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Archive for March 12th, 2009

Geeking Out Over iPhone OS 3.0

In just a few short days, Apple will preview its new iPhone 3.0 software.  While I truly am awaiting the actually next generation iPhone, I am hopeful that the new software release addresses some of the current features that the iPhone lacks and every other mobile phone seems to have.  Don’t get me wrong, this [...]

Worst Case Scenario – Impending Layoffs

I’m one of those people who has never tried drugs or had any interest in trying drugs (boring, I know), but one of my quips when people criticize me for my lack of curiosity and experimentation, is that I am always confident that if I were offered the opportunity of a lifetime, I would not [...]

IT Heretics

While sifting through my feeds today I came across a great summation of IT culture in organizations written by Cory Doctorow, a co-editor for Boing Boing. Cory writes: The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve yesterday’s technology needs, even if that means strangling tomorrow’s technology solutions. The myth [...]