MINIX and Microkernels
In the mid 1980's I was working on a port of the MINIX operating system, which is a very light implementation of Unix that can run on very small unp... Read story
Curt Finch
Using the Web to Save Money
Fatwallet.com has a viral marketing system where you can get cash back from referring people to the deals on th... Read story
HUD Specs - Magic Glasses For Runners...
Have you ever been jogging and you wondered "What is my heartrate right now and how fast am I going?" The Europeans have the answer. Read story
Bluetooth Software Enables New Capabilities
Your phone has bluetooth. Your computer probably does too. What should this enable you to do? Investigating various software packages has led me... Read story
Using "Hash Tags" In Twitter
I first heard about Twitter hash tags from Raven, who came up with a Read story
How To Create Pareto Charts with Excel
I think I ran across this link from Raven the Maven's site . She has the best project management blog arou... Read story
Hot Pink Keyboard For Blondes
I think I might just need one of these , a bright Barbi-pink keyboard
Continuous Non-Invasive Glucose Monitors
The Glucowatch is now discontinued. It provided a method to monitor blood sug... Read story
Wireless Glucose & Heart Monitors
What if you had a graph of your blood sugar level, blood oxygen level, heart rate, and location minute by minute for the last month or so? Do you think t... Read story
Voice Entries for Google Calendar - How To
Jott converts speech to text for about $4/month. Google Calendar is a great on... Read story
Pirates On The iPhone... and more
Apparently, the Apple iPhone store is not immune from piracy . 2... Read story
Automated Gay Bashing Through Amazon
This hacker employed an interesting technique to get many gay and lesbian books banned on Amazon. It is a technique that could also be used to cause... Read story
IT Projects Still In Big Trouble?
A new report by the Center for Business Practices (CBP) that resource management issues (figuring out which people are available to put on which projects)... Read story
Eyeglasses With a Heads Up Display?
I want a pair of these. Science fiction books (e.g. Accelerando , Read story
Twitter is over capacity.
Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again. I'm seeing this alot lately. Sometimes popularit... Read story
GoodReads.com Social Networking Bookclub
So If you've ever spent time in a bookclub, you'll like goodreads . You can hook up with old friends and you may find, ... Read story
What You Need Now Is Bluetooth Sunglasses...
Don't you? Doesn't everyone? Sure you do. Imagine if you could listen to your music constantly and when the phone rings the music automatically ... Read story
Bluetooth Headset for Your Convertible
I live in Austin, TX which means that it's convertible weather all the time except in the middle of the day in the summer, when it's about 3000 degrees an... Read story
You Really Need a Bluetooth Wristwatch
Don't you? Sure you do. See my wife thinks watches are sexy on men, and that I should get one. Although I'm not sure this item would meet her cr... Read story
The Problem With Wikis
Is the same problem you will have with any other data storage. You lack a librarian. My company is 12 years old. We have a fileserver whe... Read story
You have MSProject, But Can You Use It?
Everyone has Microsoft Project, but few can get it configured to the point where they can actually deliver a project on time. This Read story
Using iChat
A friend of mine wanted to put together a present for her 90 year old father, an iChat 3 way video conference between her, her brother and her father. Sh... Read story
China's 3rd Manned Spaceflight
When I was a kid I watched men land on the moon. Like every kid I wanted to be an astronaut. Now China is getting in on the act. After a Read story
Is Your MSProject File Crummy?
Microsoft Project can confuse people. What are the best practices around how long tasks should be, who should be assigned to what, and how a gantt chart ... Read story
Finally, a Useful Bluetooth Headset
I'd tried bluetooth headsets and earbuds over the years, always with disappointing results. Nobody could hear me, it was hard to connect it to my ph... Read story
Graphics Tablets for Better Design
Graphics tablets are computer input devices which let you to hand-draw images and graphics, s... Read story
IBM's CEO speaks at Council on Foreign Relations
The smart planet is coming, where every device is smart and connected to all the other ones. Palmisan... Read story
New Research on Engineering Projects
30% of project managers have seen a cutback in investment as a result of the current ec... Read story
Transportation Technology Makes Superbowl Boring
When my dad was a kid there were no interstates. When I was a kid, flights and long distance calls were expensive. Partly as a result of technology that... Read story
7 Steps to Keeping your IT job...
In difficult times, we all need to pay attention to a few things to keep our jobs, according to Read story
Bread, Wine, Beer and Now Eternal Life
This weekend I was baking bread and experimenting with bread starters, some of which can Read story
Internet Radio is coming on strong.
One of my favorites is Business Radio , where they have new c... Read story
web2.0 tv
A new site has hundreds of videos, ( including one of me ), with interviews of lots of tech lu... Read story
IBM is all over the iPhone
10 million iPhone users are a fertile source of research subjects for IBM. IB... Read story
100 years of stock crashes.
The market went up from 1920-1929, rambled until 1941, up until 19... Read story
Detecting Earthquakes with your laptop?
IF YOU drop your laptop computer, a chip built into it will sense the acceleration and protect the delicate moving parts of its hard disk before it hits t... Read story
CMU Invents the Emoticon ;-)
I'm considering sending my 17 year old to Read story
Abraham Lincoln - TeamBuilder
Last night I completed Team of Rivals , Doris Goodwin's bio... Read story
Selling to the Feds - DCAA and Technology
DCAA — What is it and how can you comply?
What is DCAA? The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), under the authority,
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When IT Projects Go Bad...
One reason that IT projects fail sometimes is due to apathy. It's important to remind your people why their work matters. ... Read story
