Yes... I'll be in line, actually online, ordering mine on June 15th. I swear, Steve Jobs could sell me a rainy day... You can see his keynote here.
Tag Archive: Technology
Facebook virgin no more
A few clicks and just like that I'm on Facebook... I resisted it for years, not sure why, perhaps because everyone was doing it and and I simply enjoy the path less traveled. Not to mention this blog has been my online existence for many years and I just didn't see the need. The thing ...
Passionless in IT
Can "IT crawl out from under the ambition-crushing, innovation-sucking, soul-destroying minutiae of just keeping the digital lights on." An interesting line from a recent article in Computerworld. Seems the passion within IT of truly engaged professionals has fallen from a high in 2007 of ...
Back online
It's been a busy few weeks, I think, since the ole blog has been functional. As I've alluded to previously, it was time for a fairly serious change at philatkinson.org. Baseball and softball will remain a passion here, but I ...
Interacting with IT
Jennifer sent me this list a few weeks ago; it's one of those internet lists that get circulated via email. I haven't personally experienced all of these, but over the last 15 years, I've experienced my share of them... they're a lot funnier reading than experiencing for sure. Years ago an office manager who got sick ...
Glad to meet you, I’m Negative Nancy
So today I'm Negative Nancy, all because I pointed someone to Preston Gralla's article, "Why Chrome OS Will Turn to Lead". They didn't even want to hear a differing opinion, sorta like sticking your head in the sand pretending all is right in the world, I guess. I don't know if Gralla is ...
So you think you’re having a bad day
One of my techs had a software problem this morning and had to call support -- a pretty rare event around here. And after describing the problem to support, the tech responded and I quote. "I knew I should've taken the day off." Just in case you're wondering... that's never a good sign.
New JCBI website
It took a little longer than anticipated, but the new JCBI website is online. Because of several ongoing projects at work I choose Wordpress over Drupal for this website. I sort of have mixed feeling about that decision, I feel a little trapped by Wordpress and miss the flexibility that Drupal offers me. ...
Back from VMworld 2008
Spent last week in Las Vegas at VMworld along with 14,000+ other IT professionals. Pretty amazing what 14,000 nerds can do to cell networks, wireless and internet access --you can pretty much forget about it. It was my first VMworld and my first conference in ...
Blackberry or iPhone
I rarely post anything about technology anymore, which may seem odd for an IT guy. There's just so many folks already doing that sort of thing, I just don't feel that I can add much more to the conversation already taking place. And besides, I'm more into the management of technology these days and ...
