After a bit of a start stop in 2020 we had to change our trip from Jim’s DNA trip of Sicily and Greece to Rome and Greece for flexibility. I reached out to our BNB host from several years back…
Running in Greece
6 miles on Lemnos – from the resort to Kalliopi. Kept it at a 9 min pace and it was nice and flat. The feeling of running these past few days in Greece has been amazing. I can’t lie that…
Driving Devices ISO 202022 and Faster Payments
I came to NCR to sell a modern ATM driving and transaction processing platform. The goal was to leverage a platform that was focused on transforming messages and building in flexibility to adjust for what was to come, not what…
Running – Strong
March 2021 – hitting my best times in years. After committing all of 2020 to changing the game I’m in the best shape of my life. Down to 158 and running almost every day. I took on Jack Daniels’ running…
Running Again
I’m running again. Last year I tried it – June in anticipation of the Peachtree. Fail – by the second week fo July I had stopped. Then in March of this year everything changed. The Pandemic was beginning, I started…
Strides
Oh my God, I’ve been running strides all wrong! Yes I am a runner, whatever that means. To me it means I ran in high school and I should know these things. I read Daniels’ book and it didn’t pop…
Quality Workout
Week two of my Phase 2 program under the Daniels’s running formula. Today’s run was a quality work out meaning it included a focus on building strength and speed as well as ongoing endurance. I’m so lucky to have the…
Austin TX
Here is a dump of notes on Austin. From a friend who is there, an Uber driver and our experience there. We had a great weekend – hit at least three microbreweries, restaurants, a blues/country band and lots of walking.…
Is it time for ISO 20022 ATM Driving? Is it time to abandon ATM Driving all together?
Could an ISO 20022 web-services based ATM Terminal Handler/Driver reduce costs and accelerate innovation by consolidating applications, connections and platforms. Would bankers, ATM vendors and bank application providers get on board with such a strategy? Do we still need ATM drivers in an IOT world? One idea to help banks remain PCI compliant, maintain legacy connections but become more innovative and extensible with their ATM strategy in an open banking world.
Why and How we went from SaaS to Cloud, Services to APIs – It’s just Business!
Just how does Amazon or Google scale to such a huge number of transactions or inquiries? How are these companies able to afford to serve so many customers every day, with new services, nonstop again and again? The economics behind…