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Stories from my Past: IT part-time firefighter
In IT you get to do a great many things. I love the variety. Every day is unique and different. Once I was microwaving something and when I put the object to warm up down, the plate was very hot. This...
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Women sell themselves short on team projects, study suggests
Women sell themselves short on team projects, study suggests. I have noticed this as well. People have very specific ideas of themselves and can twist their environment to support their own...
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DC Online and Crossplay
I have mentioned before that I enjoy playing DC Online an MMO game. Recently they introduced a feature called Crossplay. The goal is that the former separate playing environments for the PS3, the PS4,...
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The downside of playing online games
I have talked about before about the positive and upside of playing online games. This weekend I experienced the downside and now I have to change because of it. It is relaxing and fun to play a game...
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Water bottle that is 100% degradable
So using Algae this water bottle totally degrades. I wonder if this is the next generation of bottles for natural companies like Naked? What is cool about this is that it was developed relatively...
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Looking for a Firewall? If you can afford it, buy a Palo Alto.
I have worked with firewalls from many vendors. They always did the job, but were complex and time consuming to administer. I helped a client with a new Palo Alto firewall that they had installed, and...
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Sub $500 laptops-could one be right for you?
Many companies I have worked with have asked me to save money and you have to find creative ways to do it. One of the favorite ways for companies to save money, is to give equipment to its employees...
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Having problems with malware on your computer?
Are you having problems with malware on your computer? No matter how good your endpoint protection is (anti-virus, anti-everything), it will still not know or be able to catch everything. So it always...
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One Dam can be replaced with 3 wind generators
Watching a Netflix documentary DamNation talks about the status of Dams in the United States. One of the surprising things I learned is that many of them are very old in terms of power generation. For...
View ArticleStreaming services are great for discovery
I was listening to Tidal yesterday and just randomly surfing songs. Its fun to just randomly listen to songs and sometimes you find great music. I ran into a piece of music that I had forgotten about...
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People want it both ways
There is a documentary on Netflix I am watching called “Revenge of the electric car”. It has some big names who were interviewed for it. Elon Musk, Bob Lutz and so on. It is fascinating their thought...
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Separating work and personal technology and files
It is understandable people want to combine their work and personal lives, it just becomes problematic at times. What I have noticed is that people especially want to use their computer in a personal...
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One day Internet security will be automatic
According to research being done now one day Internet security will be automatic. According to the article above, this software is able to detect flaws in security and automatically fix them. This...
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Stories from My Past: Can you do it in a week?
We are all given challenges, and this is one of mine. In educational environments like universities there are lots of politics. I was asked to set up several hundred new iMacs with software....
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My experience with Outsourcing
Outsourcing has both been difficult and helpful to me and here is why. I have worked for many companies that felt that they could save money by outsourcing their IT department. It is difficult of...
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Siri makes pretty good recommendations
If you want a recommendation based on Yelp, Siri is pretty good at making them. I don’t trust Yelp, but sometimes they have useful reviews. I asked Siri for a car wash in my neighborhood and it gave me...
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Want to stream from your laptop to your TV?
There are many ways to do this and I learned another one for PC users. On the mac this is easily done if you have an Apple TV. It works very well. However if you have a PC you have to buy either a...
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The downside of having multiple devices in a business environment
Most employees only have one laptop in a business environment. Some are lucky enough to have two, but this isn’t always a benefit. More isn’t always better. For people who have an iPhone, iPad, Laptop...
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The upside of having multiple devices in a business environment
Yesterday I had an article about the downside of having multiple devices, and now the other side of the coin. The first obvious one is reliability. Even if one device has a problem, it is rare that...
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Rechargeable battery that lasts 400 years
Isn’t this an amazing technology? A rechargeable battery that lasts 400 years! I was a kid when I first learned about rechargeable batteries. I thought how cool they were to not waste a battery. As...
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