Food poisoning is one of those illnesses you never forget. Humans could have a million colds over their lifetime and at best will remember one. Food poisoning though, that shivering under a pile of blankets, spewing from both ends 24-48 hours is a trauma the brain doesn’t let go. Ordinarily I try to keep the medical discussions a little higher policy/society type level. Mostly I speak of the medical device industry that I’ve been working … Second Worst Case of Food Poisoning EverRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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Speeding Up Libre Office 6
I’ll never understand what goes through the minds of those who plan LibreOffice. I guess they wish to size it to run on an idiot phone instead of a real computer. Maybe they are chasing the Raspberry Pi market trying to make everything work in under 2Gig of RAM. They are really killing the desktop market doing that. Featured image by Free-Photos from Pixabay Big Files = Big Problems This weekend I started applying the … Speeding Up Libre Office 6Read more
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How Much Liability Insurance?
This question has been rattling around in the back of my mind given the qt-interest on and off-list conversations I’ve been having about QML and “lone wolf” development of idiot phone apps. How much liability insurance are you carrying? The courts are letting plaintiffs gather in bulk now and companies have started pointing the finger at software providers. You might remember Equifax tried to finger Struts only to later admit they had the patch for … How Much Liability Insurance?Read more
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SeaTools
Some months ago I was working at a client in Chicago and needed an external hard drive to transfer some files. There was a Staples I could walk to over my lunch hour and they didn’t have a bad price on a USB 3.0 6TB Seagate drive. When I first got the thing it was fantastic! Hooked to the back of an IBM ThinkCentre, it seemed faster than the internal hard drive. For a while … SeaToolsRead more
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The 142 Biggest Product Failures of All Time
I don’t care if I’m promoting a site which pushes ads at you . . . this time. I haven’t even made it to the end of the list, but I had to create this post. You have to take a few minutes out of your day and read this post. Did you know Microsoft once tried to market a “smart watch?” I didn’t. Number 35 on the list really shocked me. Not only did … The 142 Biggest Product Failures of All TimeRead more