Desirable Traits in a CIO. Every now and then, I think it would be great to be a CIO, in part because the title seems so cool. As a CIO, you get invited to great conferences for “C level” executives. And you get a great magazine – CIO magazine, one of my favorite magazines Speaking… Continue reading Desirable Traits in a CIO

Iraq turns to Iran for Infrastructure The recent bevy of deals between Iraq and Iran have one common theme: they provide Iraq with the critical infrastructure they need to revive their economy. Deals for oil processing, petrol (which Iraq needs to import), electricity (which is below pre-war levels and half pre gulf war 1 levels),… Continue reading Iraq turns to Iran for Infrastructure

Hey Mary!  Happy Birthday!

OneNote 12 – Working as a team with shared notebooks. A lot of people view OneNote as a single-user application designed for personal notes. This is a pretty narrow view of an application we have much grander ambitions for. Of course it is not as narrow as the “it only works on TabletPC” myth  (grr),… Continue reading OneNote 12 – Working as a team with shared notebooks

Dan Chudnov “more librarians need to be coders”. I’ve been meaning to link to some of Dan Chudnov’s essays for a while now. He’s a librarian programmer, or a programmer with an MLIS, who works on some pretty interesting tools. Unlike many other people who can codeswitch between high-tech and low-tech aspects of the profession,… Continue reading Dan Chudnov “more librarians need to be coders”

Falling Behind Why can't we get this (now available in the UK): For £24 a month customers of broadband provider Be are being offered a download speed of up to 24 megabits, three times that available from closest rivals UK Online, Bulldog and Homechoice and 12 times that on offer from BT and Wannadoo. The… Continue reading Falling Behind

Civil War in Iraq? Will Iraq move towards civil war if the US withdraws. Probably not. This would require a radical reversal in 5th generation global guerrilla operations (states vs. autonomous fragmented non-state forces as opposed to 4th generation states vs. non-state proxies or Maoist revolutionary movements) from its current equilibrium point back towards conventional… Continue reading Civil War in Iraq?

Rick gives advice to job seekers. Rick Segal answers the question “what's the best way to get hired?” “Go code something.” Good advice. Have you coded something cool lately?  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Britain set to run out of fuel warns CBI boss. BUSINESSES could be forced to close down and lay off workers this winter because the country's energy reserves are so low, the director-general of the CBI warned yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Tutorial: Ubuntu for servers (26 Sep 2005). Ubuntu is primarily known as one of the most popular desktop distributions. But you can also use it for servers! This guide shows how to set up a web, mail, and ftp server with Ubuntu 5.4 “The Hoary Hedgehog” and demonstrates the details with the help of 21… Continue reading Tutorial: Ubuntu for servers (26 Sep 2005)