Darkly Colored Felines of Fury » cogneto http://blackcat.ca Personal site for Patrick Audley and Blackcat Systems. Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:11:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Leaving Cogneto http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto004 http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto004#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:28:13 +0000 Patrick Audley http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto004 So, without much ado, I'm no longer with Cogneto and am joining my two friends Andy Dale and John Bradley to bring solid, usable, user-centric identity and authentication to the world under the mighty rubric of Wingaa. As is often the case, transitioning from one job to another was rockier than it first looked. It was full of bitter-sweet moments mixed liberally with some sad moments and a huge swelling of excitement and hope for the future. I've gained a pile of insight and a good set of lessons to take to my next venture. I try when I leave a job to figure out what the best lesson was and I think that, in retrospect, we didn't have enough transparency and that should have been a warning sign. We had a very smart group of people who were kept from seeing or helping with problems because they didn't know about them. That's my key lesson from this job - transparency is a hallmark of a good company.
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]]> http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto004/feed/ 0 Whirlwind Europe trip with Ralph http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto002 http://blackcat.ca/work/cogneto002#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:47:30 +0000 Patrick Audley http://blackcat.ca/lifelines/cogneto002 I had just finished an investor relations trip in Europe for Cogneto. It was fun but extremely busy - one of those non-stop business trips where days are filled with meetings and evenings with... more meetings. We stayed at an amazing hotel (especially by London's standards) near Shepherd's Market in Mayfair. It was a short walk to our UK office off Berkeley Square and generally close to most other fun bits of London. We walked all over, paid homage to the Apple Store, ate in Soho, rode the tube. All very British and fun. Managed to have some great meals too! That was a shock - last time I was in the UK, good food was a scare commodity. I had my first Steak and Kidney pie which was amazing. We spent quite a bit of time hanging out at Adrian's private club Morton's. Very nice place to sit back for a few drinks after at day full of work. We managed to spend a day in Paris though all I saw of the city was from the cab windows between venues. Much traveling later saw us in Dresden for the weekend. Dresden was a surprise in many ways with it's juxtaposition of beautiful Saxon architecture and blocky communist buildings. There were tourists everywhere in the Old City but after we moved away from the main areas we found quite a few gems including "Al Capone's" Italian restaurant on Aleunstrabe. Overall a very nice city to hang out in, certainly one of the cheapest parts of Europe I've been in for good food, excellent beer, and swish accommodation.

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  • October 30, 2006, Bruce Audley aka Dad writes: Yikes! Could it be? Your dad's favorite all time food is steak and kidney pie and you are now just discovering it? Could it be that all those years you were hiding in your room staring at a computer screen with those cursed bats flying around your shoulders, that you were missing the culinary feasts brewing in the upstairs kitchen? Say it ain't so! Okay, maybe the pies were store bought and dragged home from "Safeway" but, they were still epicurian fare for a couple of "Highlands" ruffians.
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