News and stuff

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Blogger Stats has been unleashed on the world. Currently only available for BlogSpot Plus users, but they hope to have it available to others soon. I’d be interested to see how it works out for anyone using it!

Sun announced this week that they are going to roll out a Linux desktop system. It seems to be a somewhat scaled back version of a PC though, as they even admit in the article, and are only targeting places like call centers where you don’t need the full functionality of a PC. Interesting, I’m not sure that it’ll work, but it’s interesting. I have doubts because it’s going to require a different set of skills to use than regular PC skills, making your search for call-center employees a little more complicated, and your training costs a little bit higher. I guess we’ll see. (link lifted from Steve Pilgrim)

Daypop’s site says it’s still out of service, but I’m getting stuff from the Top 40 XML feed. It must be getting close to being operational again, yay!

Microsoft is rolling out it’s own home networking stuff. They’ve got a (deserved) bad reputation on security but having 802.11b with 128-bit WEP set on by default is about the most you could expect from home wireless, isn’t it? It’s not 100% secure, I realize, but there aren’t really any wireless networks that are. It’s nice to see them make the security of the network the priority of a new product rollout for a change though! 🙂

Lastly, Josh’s comment about his blog loading time, and Scoble’s efforts at a site that is more standards based has me thinking of changing a few things around here, but I simply don’t have the time to do that right now. So if the site loads slowly for you, or you just hate the tables, grab a free news aggregator and read the blog from the XML feed. OK? I’ll let you know when I have time to play around with the layout.

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • What’s this?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    A technology company engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The installation for their software makes sure that their peripheral will only operate with said software and disable it’s ability to communicate with the competitor’s software. Why that no good lousy, Bill.. What’s that? Oh it’s Apple. Nevermind…. Yes that was sarcasm, personally, I don’t use iTunes or…

  • Empathy as a Trainer

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    Make sure you are exercising those empathy muscles. They’ll help you understand where everyone is trying to go, and they’ll help you care enough to want to help them get there. That’s learning and development in a nutshell to me.

  • Sitehound

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Matthew from the company that makes Mailwasher sent me an email to let me know about their new product, an IE toolbar called Sitehound: The SiteHound toolbar is your first line of defense against internet threats including phishing, scams, spyware, adware, security risks and viruses from rogue websites. SiteHound is free to use, or you…

  • Goofy job search..

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    From the “things you shouldn’t really have to tell people, but, obviously, you do” department (From both sides of the job searching fence): If you’re going to put a help wanted ad in the newspaper that asks people to go to your website to apply for this position, make sure the website has been updated,…

  • Linked – Investing in middle managers pays off—literally

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Great managers are developed by great managers. If you look around your workplace and don’t see great management, senior leaders might want to look at learning how to be great managers and leading by example. If your workplace, like many others, would be better off with far fewer middle managers, it’s likely because there is too much bad management happening. So much, in fact, that it might be better to not have middle managers at all.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)