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EclipseCon Day Zero: Tired but excited

Whew! What a long trip, but I'm finally at the Hyatt for EclipseCon 2006. Up at 5am this morning, NC to Phoenix, then San Diego, then finally to San Jose. Total travel time: 9 1/2 hours. Blergh.Originally I had this nice 2:30pm flight lined up, which would arrive at 10pm....

Tags: 5AM

Blog posts 2006-03-19

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Best Black Friday 2007 blockbuster deals

Well it's that time of year again to kick off the 2007 Christmas shopping season and it's the best time to find the best bargains in shopping since retailers are desperately trying to get you in to the stores.  Not everything will be available since some or many of these...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., HDTV, LCD, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Within days of Taser International going on defensive due to one death, another 3 men die

In case you missed my coverage of the consumer-oriented Tasers that were on display at CES earlier this year, you can see our video showing how a hot pink-colored consumer-oriented taser pictured left was used to immobilize a CES-showgoer. The consumer-oriented model isn't as robust as the model used...

Tags: Death, TASER International Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-19

AMD drags feet on taking down bogus benchmarks

AMD drags feet on taking down bogus benchmarksAndreThe effect is a good win for enthusiast observers. They and Intel both have the bogus bench bug in dire times. Deal with it.What difference does this make????In the long run, you win some journalistic victory, but the consumer is neither harmed or...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, E-mail, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Daylight saving shift fails to curb energy use

Daylight saving shift fails to curb energy useOnly the US Government ...This really makes me laugh - could the US government POSSIBLY get any more egg on their faces - first there are NO weapons of mass destruction - then they force IT departments to spend a tonne of time...

Tags: DST, New DST, Daylight Saving Time

Discussion threads 2007-04-03

What does Daylight Saving Time cost IT?

What does Daylight Saving Time cost IT?DST should be bannedDST has failed to demonstrate real benefits to people over the years, but adds needless complications. It makes exchange of time-related data across timezones and borders extremely difficult. The so-called energy savings cannot be proven. There is x...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Patches, Servers, information technology, Daylight Saving Time, DST

Discussion threads 2007-03-07

Ethics? what's that gonna cost me?

Ethics? what's that gonna cost me?The golden rule of consulting...... is that they'll never let you make too much change. No matter what they say and no matter what they offer, radical change is never welcome.In all 6 six cases you presented I would say that the organisations are dysfunctional....

Tags: Business ethics, ethics, judgement

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

$249 Toshiba L35 thin and light notebook w/Vista coupon!

$249 Toshiba L35 thin and light notebook w/Vista coupon!Eventually I will upgradeBut with Novell/SUSE, I am doing just fine with a five-year old laptop Pentium M (pre-Centrino) 1.7Ghz Cowbook, and have all the nicities, including Xgl 3D Desktop special-effects.If anything, I have to say SUSE may not boot faster than...

Tags: Notebooks, Cable, Network technology, notebook, Best Buy Co. Inc., Toshiba L35, laptop computer, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba L35 thin

Discussion threads 2006-11-22

It's good to be a programmer

Combine a full time job at Microsoft and weekends spent filming a movie (up at 5AM, back in bed usually around 9PM), and what do you get? A bad blogger. I haven't exactly been lighting up the keyboards of late, mostly because when I sit down to write after working...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., programming

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Meeting with Hong Kong's technology czar and other adventures . . .

I was a busy bee on Thursday. The day started slowly, I had trouble getting out of bed due to a 5am stop but by 11am I was up and running and heading down to Santa Clara a for a meeting with Hong Kong's technology czar Dr Robert Yang. Boyd...

Tags: Oxonica, Dr Yang

Blog posts 2006-02-24

Your one day to buy a $100 PC

Your one day to buy a $100 PCMost Interesting/Happy ThanksgivingIt's getting so, technology has become bargain-basement--very good for the consumer.It's 'Black Friday' tomorrow in the US!This day makes or beaks some retailers, in terms of profitably, hence the term 'black'.The readers may also be interested to know, and, no doubt...

Tags: SMB/SME, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Unix, Linspire, small and medium business, PC

Discussion threads 2005-11-24

Daylight saving change could confuse gadgets

Daylight saving change could confuse gadgetsWhat's the big deal?Just don't enable DST.could save...and could cost livesDidn't they learn a lesson the last time they did this back in the '70's? Several school childeren were run over in the dark in Florida that year, and the state did not go on...

Tags: DST

Discussion threads 2005-08-08

Workers to employers: Show me the time off

Workers to employers: Show me the time offI'll take the cashI'd take a $5000 raise anyday. But than I already get four weeks of vacation time a year.I Don't Have That Problem...I get 4 weeks off a year in addition to the regular holidays, plus I only have to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Digital music, worker, time off, job

Discussion threads 2005-01-11

MoveOn looks to Net for political ad stars

MoveOn looks to Net for political ad starsMove onMove on needs to move on to a Communist country like China. Bush 2004 :)W2004MoveOn needs to learn the difference between truth...and what they promote."The latest campaign asks people to fill out a survey telling 'personal stories' that would illuminate choices between...

Tags: MoveOn, Rumsfeld, prisoner, advertisement

Discussion threads 2004-07-02

Microsoft releases Windows, Office fixes

Microsoft releases Windows, Office fixesMS plans distraction campaignTo try and blunt the security backlash looks like M$ decided to buy a favorable security review. Who believes anything they say? M$ has even less credibility than Bush, if that's possible. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/11/HNmsassault_1.htmlM$ is screwing people again!This evil is making...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2003-11-11