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We didn’t get back from the in-laws until late yesterday evening. With all the wedding stuff and all the various family members to visit with (They are a big, Southern family, there’s a bunch of them, and they all love to tell stories!!) I never even fired up the laptop all weekend. In fact, I…
Can Your ISP Stop File Swapping? Seems that Cisco is pushing some new technology to cable operators, including something that will help them identify different types of applications that users are running and how much bandwidth they are taking up. Now as a cable customer, I have to admit there are times when our connection…
Informative stuff here, a comparison of different desktop firewall offerings. Jevon in response to Scott Andrew’s suggestion that blog tools “talk” to blogtrack instead of it going out looking for changes: Scott: we would love if everyone would talk to us and tell us when they have updated, but until that happens; we talk to…
I swear my work life gets more like Office Space everyday. We’re planning to introduce, by the first of the year, a new policy which will govern the proper way for the organization to recognize staff birthdays, weddings, child births, family deaths, etc. Apparently, someone has been discussing and working on this policy since the…
Among the many news items coming out of Gnomedex last week, I saw an announcement of a public preview for a new Outlook-based RSS reader, Attensa. So being ever so curious, I downloaded it this weekend. It’s actually not bad. It supports importing OPML, is pretty customizable, allows you to publish items to your blog…