Category: Thoughts
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RTFM For Dummies
Or, How to discover when you took 2 incompatible medicines at the same time. So I’m in London to visit relatives. Nice city as usual, although quite chaotic. The weather is inexplicably good, with 28°C and a bright sun. The problem is, I’m stuck indoors with a terrible back pain. I’ve never had anything like…
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Email Is Broken
Many have come to this same conclusion before me, even in different contexts. But, I now have to agree: email is the most ineffective internal communication tool. Take this with a grain of salt, but all I’m saying is fundamentally true. 1. Email Is Low Priority If you use company IM, email becomes low priority…
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Quick Review: Windows SkyDrive
In short: slow as hell and totally unreliable. I use SkyDrive just as a backup tool. I happen to have 25 GB for free (I don’t remember why), so I installed it on this very webserver and scheduled a script to dump relevant data to the SkyDrive folder for backup purposes. The script works well…
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Samsung Is Killing Google’s Android
About a year ago I asked myself whether Android was dead. The answer is, a year later, probably not. The trend we all can see is that Google is simply losing control over the Android ecosystem. If you ask them, they’d probably answer that control is not the point, and it’s probably not very far…
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CyberStorm by Matthew Mather – Quick Review
I already wrote about Mather a while ago. He’s the author of the Atopia Chronicles series. I wouldn’t call it strictly SciFi, but it typically gets categorized as such. Categories are, by definition, approximations of reality. Mather has recently published a new book: CyberStorm. I got an advance copy (thanks Matthew!), but I didn’t start…