“Daddy, do we have a firewall?”
November 5, 2003, BY JimCarrollSo asked my 8-year-old when he woke up this...
Win me!
November 4, 2003, BY JimCarrollMonster.Ca is running a new direct mail campaign with respect to a new resume management tool,...
Helping kids remember…
October 27, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'm off to do my keynote for the US Department of Defense tomorrow. I just found this little...
Feedback from my recent keynote for SAP America
October 27, 2003, BY JimCarrollFrom the VP of MarketingSAP could not have been happier with Jim Carroll's performance at our...
My weblog is one year old today
October 26, 2003, BY JimCarrollCheck the calendar over on the right, and have a peek at...
Thoughts on risk
October 24, 2003, BY JimCarrollIn Forbes: "Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is...
Election fraud in the future
October 22, 2003, BY JimCarrollI've just caught on to this story, which seems to have been going on for a while, in which it...
“That’s from the olden days, daddy!”
October 21, 2003, BY JimCarrollI've started writing a bi-weekly column for the online newsletter of an association of...
Department of Defense keynote
October 20, 2003, BY JimCarrollNext week, I'll provide the opening keynote for the US Department of Defense DoD Maintenance...
Apple’s sense of humor
October 16, 2003, BY JimCarrollApple announced iTunes for Windows today (everyone knows that) but you might not have seen...
A keynote for the American Federation of Teachers
October 16, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'll be keynoting the semi-annual American Federation of Teachers technology conference in...
Nomadic workers….
October 15, 2003, BY JimCarrollIt's Small Business Week. Here's an interesting stat spotted in the New Zealand Herald-Tribune...
The lengths they’ll go to…..
October 15, 2003, BY JimCarrollSpammers and net-con-artists try to get more sophisticated all the time. I received this...
Another broken music service
October 14, 2003, BY JimCarrollMuch fanfare announcing Puretracks today, a Canadian service that offers tunes for sale. I...
Another keynote for SAP — next week in Chicago
October 14, 2003, BY JimCarrollI received an e-mail from SAP this morning: "...thank you very much for the excellent...
Smart frogs ….
October 9, 2003, BY JimCarrollToday is my keynote at the SAP Business forum ... with the key message being that it is the...
Traditional offices — Boring as sin!
October 8, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'm quoted in the Edmonton Journal today in an article about an innovative, new, cooperative...
I’m digitizing my life …..
October 8, 2003, BY JimCarrollWell, at least all the photos. For the last two weeks, I've scanned about 2,000 old photos...
Go to a bar — and be tracked!
October 8, 2003, BY JimCarrollVancouver Sun article: "Vancouver bar patrons will soon have to produce identification and...
Unreal … another digital camera advancement
October 7, 2003, BY JimCarrollA company has come out with 4.8 gigabyte compact flash cards --- which you can use in a...
Ten years of change
October 7, 2003, BY JimCarrollTen years ago today, I was approached by a major publisher, asking if I could write a book...
Look up!
October 7, 2003, BY JimCarrollWent to get the morning paper just now .... and it's a crisp, cool October morning. The stars...
“The curse of the information age …..
October 6, 2003, BY JimCarroll.... is information." Great line from a novel I was reading last...
I’ll keynote the American Federation of Teachers conference
October 6, 2003, BY JimCarrollJust in ... I'll keynote their annual I/T conference this December, examining a number of...
“THIS IS A TREND AND COMPANY TO WATCH”
October 2, 2003, BY JimCarrollMy Vonage IP phone arrived today. I simply plugged it into my home network -- waited two...
HP ScanJet 5500c issue appears resolved
October 2, 2003, BY JimCarrollAnd based on this, I'd highly recommend the product to anyone.Early indications are that...
Easing the digital divide…
October 2, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'll be addressing the annual meeting of Computers for Schools Ontario tomorrow. This is an...
Hmmmm … does this mean something?
September 30, 2003, BY JimCarrollOn CNN, a brief clip that noted that today marks 666 days since the Enron collapse....
The American Federation of Teachers: The Future of Activism!
September 30, 2003, BY JimCarrollThe American Federation of Teachers had Jim do a session examining the future of labour...
What I Learned from Frogs in Texas
September 30, 2003, BY JimCarrollNotes the Chicago Tribune in an article about the global networked economy, on September 23,...
What’s next? … A Keynote at a chamber of commerce event
September 30, 2003, BY JimCarrollToday I address the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce. I'm offering up my "10 lessons learned from...
ScanJet 5500c
September 30, 2003, BY JimCarrollUpdate 2/10/03 : HP has fixed the problem -- see my posting on this matter.I received an...
21st century phone set to arrive….
September 29, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'm preparing for my telecom talk this week -- looking at the future of the industry. One of...
IP to outsell traditional PBX this year
September 24, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'm keynoting an event next week for a group of IT executives/CIO's of major companies, in...
Bull in a china shop….
September 24, 2003, BY JimCarrollRIAA sues 66-year old computer neophyte in error, withdraws suitThis is like watching an...
This week — Dynamic Meetings in Houston
September 24, 2003, BY JimCarrollI'll be the opening keynote speaker, this Friday for this event in Houston which is "an...
HP ScanJet 5500C problems continue
September 24, 2003, BY JimCarrollUpdate 2/10/03 : HP has fixed the problem -- see my posting on this matter. I'm up to 12,000...
Pay up — £0.00 — now or suffer the consequences
September 24, 2003, BY JimCarroll"I have never known this to happen before." So said a banking representative. Looks like...
Revisit the future by reading from the past…
September 22, 2003, BY JimCarrollIn his column of September 21, 2003, Dan Gilmour, Technology Columnist for the San Jose...
“We’ve gone from irrational exuberance to irrational pessimism”
September 20, 2003, BY JimCarroll"Jim Carroll suggests business owners should pop a few Advils, drink lots of water and get...
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