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Welcome to my website. I'm not much of a website designer. But I love technologies, especially open source. This page is an attempt at finding a really simple open-source website builder. I use DokuWiki for my company Tribal Shout. Being familiar with how simple it is to maintain and with some of the cool plugins, I decided to make my personal page on DokuWiki.

2008-04-05T15:33:32-07:00 2008-04-05T15:33:32-07:00 2008-04-05T15:33:32-07:00 http://www.davek.org/blog:written:private_sector_model_for_the_schools?rev=1207434812&do=diff root

I learned something interesting the other day. Santa Clara County uses a private-sector model for it's k-12 schools. This increases efficiency and enables a draw of best practices from the private sector to make the most of our tax dollars. Here's how it works. The Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) provides services to 32 school districts in Santa Clara and San Benito counties. These services include HR, payroll, assessment, IT, etc. As I understand it, the school districts ma…

2008-03-26T17:51:48-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:48-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:48-07:00 http://www.davek.org/blog:written:using_a_wiki?rev=1206579108&do=diff root

I'm having a great time using dokuwiki. The thing about wikis is they make creating content within a site really, really easy. Check out our Komacke music site. Of course this site is based on wiki software. What makes wiki software so great? Once you have a wiki deployed (which in and of itself is pretty easy), creating content, pages, etc is really easy. Want to make a new page? Type it in. Page doesn't exist? Click the “create page” button.

2008-03-26T17:51:35-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:35-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:35-07:00 http://www.davek.org/blog:written:how_i_m_spending_my_time?rev=1206579095&do=diff root

It's an interesting situation. We are working hard on Tribal Shout, getting funding and such. Usage is the key word on funding so we are pursing all the angles we know to increase registered users and usage. Until then, I need an income. The consulting game has been fun. Recently I did an evaluation for an investor of one of his portfolio companies that spent all their money. The question was whether or not good money would go after good or bad money.

2008-03-26T17:51:25-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:25-07:00 2008-03-26T17:51:25-07:00 http://www.davek.org/blog:written:choice_of_gin?rev=1206579085&do=diff root

Gin is clear. That might lead you to believe that all gins taste the same. Not so! Gin is flavored with essences that dramatically affect the taste. Don't believe me? Order a gin&tonic and a Tanquery&tonic. Just smell the glass. Tanquery makes a nasty martini. Bombay sapphire makes a good standard martini and it has the advantage of being available everywhere (at least in the US). Just order a sapphire martini.