In preparation for being in DC next week, I’ve been reading some history. Namely, I’ve been reading Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. I found the premise interesting, in that the telegraph really changed the dynamics between the commander in chief, and his generals. Rather than having…
Despite the fact that I haven’t even been an SCT for more than 6 months, I was informed today that I will need to re-certify on the new version of iBlaze, 2.9, before August 1 to remain an SCT in good standing. I’ll have to sign up for an online review session, pay my $200…
Lots of upgrading since last night. First it was the new version of Twhirl, 0.8 with the additional Friendfeed support. On my Vista desktop last night it had some stability issues after I first installed it and tried connecting to Twitter and Friendfeed at the same time. It crashed a couple of times on me,…
Today at a local ILTA event, I saw a presentation about a company called Index Engines. They built enterprise search appliances, and one of their big sales pitches to the legal industry is that they can index from tape backups. This is somewhat huge. As it stands now, to do electronic discovery on data that…
With the weather turning quite Spring-like this week, we went for a change of pace. Instead of going to the gym, we just walked right on by it with the cameras and did a little photowalking around campus. It was a good idea, I felt like I got some exercise, got the stress relief benefits…
I’ve been writing about technology on this blog for a long time. The first posts here date back to Oct. 2001. and while I don’t claim they are very good, I will claim to have been around the tech blogosphere for a very long time relatively speaking. Within the last year, however, as I’ve been…
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