I have to confess: I don’t read every e-mail I receive. At work, I literally receive scores of messages a day. “Hundreds” is not unprecedented for me, and I know there are folks who get that regularly. Some of the e-mails are ignored because they are clearly ignorable–automated replies to ticket generation (which I retain [...]

Today, there were several announcements on the cloud computing front. Google announced the long-rumored Google Drive. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s SkyDrive announced expansions to its service with Mac and Widnows clients. This joins services such as Dropbox in enabling users to store files “in the cloud.” All these products work roughly the same way: users can upload [...]

I wanted to get everyone’s opinion of QR Codes. I’ve been tumbling this in my head for the last week or two, and wanted to try to get some more feedback. A QR Code is a “two dimensional” barcode. While they have other uses, the most popular is to easily redirect someone to a web [...]

I know many of you are “Vox Refugees,” as the folder in my RSS reader is titled. What started as a great blogging site in 2006 slowly died from neglect, until the plug was ultimately pulled last year. A few months prior, I wrote Vox support, to ask if it was still being maintained. I [...]

Author Neil Gaiman on piracy and its impacts on his sales. Basically: it’s just lending books, and a net gain for him. Via Boing Boing.

I’ve been on a lot of outage calls lately. One ran literally overnight. In fact, I’m on one right now. It’s part of having a job in IT. Both my wife and I are on-call 24×7, and have taken calls at various times. We’ve gotten to where we can sleep through each other’s pager (most [...]

You may have heard that Gawker Media has a password file hacked. Users who created accounts may have had their passwords exposed. Slate has a widget for checking if your account was impacted. This includes: Lifehacker io9 Gizmodo …and a few others (check my first link for a full list–these are sites I’ve been known [...]

I dare say many of the folks reading my blog are what I have termed in my RSS reader as “Vox Refugees.” We all received notice about a month ago that Six Apart decided to discontinue their Vox service. Yesterday, September 30, was its final day. When it came out in 2006, I think Vox [...]