Tag Archive: Technology

iPhone 4

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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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