What we should remember tends to get overwritten by what we choose to remember. Memorial Day teaches us this each year. If you happen to be somewhere nice enough to be outside, then you are most likely enjoying it. Others, those trapped inside, are either chatting on-line or watching a series “all day marathon” or one of the seemingly countless WWII movies which every other station saves for just such holidays. I used to enjoy … What We Choose to Remember Isn’t Usually What We Should RememberRead more
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In IT, When Something is Going to Fail Spectacularly, We Call it a Cloud
Not all that long ago I put out ISBN-13 978-0-9770866-6-5 “The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture”. Some of you may remember that it won a 2008 Best Book Award from USA Book News. Apparently, not enough of you have read it because we are still seeing the standard criminal enterprises pushing “Cloud Computing” and now they are even trying to push it to “the masses” since they want the government to … In IT, When Something is Going to Fail Spectacularly, We Call it a CloudRead more
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The Doctors Without Limits
I must confess that I was deeply saddened to learn that David Tennant would not be continuing as “the doctor” in Doctor Who. As a young kid, I was never that into Doctor Who. When the new series came about, I must tell you that I was less than impressed with the actor they had playing “the Doctor”. I watched some of the episodes because the scripts were so well done, but I couldn’t call … The Doctors Without LimitsRead more
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Today Is the Day I Really Missed My Neighbor
I knew that if I didn’t manage to stay away from the family farm this day would finally come, but I had kind of put it out of my mind. Today it hit me. You would have to understand a little bit about the situation to understand why. I grew up on a family farm back when being a neighbor actually meant something. Some of my earliest memories are of when I finally became old … Today Is the Day I Really Missed My NeighborRead more
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Grade 8 Bolt Syndrome
No matter how long you work in this industry, you will never cease to be amazed at the Grade 8 Bolt Syndrome. What is this syndrome you ask? It is the ability of management to view everything a company spends money on as Grade 8 bolts. Every vendor’s product is considered the same, and therefore, non-unique. Then they try to shove all of these “similar” vendors into a vendor management system where the lowest bid … Grade 8 Bolt SyndromeRead more