So here’s the question I have for those of you who work in IT. Can you tell it’s the holiday season by the number of people who’ve asked you for advice on what PC to buy for their spouse, kids, themselves, etc.? I’ve had a couple of people ask, specifically about moving to a laptop…
They’ve made it easy to edit your photos right on the Flickr site, with one-click access to Picnik’s photo editing tools. I took it for a quick test drive tonight, and it works pretty well, I made a slight “auto-fix type of change to the photo below, and then saved it back. I was actually…
To whom it may concern, My subscription to the print edition of your magazine ran out about a year ago. I didn’t overlook it, I didn’t just forget to renew it, I made a conscious decision not to renew. (Mostly because just about everything I read in it, I had already seen online somewhere beforehand.)…
I have noticed a sharp uptick in the number of spam trackbacks that are getting through the Movable Type installation since I upgraded to version 4. Anyone else seen the same thing? The default comment spam settings seem to be working pretty well, but whereas I never got any trackback spams getting through, suddenly I’m…
Had an interesting thought the other day when talking to an attorney about e-discovery. We were talking about a situation that I’ve seen in the tech world all too often, where you have backup tapes, or other program data sitting around, with no way to actually read the data. Either the tapes are for a…
Apparently, 1 in 5 companies have already. I’m surprised it’s this high already, just one year after the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended, which made all relevant electronically stored information discoverable. I thought certainly, over time, we’d see some of this, especially with small companies that don’t have the IT resources to properly…