Mind Mapping SWOT

Mind Mapping is an organizational (and inspirational!) technique for capturing and documenting ideas (or anything). Mind Maps are tree-like diagrams that start with a central idea at its core, and related ideas branch from it. I discovered that I naturally took notes and brainstormed in a "mind map" sort of way, so some of this … Continue reading Mind Mapping SWOT →

Levenshtein Distance

A few years ago, while I was doing research for my Similarity Index paper and prototype, I ran across the idea of the Levenshtein Distance. Basically the Levenshtein Distance (LD) is a metric to determine the minimum cost of edits (i.e., insert, delete, or substitute) required to transform one word (or sequence of characters) into … Continue reading Levenshtein Distance →

MLB LED Scoreboard Layout Tweaks

[Re-posted from dm_misc] I've been having a lot of fun with my MLB LED Scoreboard. I started to work with the layout a little to make it more to my liking. Specifically, I: Added a single line of blank LEDs between the visiting and home teams. It makes a big difference when the teams use … Continue reading MLB LED Scoreboard Layout Tweaks →

The Thinker’s Toolkit

[Re-post from dm_misc] I just finished reading a fascinating book titled, The Thinker’s Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving, by Morgan D. Jones. The book is not new – my version was copyrighted in 1998 – but still a great read. After an interesting look at how your brain is your own worst enemy … Continue reading The Thinker’s Toolkit →

MLB LED Scoreboard for Opening Day 2019

[Re-posted from dm_misc] I've had my eye on this open source project for a while, and during the off season I finally got around to building it. Here's how I did it. The GitHub project contains nearly all the information you need: https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard.  The accompanying WiKi has good info also, including the parts list and … Continue reading MLB LED Scoreboard for Opening Day 2019 →

Welcome to my new blog

Hi, and welcome to my new blog. For many years I blogged at dm_misc: Miscellaneous Documentum Information where I focused almost exclusively on Documentum news, implementation, and best practices. I stopped updating that site in the fall of 2016 when I left the enterprise content management (ECM) industry to support a digital forensics lab, where … Continue reading Welcome to my new blog →