When writing code, any code, you have always have to wary of the enemy. Sometimes the enemy is bugs in your code. And we all know what havoc that can cause, but they are usually benign. Usually.
When the code in question is running a website, your enemy is the legions of crackers (they are commonly […]

I ordered Mobylo!’s Empower HTML Mail Viewer (not deserving of a link thus far) after reading some good comments of it. So after reviewing their site, I ordered it. Well my order is on hold for who knows how long. The site said 15 minutes, but now, hours later, still no Empower. I also ordered […]

One of our companies has a hugely distributed staff. One of their biggest problems has been collaborating with each other to get things done. Email had been the biggest workhorse in the battle, but that adds a ton of complexity to the situation. There were so many multiple versions of documents it took a lot […]

I just upgraded my BlackBerry to an 8800. This thing is Awesome, notice the capital A! It has the “pearl” (bka a trackball) and I was a little nervous about getting it. That pearl caught my eye immediately as I’ve never been much of a fan of the side wheel. Not only because of the […]

I was outfitting some new systems at a client lately when I saw something odd. The secretary was busy filling out a directory for the boss. A directory created in Word. When I asked why it was done this way, I received that age old “it’s always…..”.
When I asked were these folks in the Global […]

I’ve commented in the past about my suspicions about eBay buying up payment operator PayPal. I was wary about PayPal in the past but now using them to buy at eBay seemed like it would be a monumental bad move. My suspicions have been proved correct.
Where once you felt protected by the double edged sword, […]

I’ve said it before here, that Microsoft should just leave the EU. They won’t be happy until Microsoft’s competitiveness is gone, and some half baked software company is out peddling alpha-ware to businesses. Not that Microsoft is clean in that aspect. Vista is proving that!
My real question is, who are they targeting after […]

It has been just over two years since I last wrote about Software as a Service (SaaS). Some of my points then are still valid but like anything, my opinions have changed a bit.
I use several SaaS products and during 2006, they had uptimes amongst the high 90s in availability. The only time they were […]

Bill has RTMed his latest assault vying for world domination. After being asked what I thought about it, as if someone really cares what I think, I thought I would put a few comments here.
Vista is pretty. I don’t like it. I am a command line guy mostly. I can work faster with the CLI […]

How good are your backups? If you were like me, I would have said outstanding last week. I mean, our local computer systems have system state backups. The all-important data is backed up locally and remotely nightly. Our servers get either a weekly or daily incremental (depending on its functionality) continuously. Our hosted web pages […]