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Second Life Lines
I received an email recently in respect of the blog/article I wrote entitled “Second Life: The Campaign For Real Life“. It was from Chris Gayson and it read as follows: Robin, Disclosure- Until very recently I was an AD with Ogilvy- the advertising agency of record to IBM. While I did not work on the IBM account during...The Half-Forgotten Moment
The Half-Forgotten Moment (from the series: The Secret Life of Clouds) It’s not a trick of the light or of the camera. It’s a trick of the software, which makes it so easy to push part of an image into a blur and yet keep other parts in focus. And, to be honest, can clouds ever...How To Be Productive Using Spaces on the Mac
With the Leopard release, the Mac acquired a capability called Spaces; the ability to run and manage multiple desktops. Prior to that I was using a similar capability through a freeware program called Desktop Manager. There was an alternative called Virtue Desktops, but I preferred Desktop Manger. Spaces is better than both. The important point, with...The Apple Learning Curve
Few people would dispute that the iMac has a better user interface than Windows, and having used the iMac now for over a month I agree with the proposition. However, I have to be honest – there is a significant learning curve involved in switching from Windows to Apple. The iMac is different from Windows in...Zecurion, IT Security and the Internal Threat
In a briefing with Zecurion, a Russian software company that provides security technology, we spent a fair amount of time discussing the nature of the “Internal Threat” – the internal threat being the threat from your own staff, or possibly business partners that have access to your systems. It’s very difficult to pin down good...Forecasts for 2008: #2 The Server
The top ten IT companies include only three that are server hardware companies; IBM, HP and Dell. By value they are 6th 7th and 10th on “the leader board” (see the Goopple article). That gives you some indication of how times have changed. Go back to 1980 and the top IT vendors were all...SOA for Dummies – The Book
The “Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies book” we (Me, Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi & Marcia Kaufman) have been writing is now written and on its way to the printers. I’m awestruck to discover, from Carol Baroudi, that if you Google the book’s title you get over 30,000 hits. Why? Well for one reason; the book has...Mac Productivity Apps: Convenient Information
With this posting I’ll introduce a few more productivity apps. The theme covering this set of postings is about having certain types of information ready when it’s needed. The snapshot below depicts two of the apps I’m recommending; SketchBox and KeyCue. Information Clips – SketchBox I’ve been a fan of Stickies since I first got a...Microsoft v Apple: Whistling in the Dark
Fear and Loathing in Redmond “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they only unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we’ve become.” It’s an astute observation from Brooke Foss Wescott, which can be...Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong With Nunchuck
It sounds completely unlikely. In fact it would seem beyond the power of any normal human being to actually hit that little white cellulose ball with a nunchuck, never mind hitting it in a specific direction and never mind actually winning points against reasonably competent ping pong players. The alternative explanation has to be that someone...
