Blog Week One: Technically Speaking ...

Welcome to my blog--Here, I will share insights with you on a weekly basis of some of what I see, think about and experience as the editor of USGlass magazine (www.usglassmag.com). So here goes ... week one, post one.

The first week back at work after a long holiday weekend is always the toughest. One of the events to kick my week into full swing was a conference call last Monday morning that ended up lasting an hour and a half. I was driving back to work that morning from my travels of the past weekend, so I had to do the call in the car on my cell phone. I had timed my drive perfectly to make sure that at 11 a.m. I would be in area where I new the cell service would be strong. And rather than drive, talk, listen and take notes from the call all at the same time, I decided it best to find a spot where I could stop and give my full attention to the call. It all worked out so well, that when I made it to the office an hour and a half later everyone was quite surprised to hear that I had been on the cell phone during the conference call as the service and reception were so crisp and clear. That's technology, I thought.

Later in the week (yesterday, to be exact) it was time to create this blog page. It seemed easy enough at first, but then I ended up with numerous problems with setting up the login and password, then the whole page went missing. After an hour or of trying to recover my long-lost, never-been-viewed-by-anyone-but-me-site, we finally recovered it. And that, too, is technology, I thought.

Which brings me to this: Technology (for better or worse) has changed and will continue to change how we work, where we work and the projects on which we work. Your job, my job and most any other job can be done pretty much anywhere thanks to cell phones, wireless computers, the Internet, etc. I'm curious about some of the ways technological innovations have changed the way you do your job in the glass industry. You can email me at egiard@glass.com to let me know.