I have been saving this brittle, yellow, tractor feed sheet of paper for a very long time. It was printed with a dot matrix printer back when dot matrix ruled the land. I saved it because it was a shining example of the writing quality we used to have during the time of RelayNet, FidoNet and Echomail. I’m posting it now so it might one day be picked up by the Internet Archive project and … The ST506 TaleRead more
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The Problem With Thumb Drives
I’m writing this while formatting floppies. No, this isn’t something I wrote in the 80s and reposted. It’s January and time to put a bunch of stuff which has been accumulating in my office up for sale. Most will probably end up on eBay. The stuff I don’t want to ship will either go straight to recycling or I will have to finally take a look at Craig’s List. I imagine some of the really … The Problem With Thumb DrivesRead more
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Labor Day and Minimum Wage
It should come as no surprise discussion about the minimum wage is heating up. Add in the fact an election is just around the corner and you find no shortage of politicians trying to talk out of both sides of their mouths to get your vote. There can be only one viewpoint when it comes to the massively widening gap between executive pay and the average employee. It’s an epidemic which dwarfs Ebola and most … Labor Day and Minimum WageRead more
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What if Microsoft Made Refrigerators?
This question came up today. Actually it came up a while back and I finally looked at the message today. What if Microsoft made refrigerators? The question is an apt one for business systems which is why so few MBAs think to ask it. If Microsoft made refrigerators they would periodically require a manual reboot, everything in them would spoil and you would just accept that. Well, you would accept it until you found out … What if Microsoft Made Refrigerators?Read more
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First Aereo – Now Google
In an absolutely stunning move the Supreme Court might have justified its existence with the Aereo ruling. Most citizens had lost hope and faith in the institution with their ruling allowing corporations to patent and extract license fees for genes existing naturally in humans in plants. They single handedly allowed corporate greed to eliminate public variety seed placing in jepordy the world food supply as population quickly approaches 9 billion. And let’s not forget the … First Aereo – Now GoogleRead more