I’ve been a bit of a Tim Tebow fan from the moment I first heard of him while he was playing college ball. But when the Denver Broncos took him in the draft (2009 if memory serves), I became a much bigger fan. During his stint with the Broncos I quickly became a HUGE fan.

When hearing of Peyton Manning considering the Broncos as one of a few teams he was considering signing with after being released from the Colts (Mar 2012), I had some uneasiness…I like Peyton a lot (both in football and in character) and think he’s a great quarterback, perhaps the best in the league during our lifetime. But I had concerns about how Manning coming to the Denver might affect what happens to Tim and the Broncos.

More Than Winning

To me football is much more than just winning…more than what has become the ‘business of winning’. I know many folks, including John Elway (Broncos Exec VP of Football who we all respect), think winning is the only thing that matters when it comes down to it. It’s a job, highly measured on performance. Everyone wants a Super Bowl ring (or another for their collection). But I think many others, like me, think that having an awesome and exciting season…game after game means an awful lot to us fans, and maybe even more than winning the Super Bowl. And let’s not forget how ‘Tebowmania’ filled seats at Invesco Field at Mile High, and made us all proud of all of the Broncos.

To me it’s kind of like an analogy of life…learn to enjoy the journey, don’t just focus on the end result ‘no matter what it takes’ (which for many the end result of achieving of their life’s goals can be disappointing and anti-climactic).

The idea of looking at tough decisions in football (or other sports) as just being responsible to do your job well, which in sports is to win (usually no matter what as long as it’s ethical) sounds more like some big corporation making decisions based on the effect of their bottom line…which most would look down on if some of the consequences affected people negatively.

After all, the justification for what might seem like radical and often painful decisions are often couched by ‘it’s just a business decision’.

Every game I watched Tebow play with the Broncos was exciting, even if we lost. I never enjoyed football so much, and never attended so many games. Guess I’m not in the sports business so it’s more to me than the bottom line and a trophy.

Tim’s Future

I’m fairly confident that whatever team Tebow plays for will benefit from his energy, immensely up-beat attitude, his beliefs (for some), AND his football skills, especially during Q4 in the red zone. And the role model he is both on and off the field is one of those intangibles that everyone talks about with Tim. You get much more than a quarterback when Tim is on your team.

As of March 21, 2012 looks like the NY Jets have picked Tebow up on a trade from the Broncos for a 4th round and 6th round draft pick and about $2.53 million dollars, in trade for Tebow and all that goes with him (a.k.a.”Tebowmania” and all his intangibles), and giving up a 7th round pick.

To me it doesn’t sound like a good fit for either Tim or the Jets. I’m not sure if ‘Tebowmania’ will be as intense or welcome in New York as it has been in Denver (that may depend on how much ball time he gets and under what conditions), and it probably won’t sit well with Sanchez, the Jets quarterback (who just sealed another contract with the Jets for $40.5 million). If I recall correctly Sanchez hasn’t handled very well some of his less than perfect performance or the reaction of the fans to that performance…some might call him fragile in that regard. So it could be devastating to the Jets if (or when?) the crowd starts chanting for Tebow after a bad performance by Sanchez. Think of how hard it was for Kyle Orten with the Broncos.

How will it work?

• Will the Jets trade off some of their 2nd and 3rd string QBs to make room for Tim?
• Will they play the ‘option’ and ‘wildcat’ type of offensive plays to take advantage of Tim’s running abilities as anticipated?
• Will they let him throw on occasion to keep the defense off-balance?
• Will they only put him in when in the red zone, or during short yardage plays for a quick run?
• How much bench time are we talking about?

All unknowns… which I guess the Broncos weren’t interested enough to find out since they’ve got a pretty sure thing in Manning.

Manning a Denver Bronco, No Plan “B”

Sure, Manning will do really well for the Broncos, and I’ll have fun watching, and I’ll grow to be even more of a Manning fan in time and probably even see how this probably was a really good move for the Broncos, even giving us a realistic shot at the Super Bowl over the next few years. We welcome Peyton to Denver, and are excited he is here. We hold him the highest respect. We’ll root him on…

Having Manning with the Broncos also means that Denver will attract some other great free agent talent that will help bring the Broncos to a new level, and will also create much higher expectations for the Broncos (even in the short term). Elway says “there is no plan ‘B’”. They are going to win all the way with Manning.

At the present time it doesn’t even seem like the Broncos have a strategy in place if Peyton gets hurt again. It’s going to be all Peyton all the time, and praying he doesn’t get hurt.

The Broncos do have a contingency in the contract with Peyton that if he doesn’t pass a physical after the 2012 season he will not be cleared for completing his contract for the remaining years and the Broncos have an out, but if he does pass his physical he is guaranteed the next 2 years and $40 million for those next 2 years. The contract is $96 million total for 5 years.

Some of the unknowns that come into play with Manning in Denver as a Bronco:

• His health
• The fact that he didn’t play at all last season
• His age
• The weather in Denver
• And a whole new team, new offense play book, and new environment.

But the Broncos are confident that he’ll overcome, adapt, succeed. I hope they’re right.

Personally, whether I’ll fork up the cash to attend games, and how many, is yet to be seen (especially since I’m fortunate enough to have a beautiful 60″ HDTV). But I’ll still remain a Broncos fan, and will look forward to several good seasons with Peyton leading the charge, and expect some great Manning football action. As usually I can’t wait for football season to start!

End of an Era

But to me, as good as Peyton Manning is and how hopeful the future is for the Broncos, it is still a great loss to see Tebow leave Denver and the Broncos. I’m still reeling from the shock.

Definitely the end of an era that can’t be recaptured, and that sort of thing always feels like a loss even if the next era seems to be just as good or better. Kind of the difference between ‘logical’ and ‘romantic’. Yeah, we’ll win some games, and maybe even a Super Bowl, but will it be as fun and heartfelt? Hopefully we’ll get that romantic feeling again with the Broncos that we enjoyed during the Tebow era. Will that even matter if we win another Super Bowl?

And I’m not sure that trading Tim was the right thing to do. Tim has been ‘the face of the broncos’ for about one full season, and though it’s been a roller coaster it’s been a fun ride. I can only wonder what it would have been like if Manning and Tebow were on the same team for a few years, putting some plays out there that would stump most defenses. Guess I’ll never find out.

It’s also interesting that you don’t hear Kyle Orton’s name very much during all of this moving about of quarterbacks (except for that Brady Quinn will now be playing under him with the Chiefs). I never thought Quinn would amount to anything with the Broncos anyway, so the Chiefs can have him.

All in all to me the situation is bittersweet…looking forward to see how the Broncos develop as a team with Manning at the helm, but it definitely leaves me with a saddened heart to see Tim leave Denver. I’ll be rooting for Tim no matter which team he plays for, because when it comes down to it in my heart we are still on the same team, and we’ve always had Denver. Thanks Tim.

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Huge Limited Time Discount for Premise Landing Pages New v2.0 Release - Now You Can Build Membership Websites and Sell Digital Downloads

One of my favorite plugins just announced a major upgrade and added some awesome new features that are available now…

New Features in Premise Landing Pages 2.0:

- Build rock-solid membership sites with WordPress
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My wife and I have been using ING Direct for many years now. ING was a ‘virtual’ bank, with access online only, with no physical banks you could walk into.

Having no physical locations kept their costs very low, and they were able to pass those cost savings on to their customers by offering very aggressive interest bearing savings accounts.

The main advantages for us to use ING were that they paid higher interest on savings accounts than most banks, and it was also really easy to create several ‘virtual’ accounts to pigeonhole your money into for various reasons…like a ‘New House’ account to save for a new house, an ‘ Auto Repairs’ account, school, and more. All of it was handled online through our web browser.

We also had a checking account with them (they call it Electric Orange) which had an ATM card and also had a little interest earnings.

With the recent purchase of ING Direct by Capital One I guess we’ll gain some physical locations and maybe some other services, but I wonder what will happen to the original reasons we went with ING in the first place.

I guess we’ll give it some time and see how it goes.

You can read more about the Capital One purchase of ING Direct here:

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How to move a LinkedIn Recommendation from one company/position listing to another within your online LinkedIn profile:

Over the last few years I have so far recieved 28 recommendations on my LinkedIn profile. I feel these are very valuable.

The problem I was having is that early on, before I really understood how LinkedIn worked, I had sent recommdation requests or somehow received recommendations UNDER THE WRONG COMPANY and position for which I was being recommended. This left a bit of a gap in my profile under the company/position where I should have had more recommendations listed.

I sent a request to update the recommendation to the correct company listing to someone (a former boss) who had recommended me but had been listed incorrectly. They responded saying they could edit the recommendation but couldn’t move the recommendation to a different company/position within my profile, but asked me to show them how.

So I proceeded to investigate through the LinkedIn Help screens, and quickly came across this post which shows how to move a LinkedIn Recommendation from one company/position to another within your online LinkedIn profile:

Moving a LinkedIn Recommendation

In summary, these are the steps you need to take to move a LinkedIn Recommendation from one company/position that you have worked at to another company/position:

• Go to the company/position which has the recommendations listed incorrectly.
• Copy the description to another document for later use.
• Delete the company/position (don’t worry, you won’t lose all the good recommendations).
• Re-add the company/position (and the detail for that position).
• Go to your Profile (link in upper right corner of screen) -> Settings -> Manage Recommendations.
• Scroll towards the bottom to Unassigned Recommendations (the screenshot below does not show the Unassigned Recommendations tab since I have no Unassigned Recommendations left at this point, but this is where you would see the link/tab to Unassigned Recommendations).
• Re-assign one-by-one the now orphaned recommendations, being sure to now assign them to the correct company/position.
• Check to be sure you have made all of your recommendations publicly visible (Profile -> Settings -> Manage Recommendations) and then checking the “show” box for each recommendation to make it visible within your public LinkedIn profile.

That did the trick…now my LinkedIn profile is cleaned up nicely, with all of my recommendations in the right place.

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This December 2011 was our first year to participate in the ‘Taste Of Christmas‘ event put on by First Baptist Church of Golden. With over 100 people participating, and with live animals for the manger, it was quite an event.

While I was playing the role of ‘Innkeeper’, standing at the door of his inn in Bethlehem greeting those coming to see the long awaited miracle in the manger (live nativity), I entertained the waiting folks with a few corny jokes I made up the night before:

• We are so busy here with everyone coming to the town of Bethlehem, the City Of David, to the town of their origin to be counted for the census…that we have to put people in the stables! We used to be a FIVE star inn, the highest of ratings, but now that we put people in stables we are ONE star inn…BUT…it is the STAR OF BETHLEHEM! So you don’t-a mind so much, ehh?
• We are-a a special kind of inn, known as a “Bed and Breakfast”. We give you a bed of hay to sleep on, and da bed bugs they eat-a you for breakfast!
• Everyone wants to know, what would Jesus do (WWJD)? Well, I have seen him…and right-a now he just a baby, so he would sleep or he would cry…that’s what babies do, and that’s what-a Jesus would do (at least until he-a grow up a little).
• How many shepherds does it take to sheer a sheep? Three. One-a to hold da razor, one-a to hold da sheep, and one to hold da razor. Ohhh, you notice I say razor twice, eh? Ahh…it was a dual edged blade
• How many shepherds does it take to screw in a light bulb? I don’t a know…what is a “light bulb”?
• How many wise men were there at the manger in Bethlehem? Most people day say tree, but I disagree. Let-a me recount them for you… there was-a Balthasar, Melchior, Gaspar, and Frank, the incense-itive one. Everyone-a forget about Frank, he was-a there…and he was a real gift!
• How did the shepherds find the manger with baby Jesus? They used G.P.S., uv course. Gods Provided Sign. GPS is not a new technology, it’s been around for thousands of years.

In spite of my corny jokes and bad accent, I got a lot of smiles and thumbs-up from folks on the way out from the nativity, so I know they really enjoyed it and were blessed by being taken back in time to Bethlehem for just a little while. It’s a good reminder of the reason for the season and the great gift that we all received.

Just a few rantings from an old lama jockey a little off his lama. Be generous with the Innkeeper as you go your way, and it will go well with you…

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Living up in the Rocky Mountains about another 2,000+ feet above Denver, we have deer around our house every day, and about maybe twice per month we have a local herd of elk that wander through our neighborhood.

Up To Our Necks In Elk

The elk usually ‘come down’ from some place higher up in the mountains when the temperatures get below 40 degrees farenheit, but they probably don’t go too far away since they are a local herd known as the ‘Genesee Herd’ (Genesee is a community in the foothills of the rockies at about 7,500ft) this is always somewhere around Genesee.

The Genesee Herd is well over 100 elk…some estimates put it closer to 160-200 elk. It’s pretty impressive to see a herd this size on the hillside.

Last night was especially cool…well, it was about 23 degrees and a foot of fresh snow, but it was also cool like neat/nifty. When driving home around 8:30pm I noticed the herd had moved to the end of our street mixed among the houses. Just before going to bed at about 11pm I noticed out my bedroom window that the herd had moved into our yard. They often come through our yard, but many times it is very very early morning, or at night, so I don’t always see them.

Elk In Genesee

Last night I could see elk all over the place…but I didn’t have the best view from my bedroom window, especially since it was dark. So I decided to go down to the family room which is at ground level looking out the back of our house.

The elk were totally surrounding our house! Elk everywhere. I could see out from 3 sides of our house, and out every window were elk. And they were up CLOSE…munching on the grass just off of our back porch. You can hear them making noises, snorting, even breathing, and shaking their coats. A couple of them went head to head, and got on their hind legs to bout a bit.

After a few minutes, 3 different elk came up onto our back porch, prancing across it. They come up to about my height or even taller when you are at their same level, and weigh several hundred pounds, so it is amazing to be within just a few feet of scores of elk. And it’s amazing to think of how intertwined our lives are with theirs when you live up in the mountains. Like my brother said, who just moved here and saw the herd earlier in the day on the hillside, “it’s like being in National Geographic”.

Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures since it was very dark, and I didn’t want to scare them away. But I do have some photos from before that were taken during the day.

[em]I wonder where the herd is now?[/em]

This morning while writing this I saw a bobcat skulking by (couple weeks ago he ate a squirrel in our yard)…somewhere within my 93,000 photos I have some bobcat pics…

deer on porch

kissing deer

elk

Bull Elk

our house

Red Tail Fox

more deer

Rutting Elk In Our Backyard

fawns are born all around us

more fawn

kind of where we live on the map

our cat making friends with a fawn

cute fawn...can I hug 'em?

coyote are big around here, we've seen them waist high! (outdoor cats don't last long around here)

Genesee Buffalo (up the street in a Denver city park 1 mile away at our exit)

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Sample PRD Product Requirements Document

 

I’m familiar with several Requirements Management tools. Some of my favorites are:

• RequirementsOne (my top choice for a free online Requirements Management tool)
• LiquidPlanner
• GatherSpace
• Workspace.com
• ViewPath

In my opinion, the following are perhaps some of the more complicated tools:

• TechExcel
• DOORS (IBM/Telelogic)
• Agile by RallyDev

…all good choices depending on your budget and project scope.

My Technical Writing and Requirements Management Services

Download Sample Product Requirements Document

I created this Product Requirements Document for an international startup company in Denmark.

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