An iPad to Bring Them All Together
May 20, 2010 – 9:34 pm | No Comment

The world has been buzzing since the release of Apple’s latest creation, the iPad. I scoffed and pitied them all for fueling Apple’s marketing machine. That is, until I started to take a closer look …

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Solved. . . The end of an iSCSI irritation
June 10, 2009 – 7:11 pm | 4 Comments
Solved. . . The end of an iSCSI irritation

We had an issue with our SAN and a couple of Windows servers.  When these servers were rebooted from a script, we would lose the network shares that were homed on the SAN volume.  The volumes (drives) were mounted correctly; it …

Testing CellSpin – A Mobile Blogging Platform
May 17, 2009 – 5:59 pm | No Comment
Testing CellSpin – A Mobile Blogging Platform

Update:  When I got back to a computer and checked the post, I found that it looked fine. The application worked just as it stated. But I just had to fix some of the typos, …

Microsoft and Apple Mixing It Up A Bit…About time.
May 16, 2009 – 2:56 pm | One Comment

Microsoft verses Apple in battle for consumers all mighty dollars…and it’s about time.
Extreme views attract extreme people, and dumb things get said and done.  I live and work on the Microsoft side of the world, …

Finding what can be found
May 15, 2009 – 8:50 pm | No Comment
Finding what can be found

Is all information cataloged at this point?  How many major search providers are left and do they have all the information of the world cataloged?  I have no clue, but another search engine is hitting …

How close are you to having everything online?
April 14, 2009 – 7:44 pm | No Comment
How close are you to having everything online?

I sleep well at night knowing that virtually all of my personal information is stored online.  Really, the only personal data that is not permanently stored online are my photo albums and my music collection.  However, these files are backed …

Is free software profitable in the long run?
October 16, 2008 – 5:10 am | 5 Comments
Is free software profitable in the long run?

Quicken reduced the cost of Quicken Online to free. This is great for consumers, but I have to ask myself why Intuit would make such a move. What does Intuit see that would cause them to …