29 Jan 2012
Quick weekend post. Two applications that I find indispensable for doing presentations from my mac: Caffeine. Tiny (and free) program that sits in your menu bar to quickly let you prevent your computer from going to sleep or dimming the screen. Camouflage. Another tiny program that sits in your menu bar to quickly hide all the icons on […]
23 Dec 2011
Let’s start with a riddle. Imagine that you are responsible for your company’s telephone infrastructure and are tasked with buying a whole new system. You’re given just one criteria on which to evaluate your choices, cost. What sort of telephone system do you buy? I’ll get to the answer in a second (this is called “building […]
16 Sep 2011
On the surface, a simple question like “what’s the thinnest smartphone?” is, well, simple. Turns out, it needed a court to decide the answer. I’m frustrated by how things are oversimplified these days. There seems to be no time for actual thinking in our daily activities — we just run at full speed to mindlessly […]
27 Jan 2011
This week, TIBCO released their updated tibbr. There are competitors, including Chatter, who’ve been at it much longer. None however have the “enterprise” access or perspective that TIBCO have. There’s plenty of information out there on tibbr, so rather than add to the noise, I’ll just link to it. In this YouTube Vivek Ranadive (CEO/Founder) stays tightly on […]
12 Sep 2010
I’ve let myself down a little… being so busy, I’ve not had as much time to write as I’d like. I can’t believe I’ve already started my new gig (having tons of fun), and am about to leave on an 11 day holiday to Europe. I thought I’d have so much time to write about […]
