Let’s see, in Cuba you can’t buy a computer because the government is afraid you’ll use it in subversive ways, but in the US, according to Senator Hollings, et al., you will only be allowed to buy the computers that have the technology to make sure you don’t do something subversive like infringe copyrights. Which one is the free democracy again?
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I just spent a good chunk of my morning filling out insurance forms, aren’t I lucky? Since we’re probably switching health insurance carriers here at work, everyone got to fill out applications and brief medical histories for the new place. Let’s see I woke up this morning to freezing rain and ice, went through that…
In connection with the conversation we had yesterday, I sent this article that was linked in today’s Lockergnome to the head of our Communications Department. What do you think, is the upcoming version of Office turning off images and HTML by default combined with the “spam wars” going to kill email as a marketing tool?…
So did your office recognize Systems Administrator Appreciation Day? Unfortunately, some of our own IS folks didn’t know it was today until our network admin wished them a happy sysadmin day first thing this morning. Later, when I brought in donuts, he was happy to see that someone else remembered. 🙂 We did manage to…
I setup a Flickr account, not so much because I’m going to change how I display my traveling photos, but because I needed someplace to store pictures that go along with my posts to the 2guys2cities blog. My question is, when I use Flickr to post to a blog, is there any way to save…
Over lunch today, which is the usual slice of time I take for podcast listening, I couldn’t help but perk my ears up to a couple of mentions about libraries and technology. First, the obvious one, Chuck Tomasi’s interview with the director of the Appleton Public Library, Terry Dawson. Terry and Chuck discussed Appleton’s growing…