Whenever you add an employee to your business, you have to expect changes. Since James has returned to the Logical Expressions fold, he has not only added his skills, he also added music.
While James was working at the Big Company, he signed up for Yahoo Launch. The Big Company has huge, huge bandwidth and screamingly fast Internet access, so having an online radio station running all the time was no big deal. James even coughed up the money for the ad-free version.
After he left Big Company, he still had Launch, so he’d play it through his computer and nerd away. We have a stereo with speakers wired into both our offices, so at some point, I innocently asked him, "is there some way to run Launch through the stereo?"
Well, this is the type of nerdy, techy, music type question James loves. So he immediately leaped up and began poking around the back of the stereo and the back of his computer. He subsequently proclaimed that "yes, we can do it, but we need a cable." He described the type of connectors and we vowed to add it to a list somewhere.
A little later, I decided to clean up a few of the many piles in my office. I put away a pad of paper in a drawer and lo and behold, sitting right there was the exact cable James had described. (It was from a digital camera.) Anyway, I brought the cable into his office. James rummaged around the back of the stereo and the back of his computer again and suddenly, music was playing through the stereo.
Since James already "trained" Launch on the music we like, all we hear is cool music. It’s like having a radio station that only plays music you like, without any commercials.
Yes, sometimes change is good.