Been thinking about innovation, outsourcing, and the world in general.

Two articles have caught my eye in recent days that point out the weird disconnect between the crummy employment numbers and the fact that some manufacturers are going begging for employees. Both are from the New York Times. The first puts a "human face," as we used to call it in journalism class, on the vexing problem of trying to hire qualified people for manufacturing jobs.

I had the opportunity to attend the Fieldbus Foundation Seminar in Vancouver last week and was not only pleasantly surprised by the turn out, some folks drove up from Seattle, but more importantly the fact that several EPC companies were represented. This was the second of the 2010 North America seminar series and next up is St. Louis in April.

I forgot, yesterday, to say anything about the "invited talk" that _I_ gave.

Here's the abstract: