Category: Computers


  • Programmers

    Gave a former coworker, Stu, from my Valdosta State days a heads up about a complaint my brother heard from a close friend of his. Stu is working with Sakai these days at Georgia Institute of Technology. He made an interesting comment: It would be great to have all the energy your team puts into…

  • Finally got over my YouTube issue…. Basically, the upload form said files were limited to 100MB. That’s like 1 minute for the default settings of my Canon Elph (640×480 @ 60 fps). So I end up not having to use longer videos I shot. Until I found Google Video had a downloadable tool to push…

  • So Dreamhost who I use for hosting my domains had a big whoops today. I saw an email from them where they charged me for $359 (for the same stuff x2). I sent a WTH email. I read my RSS feeds next and found out the above issue. I understand the mistake. I appreciate the…

  • I just finished How Doctors Think yesterday. First impression was doctors don’t spend very much time thinking and gathering information to make a diagnosis. That impress struck a very negative chord with me as it sounds like in my profession of database and computer administration we spend hours picking apart the data we have to…

  • “Second, if you add me as a friend I assume you want me to send you emails and interact with you.” — Plaxo: the social monster? – Scobleizer Robert is the geek equivalent of Paris Hilton or Brittany Spears or Lindsey Lohan: A sad trainwreck we all thank a higher being that its not us.…

  • Poor Simon Frasier. I am curious about the advice to logout and login. With our slow down a year ago, it was exactly the users doing this which worsened the issue. Our issue was partially with a script located on the page users reached immediately after login.

  • Are You a Battery?

    Yup. I would take the blue pill every time. 🙂 I’m happy being a battery. If I didn’t want Facebook to have control of my data, then I would not give that data to Facebook. Show your anger with your feet. Leave and make all of your zombie followers go with you! Build your own…

  • Chris Hambly is asking for thoughts and reflections on Blackboard. I deal with Blackboard nearly daily. We have one of the largest implementations of Vista. A choice to migrate to something else would affect around 180,000 people. So that choice will be very carefully maide. Of course, the longer we stay, the larger we grow…

  • Went by the office to pay rent. This woman (learned later it was Rose) in a bathrobe and ‘jammies asked the woman leaving the rent drop if she works in the office. The one paying rent said what she was doing. So, Rose asked if I could help her. I asked what is the problem?…