Author Archives: joransen
Adopting SOA
A few years ago I heard Dawn Meyerriecks talk about SOA and how to help get it started and funded. The idea was around building out infrastructure and getting buy-in. The quote that still sticks with me: “Plumbing for plumbing’s … Continue reading
Welcome to 703
This one is for Steve Hayman. Just so he knows when he is my territory. I could also make it “DCA” since he is most likely to enter via that route. 571 would also have been an option (as an … Continue reading
Trying a Moleskine
I’ve seen people use them, read about them, and now I’m going to try one. I like to take notes on paper in meetings because most computer use in the meetings I’m in is people doing other things (not being … Continue reading
Puzzled by phone number format at RapidSSL
I was taking a break from my normal work to spend what I thought would be 15 minutes to enable SSL on a server. Should have been straight forward, I’ve done this before. The technical part can be seen in … Continue reading
Bush’s Surveillance Act | The Onion
Bush’s Surveillance Act | The Onion: “American citizens cannot be spied on, with the exception of all of them” I’m all for protecting our country and those in it (citizens and visitors). My concern is the use of fear as … Continue reading
Information freedom imprisons people?
Danah Boyd has a nice piece on the mass sharing of the “social graph” at just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. One section: The odd thing about forced exposure is that it creates a scenario where everyone is … Continue reading
I want my “Music Video Playlist”
I updated my Apple TV to “Take Two.” The positive surprise was the “AirTunes” feature so I can push music to my TV…and you can even have it played in sync with the computer (multiple speakers). I may need to … Continue reading
Lawsuit happy.
SiliconValley.com – First Edition Newsletter: “Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang signaled to Microsoft Wednesday that he is in no hurry to accept its $44.6 billion takeover offer. His message came as the company was sued by several shareholders criticizing Yang … Continue reading
HTC Magnum – is it so hard to understand?
I watched the video talked about in this article… HTC Magnum rumours rife following giant phone gag | Reg Hardware: “A group of self-confessed pranksters have admitted that their mock-up of a monster HTC tablet, dubbed the Magnum, doesn’t signal … Continue reading
Thinking about Air
I keep thinking about the MacBook Air. It meets just about every one of my criteria. Just a little light on performance (memory capacity being the one that comes most to mind), but the tradeoffs made are very reasonable to … Continue reading