Henry Kampa
Henry John Kampa passed away Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Henry was my father-in-law and, more importantly, the loving husband of Marlene and father of Tom,...
iPod Generation
Last Saturday, I had one of my best friends and his kids over for a barbeque with me and my kids (my wife was away...
Big Ole
One of the reasons I love this business is getting to visit our clients. Today, I had the pleasure of driving to Alexandria, MN, to...
Getting Unstuck With Ideas That Stick
One of the stickiest books of the year is Made to Stick by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. This book is everywhere, it seems. A...
Thinking of You
We’re fortunate to have MLS clients in Blacksburg, Roanoke and the Lexington-Buena Vista-Rockbridge areas of Virginia. You all are in our thoughts and prayers as...
What Makes A Home Valuable?
Larry Cragun’s post today, called Unique Features Make Homes Valuable, makes me wonder whether effective listing data standards are possible. How do you describe that...
RETS Meeting Next Week
Next week Jaison Freed and I trek off to Austin for the spring RETS meetings. Up first on the agenda is a mammoth (almost all...
MLS 7.0 (re-post because I’m stupid)
I’m re-posting my MLS 7.0 post because, incredibly, I deleted the original. I started the post with my primary laptop but finished it with my...
The Dog Woke Me Up
When I wake up in the middle of the night, which is often, I have a bad habit of looking at the tablet PC I...
I Thought April Fool’s Day Was Over
Nobody said life was easy here in North Dakota. April 3rd!
Not another post on days on market!?
Yep, sorry. But maybe this post is different, because we write MLS software and need to try to accommodate the many diverging views. Wow, are...
Mapping Mayhem
We’re designing a new mapping module for our MLS software and one of the key design decisions we’re trying to make is how to handle...