kind of eventuality in life...  But I'm doing OK and have been working on some possibilites to come...   OK, so I’m exaggerating a bit with that lead-in, right?  But truly, if you’ve read the blogs I write, you may very well have noticed that sometimes I’m kicking ‘em out daily.  Sometimes, well… not so much…  Months may pass between writings…  A lot of it happens when an idea – INSPIRATION! – rears its head and other times, well, it’s just when maybe I’m not so busy and I’ve got free time to think. Wait… Free time for an EDI Guy?  How can THAT be?  It’s not possible!! (now I've got even MORE free time!). But I tell you, it is!  And there’s a reason that any EDI Guy (or Gal) can have some … free time … here and there to work on other issues and projects.  It’s all about planning and executing your plans and taking ...

I was reading another blog or two.. yes, it was over at the Inovis blog site.. Anyway, I'd taken a week of vacation and needed to catch up on My reading.. Over there, I found blogs about SaaS (Software as a Service) and GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) and more and more... Then I was thinking about EDI and GTIN and UPC and SKU and all the other acronyms and alphabet soups we all have in our lives and our jobs and careers. But it made Me also think of another group of letters that used to be used in the MIS/IT industries - back when it was Computer Science - and it was GIGO.. Do you remember GIGO..? Garbage in, garbage out.... I'm wondering how many of us deal with end users that seem to forget that the computers we use - no matter how fancy and new and no matter how much RAM we're using or Ghz the processor can process at; no matter how many mbps/kbps we can download at, the computer is nothing more than a giant calculator.. It's just taking the stuff WE input and processing it to get to the output we desire. It's still all just strings of Ones (1) and Zeros (0) that we're pushing through, getting to our final destination.. ...