Tuesday, June 25, 2002

THE KEY WORDS ARE "VALUE EXCELLENCE" I came to the conclusion that at some point our civilization will either value excellence in information technology, or will die. We're building so many systems on the little ones and zeroes, but yet our universities turn out crappy developers with no ladder to climb, few real heroes to look up to, no bonafide life saving techie role models. [Scripting News] 4:28:26 PM     Comments[]

AN INTERESTING CONCEPT that could cut consultants, integrators and small network administrators out of the loop. The notion that I.T. design and implementation can be done by everybody is growing. Some suppliers seem to be saying, "ever had an erector set or Tinker Toys? You can do this, too!" IBM aims wireless at smaller businesses. ThinkPad-based network offerings speed time to productivity [InfoWorld: Top News] 3:37:19 PM     Comments[]

DOES PASSPORT GIVE WAY TO PALLADIUM? WOW. When I wrote tomorrow's TechCentralStation column, I hadn't heard about this. But it's pretty close to what I warn against. [InstaPundit] 3:03:03 PM     Comments[]

SECOND HALF RECOVERY LOOKS DOUBTFUL FedEx's net doubled for its fiscal fourth quarter, recovering from charges a year earlier. But the shipping company issued a first-quarter forecast that trailed analysts' expectations. [Wall Street Journal] 2:40:33 PM     Comments[]

BE/APPLE CROWD STEERING PALM Be Inc. completes takeover of Palm. NeXT-style coup [The Register] 2:32:46 PM     Comments[]

Malcolm Forbes. "There is never enough time, unless you're serving it." [Quotes of the Day] 8:22:43 AM     Comments[]

MAYBE I'VE BEEN WRONG ABOUT THE 'NEW' HP In college HP was king of the hill when it came to well-designed products with a look and feel that made you certain they stood for quality. Their calculators and other instrumentation products continued that tradition for many years. Today an HP -12C financial calculator is still a marvel of effective engineering. Yesterday's announcement followed by this news shows that HP may not have been distracted by the Compaq merger and the new CEO. HP to overhaul consumer printer line. Hewlett-Packard, which relies heavily on profits derived from its printer business, is expected to announce Tuesday that it is revamping its entire line of consumer printers. [CNET News.com] 7:57:05 AM     Comments[]

DOES HE KNOW WHERE HIS OFF-SITE BACKUP IS? Do You Know Where His Keys Are?. One man's attempt to learn how to use a Web server turned into a giant, obsessive Web project: He has documented and photographed the entire contents of his house for all the Web's surfers to see. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 7:39:36 AM     Comments[]

NECESSARY TOOLS In the trenches of techno-rebellion. Although technologies have arisen to thwart programs piggybacking on free software, most consumers fail to protect themselves. [CNET News.com] 7:35:27 AM     Comments[]

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