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Archives for March 2010

Sync2Mac8Ways

Backup or sync eight ways with ChronoSync. Bootable, mirrored, remote, scheduled, local, iOS storage, and automatic backups.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Composer loses life’s work when computer is stolen

File this one in the What Were They Thinking? file. Charles Memminger reports on Roslyn Catracchia’s big mistake.Thieves broke into her Aina Haina home the other day and stole, among other things, two computers and a backup drive containing her life’s work of of musical scores and musicals.Catracchia’s... Read More »

The Weather Is Bad, Call The President

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
While I was out late this morning someone left a phone message on our answering machine. The message proved yet again that the one man, one vote rule is totally wrong for the people, but good for politicians.My Skool’s Principle Is Stoopid The caller was male (a broad assumption that I made based... Read More »
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

PowerPoint is Evil

I’ve long held that Microsoft’s PowerPoint is evil. No, it’s not guilt by association. Yes, Microsoft is evil. PowerPoint makes it too easy to sell complex business plans which, during a PowerPoint presentation, look plausible and viable, but, in reality are not. In 2003 Edward Tufte... Read More »
Monday, March 8, 2010

Are Mac’s Cheaper To Manage Than PCs?

Tom Kaneshige in CIO:Macs in the enterprise aren’t just cheaper to manage—they’re a lot cheaper, according to a new survey…Sounds impressive, no? Who did the survey?(The) Enterprise Desktop Alliance is a group of software developers who’ve bandied together to deploy... Read More »
Thursday, March 4, 2010

In three years desktops will be irrelevant?

In another sign that change is coming to the world of computing, Google’s John Herlihy says:In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs.Herlihy is based in Europe and obviously has never seen a Japanese PC keyboard. But three... Read More »