Month: October 2003

How to Make Your Telecommute Work. Working from home is the future, and I am among its staunchest advocates. I not only report on this trend, I live it. By Lisa Belkin. [New York Times: Technology]

Back from Florida.  Had a great time!

Off to visit friends and family in Florida for the weekend!

Slugging Broadband out of the Central Office. US Wireless Online starts serving a big chunk of Louisville, Kentucky: The broadband wireless provider is offering 256 to 384 Kbps upload and 2 Mpbs download for $40 per month residential (including a modem rental of $10/month), and $90 per month or higher for business service. They expect… Continue reading Slugging Broadband out of the Central Office

My note to Susan. I ran into an old colleague (old as in we worked together on Guts in 1990, so don't tell me you've been online a long time, okay?). Susan is a very talented web designer, and like most web designers, she's sort of in between the “oh boy, we need a website, let's… Continue reading My note to Susan

Free hot spots are a Purple Cow.. Free hot spots pay dividends – Computerworld “That means Wi-Fi service brings in more than $100,000 per year per outlet in return for an investment of about $8,000 per restaurant for wireless infrastructure, Wooley says.” [Seth's Blog]

Top 10 Tasks for New Exchange Administrators. KC Lemson (Program Manager in the Exchange server team at Microsoft) has written a useful list of the top ten tasks for Exchange admins, and it's now available on the Microsoft site. [MS Exchange Blog]

26Mbit DSL in Japan. If I lived in Japan, I could have have a 26Mbit DSL connection via Yahoo! BroadBand (Y! BB). Holy crap! What's it cost, you wonder? A bit less than my 1.5Mbit DSL or 3Mbit Cable in the US. Think about it this way. In the 20-30 seconds it normally takes to… Continue reading 26Mbit DSL in Japan

Iceland, Baby.  Not only is Iceland leading the way in adopting hydrogen power, but Reykjavik could very well become the first city in the world to hook up every home with broadband Net access. A conference next month will address the possibilities fiber access brings, as well as case studies from companies in a wide… Continue reading Iceland, Baby

Presenting to Win – A Must Read. Presentation guru Jerry Weissman's book, Presenting to Win, is required reading for everyone who does presentations. And, although it is not a book about PowerPoint, it is the best resource on effectively using PowerPoint that I've seen [DennisKennedy.blog]