The Company I work for is giving serious consideration to moving the Company Intranet onto Wiki, specifically, TWiki, one of many Wiki Engines and Clones (software based on the Wiki Principles). In brief, a Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web… Continue reading

… the more I like about Perl The Company I am working for uses Python. As a programmer with over 20 years of experience in several languages, I can read Python without much difficulty. And, because I’m employed to do internal documentation, not develop code, it doesn’t really matter that I’m not a Python programmer.… Continue reading

I always knew that Marketing people were… different. But still… According to an article in The Wall Street Journal (Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004), Jeremy Burton doesn’t like email. Mr. Burton is the V. P. of Marketing at Veritas Software Corp. (a company that makes computer backup software fergoshsakes!) . OK, so it’s a bit weird… Continue reading

Apparently the Gartner research firm has recently noticed that an iPod is actually a fully functional hard drive…. and they’re spreading paranoia. News Story by Laura Rohde JULY 06, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) – The iPod may be popular, but it also poses such a major security risk for businesses that enterprises should seriously consider… Continue reading

This morning at The Job, the mail server (MS Exchange; blech) informed me that my password had expired. Ugh. It’s been warning me about this for a while; I’ve had no desire to do anything about this situation until it became an issue.. After several futile attempts to set a new password, each of which… Continue reading

I recently left a mailing list I had only very recently subscribed to. It’s a very new list (also very “young”). I was personally invited to join. The topic seemed like fun when presented. But I didn’t like the way the owners were controlling the list — not because they are too harsh, but because,… Continue reading

In 1994, I was introduced to the Web, via a new application called NCSA Mosaic. The Web seemed like an interesting toy and I put up a personal home page soon thereafter. I had to ask, however, what it was really “good for”? Time passed; I was amused when I saw http://www.shell.com at the gas… Continue reading

I read Richard Gabriel’s The Rise of “Worse is Better” several years ago on the recommendation of my then-manager. He recommended a number of interesting essays, many of which I have collected and saved. I don’t keep a pointer to “Worse is Better”. I didn’t like the essay when I read it; from the title… Continue reading