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- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts
- Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accountsWhy...Why are you people so hard on Palin? She can't help it. She suffers from Palinitis: You open your mouth, out pops a lie.I mean, she is only running for Vice President of the United States, with the additional possibility...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Should our President be computer literate?
- Should our President be computer literate?The man with the BlackBerry gets my voteAlthough I fundamentally agree with you that being the leader of the free world is a bit more important that being able to check email and certainly requires a much broader range of qualifications, I have to say...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Should our President be computer literate?
- Normally I don't like to talk about my political and socio-economic opinions, particularly because as a matter of experience once people discover my true leanings, they sometimes find my completely unrelated opinions on technology, food, or whatever it else we have in common to be less...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Smasher (dmg)
- Smasher the performance partner to your Mac OS X font manager, gives you the power to look deep inside your fonts and suitcases to solve problems fast. Using Smasher, you can fix font display and printing problems, check basic font integrity, clean up font folder and suitcase nightmares, eliminate application...
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?We don't expect integrity any moreI don't trust any 'journalists' anymore, I just try to read everything I can and make my own conclusions. No one admits to their biases, nor do they admit to special considerations or past affiliations, except the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
- <update:> I received this message from Jeff Jarvis regarding this post: "I had no access to Google. I have no idea why the words "generous access" are in quotes. Those certainly are not my quotes. I chose to write my book from a distance without any...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Good data, good SOA
- No sooner had I put up my last post on why SOA needs data governance when I see Dave Linthicum had posted a similar theme at his site a little earlier in the day. <Commence Twilight Zone theme music....> Dave observes that the best approach to SOA...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- NetSuite parts ways with largest reseller
- NetSuite parts ways with largest resellerThis is one of the reasons the Cloud doesn't make good business senseI would hate to have been a business using Netsuite and Skytech products in tandem. It also looks like Netsuite is going to try to drop it's small business customers. Hooray for Netsuite!!!...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science classGuilty of Heresy!The society has behaved just like the Orthodox church behaved, whenever someone put forward ideas that were not in line with its doctrines. It is a shameful act by the society, and just underscores that religious intolerance exists everywhere -...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Economic crisis as a technology change agent
- Sometimes, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs. However if this week's bloodbath on Wall Street is any indication, then I would say we've made ourselves a full-blown deep dish quiche the size of Yankee Stadium with tens of billions of cartons...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuit
- NVIDIA slapped with securities lawsuitLooks like some lawyers are going to get rich.Looks like some lawyers are going to get rich. man them guys are blood sucking leaches. they are akin to sharks. they smell blood and they go in for the kill. they try and make you think they...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Demo Jam Live: SAP meets enterprise 2.0; The ROI of spell check
- Welcome to Demo Jam Live--SAP's developer fest meets American Idol. Here's how it works: Techies submitted proposals for their newfangled enterprise creations and the list was whittled down to a few key finalists. These finalists will then duke it out for the best demo of the night--as judged by the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Where there's hype, there's fire?
- Where there's hype, there's fire?Growing Pains?Is it that they are doing an end run? Or is it that some are seeing the power of connectivity and desire to find ways of leveraging it? Perhaps both.There is always some hype surrounding new technology but after that's gone, something...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0
- As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Revenge of the techies
- Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Could Google's Chrome be death blow to Firefox?
- No doubt, Google's forthcoming open source browser -- known as Chrome -- is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short...
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
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