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    Nothing like spending 4 days unconnected to any internet service, exploring the sights of Vegas and surrounding area with my wife as a way to celebrate our third anniversary. We had a great time, lots of laughs, lots of fun and took lots of pictures, which I’m sure we’ll have online some time soon. Of…

  • Interesting discussion

    In the comments for that last post we’ve been discussing the possibility of adding the comment link into the RSS feed item, so that you could click a link in your aggregator to leave a comment and skip the whole “Going to the site” thing. Andrew first suggested it, and then he went and figured…

  • Issues on other sites

    This is just a note to those of you who may wander over here from the Child Abuse site. There’s a problem with the MySQL backend right now that prevents me from posting anything new, and you from leaving comments. (A Perl mod somehow isn’t installed anymore when it had been working fine until yesterday,…

  • Your People Are Routing Around Your IT Security

    That combination of things points to one, larger, issue. There’s a pretty large communication gap between IT and business users. The security restrictions that exist are getting in the way of people getting work done, and rather than ask for them to be changed, users simply work around them using their own tools, maybe even their own laptops, or network connections, and the IT folks don’t even know this is happening.

    That’s a recipe for disaster. It might be time to work on communicating with your users, and of course when I say “communicate” that absolutely means listening too.

  • Talking Google

    Did we really need another IM service? Of all the many things Google could build with all the IPO money they’ve gotten recently is this really one of the things that should be high on the list? Are they in cahoots with the makers of Trillian, who’s free version won’t work with the Jabber protocol,…

  • How the IoT Goes From Pretty Cool to Oops in One Fishy Story

    Once, there was a casino with an awesome fish tank, that required a lot of monitoring to keep it operating efficiently for the fish. Enter, the Internet of Things… The fish tank had sensors connected to a PC that regulated the temperature, food and cleanliness of the tank. OK, that’s kind of cool. We can…

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