Monthly Archives: February 2010
Business of Happiness
I just finished reading The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis. I recommend it! Check out the website to get some background on the author and book. To summarize, Ted grew up in Brooklyn the son of immigrant parents. Through … Continue reading
Staying Human: Google is great, until it isn’t
We blog about Google a lot and up until now it’s all been positive. We’ve run across a problem we can’t fix and it revolves around the way Google handles their products. Google is successful because so much of what … Continue reading
The cure for software upgrades?
A software upgrade can be a major disruption to a business. We’ve listed the revisions to Microsoft’s core businesss products going back to 1995. Windows Servers Office Exchange (email) SQL (database) Windows 95 Windows NT (1993) Office 95 Exchange 5.5 SQL … Continue reading
Multitasking is a myth
Courtesy of @rands on Twitter: In a previous blog post we summed up multitasking as: Multitasking is the ability to shift between tasks very quickly. Also known as timeslicing, these transitions happen so quickly it appears like multitasking. However, each time … Continue reading
VMware View with PCoIP – Is this the cloud?
VMware View is a product that provides desktop performance levels to remote desktop clients. VMware View with PCoIP allows companies to deploy inexpensive, power efficient and virtually unbreakable PC’s called thin clients to users while retaining a full dekstop experience with … Continue reading
The Internet has a Time Machine
The Wayback Machine at www.archive.org has been keeping a record of web sites on the Internet for years. Go there and check out your favorite site. It can be quite interesting to view a site as it evolved over time. … Continue reading
Will’s Wisdom
Saw this video over on www.smbitpros.com It’s worth reposting. Will Smith has a great attitude on life.