“…are we now witnessing the death of IT innovation in business organizations? Have we seen the death of courage – the disappearance of the era in which people were willing to try something new with IT?” Read an article I wrote for clients of SAP, now being distributed to those who attended the SAP ’03 Business Forum. Read it here
Archives for 2003
Association related articles
I’ve been writing a bi-weekly column for executive directors of associations. The articles are being printed or are carried online by a number of North American Society of Association Executives. Permission is granted to any association to reprint these articles — contact me for details.
The first three include, “10 Things My Kids Think Are From the Olden Days“, “What’s happening to our careers?” and “What’s your tin can?”
No more spam!
Well, it took a while, but I have a spamless life. My setup is now rather unbelievable; mail to me goes to a domain forwarder, which sends it to a mailbox. A Linux system beside my desk grabs mail from that mailbox, and runs it through a spam filter, SpamAssassin. It then reforwards good mail out to another mailbox, where I then pick it up. The extra processing takes about a minute or two — but I’m suddenly in the situation in which only 1 or 2 spam messages a day sneak through, compared to hundreds a day before. I’ve got additional procedures in place to guard against “false positives”, so that I can make sure I’m not losing important messages. But it is truly wonderful!
My dad was a cool guy …..
Perfect Microwave Popcorn!
Eight years ago, I started telling my story about “perfect microwave popcorn” — a story as to how in the future we would have appliances linked to the ‘Net, that would use a built in bar-code to read the packaging and figure out how long to cook it for.
Looks like the future is here, according to this posting at Gizmodo.
Here’s an article in which I talk about popcorn from 2000. And the “popcorn” video clip from a keynote years back in still in my video library. Watch it in Quicktime, or Windows Media
“Daddy, do we have a firewall?”
So asked my 8-year-old when he woke up this morning.
“Yes”
“Good”
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