Tech 1: This one guy was trying to open a 50MB PPT presentation and wanted to know why PPT kept closing on him
Tech 2: Hm. Did it have a bunch of movies and crap in it? Probably it did.
Tech 1: The pics were really high [resolution]
Tech 2: And he used PP to resize […]
Wired’s Bruce Schneier talks about the consquences of the internet being your hard drive.
Mainly he is discussing the idea of relying on third party services for keeping the information you want to keep accessible and the downsides and dangers of relying on other people for what you think is important.
I recently heard someone who had […]
I have been trying it all lately. And by “all” I mean just about any kind of application or service that comes to light online that looks like it might do something I want it to do for me. Some work and some don’t. Some work sometimes and other times not. […]
While my goal is to post one sort of long, thoughtful post a week, there are certainly going to be instances of just brief observations from my workplace, like this one today.
I suspect that every workplace has a manager or upper level administrative staff person that is a technological fantasist. Someone that is very […]