Feedback? You bet!

With Google heading in a new and possible exiting direction with its Google+ project and their new Me on the Web tool I was checking out some of the new features and stumbled upon the Google Profile. Not something I had ever seen before (even though it supposedly […]

IBM Champions

Most people reading this might already have heard it but earlier this week Ed Brill announced the 2011 IBM Champions list and much  to my surprise my name is on it. Knowing the names on that list I can only feel very humble to be in their presence. […]

Twitter DM's not private…. Weiner watch out!

Applications can use the Twitter API  to get you to grant them access to your twitter account without having to share your username and password. You would expect your DM’s to be excluded though by default from the information (eg. Tweets, Favs, Lists, etc) that applications can than […]

VMWare's Mother's day offer

Did you get it? No? Well than you missed something. Two weeks ago I received two messages in the mail from VMWare with a Mother’s day offer: The first one addressed me, telling me how VMWare would save me time that I could than spent on finding my […]

We all make mistakes

Last Friday I was working at a customer where I had to Copy & Paste some person document’s into a secondary address book. Every time I attempted to do it the process would hang and simply wouldn’t stop unless I manually broke it off (CTRL + BREAK). Now […]

Nemo!

I’ve installed my fare share of servers over the years. It’s not my main task but if it comes up I’ll do it. The one thing I’ve always really liked about setting up servers is that you usually also get the chance to make up it’s name. Ok, […]

Loving Lotus Notes!

Why is it that negative spin always seem to stick longer then positive feedback? Lotus Notes has been here for over 20 years and it’s still going strong! How often do you hear of Lotus environments being hacked? Or applications rendered completely useless after an upgrade?? Lotus notes […]

What's in a name

I hate those flaky terminologies that are used to describe certain ICT phenomena’s without actually defining them. Everyone is talking about it but nobody really knows what it entails. The term ‘Web 2.0’ is a good example of that. Ask anyone and they will either come up with […]

My fifth limb

This week it became painfully clear how much I am attached addicted to my laptop. I attended a training course and as it was all theoretical I didn’t have to bring my laptop. In fact they told us not to bring one as the classroom wasn’t closed off […]

Infobesity

Today on the news: the newest risk to our youths health; Infobesity How do they come up with it. Ok, it’s not even a new term but Infobesity means as much as constantly consuming enormous amounts of non-information. Through tv, pda’s, text messaging, Twitter, blog’s and multiple social […]