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YouTube Fridays: Neil Young’s JavaOne jam session

I was originally scheduled to attend JavaOne this year, but had to back out due to a family emergency (which will also keep me...

Barack Obama is the iPhone of politicians

I don’t know why it took me so long to make the connection. Even for a political figure, Barack Obama generates an extraordinary level...

Three ways to boost your career from reading CIO Canada

This blog will be a forum for Dave Carey, myself and readers to exchange ideas about better IT management, and I thought we could...

YouTube Fridays: IT managers star in summer blockbuster!

Okay, maybe blockbuster is stretching it a little. This is an animated trailer for a live-action short film that's probably coming to a YouTube...

SP3 rollout snarled by Windows XP change

Gregg Keizer of Computerworld U.S. filed this report:Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it delayed the rollout of WindowsXP Service Pack 3 (SP3) because changes to...

A simple way to improve IT usability: the flanker test

Every time I get my eyes checked I’m just waiting for bad news. It doesn’t help that every time I visit the optometrist, they...

Fifteen years of the Web, and Facebook 15 years from now

Without Tim Berners-Lee, we might all be slaves to Gopher by now. You could probably celebrate an online anniversary of some kind every day,...

Windows XP SP3 suffers delay

From IDG News Service:  Microsoft has delayed the release of a third service pack forWindows XP, blaming a “compatibility issue” between the software and aretail-chain-management...

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