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 12% to only 4% in 2009.
Without a doubt it’s been a difficult [...]
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 [...]
The company I work for recently made a major announcement about changes within the Senior Executive circles. And it did so in a not so traditional fashion, making the announcement on the company blog by the outgoing CEO himself. No filters, no committees, no PR team, none of that.
I had planned to update the blogging [...]
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 years.
I won’t go into the details of the conference — [...]
I spent a few days in Phoenix last week on business, part of which was a meeting with the Diamondbacks and attending an evening ball game. I can think of no better way to spend an evening –Chase Field was awesome. A clear evening about 70 degrees with a slight breeze and front [...]
Yep! That about sums it up… Infoworld is throwing its weight behind an effort to stop Microsoft from abandoning Windows XP for that piece of crap they’re trying to ram down our throats; Vista. I guess that makes my position on Vista pretty clear. From a corporate view, XP does what we [...]
I spent a good part of this past fall traveling all over the midwest for work, (one of the many reasons I’ve been missing in action lately). Anyway, I was able to visit several universities, talk with lots of great people and even managed to sneak off with the camera a few times. Here’s [...]
Hope you’ll all forgive me — the blog’s been suffering lately. Life’s been pretty crazy the last few months and I’ve been away traveling for work. Much of Septemebr has been spent away from home, then toss in fall baseball and the ole plate is pretty full. Hopefully things will slow [...]
First off let me say that this posting is for me and my own personal development. If you’re not interested in, concerned with, or just wondering what the heck; keep in mind the URL you typed in the browser that got you here is my name, not yours. You’re free to leave just as quickly [...]
Spending almost my entire life working with technology – the last 10 years in Information Technology, I thought I've pretty much seen and heard it all. Obviously not yet. Today while Joel (one of our network guys) was working on a new Vista box we have, he ran into a little issue with [...]