Stop the Insanity!

Anyone out there remember Susan Powter?  She was a blond, cropped hair diet guru from the 90s.  Her catchphrase was “Stop the Insanity!” and it was all about controlling your own behavior.
One of the most common contracts people end up tossing over the fence to the other party is a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).  Also known [...]

99.999

Back in the day, we used to fight for five-nine availability.  This meant that you would have access to the product or service 99.999% of the time.  (If you’ve not read Wikipedia’s article on the Myth of the Nines, now’s your chance.)  Mathmatically, this equates to only having 5.26 minutes of downtime a year.  Pretty [...]

Translation Services

When looking at my visitor logs, I noticed that I’m getting a larger number of non-US visitors.  I found a translation utility and you can now click a flag on the sidebar (look down and to the right) corresponding to your country.  I’m sorry it doesn’t include all languages, I’m limited to those available on [...]

Relative Size

During adolescence, in the middle of dozens of arguments with parents, children always look for a trump card.  They haven’t usually been taught (or have yet learned) that “proper” arguing is not an attempt to hurt someone or even to gain power over someone.  So they look for phrases they can use to wound.  I [...]

Holiday Break

Happy Fourth of July! For my US-based readers, please take the time to read the document giving you this day (and if you ever get the opportunity, I highly recommend visiting the National Archives in Washington, DC to see it in person).
Then, take the day off from the internet and spend the day outside.  [...]

Privacy in a SaaS World

I suppose it was bound to happen eventually, but a federal judge just ordered Google to turn over the viewing logs for YouTube (your usernames, IP addresses, etc) as part of the current Viacom v YouTube and Google litigation.  The EFF is fighting this, of course.
But, this doesn’t bode particularly well for privacy and the [...]

Microsoft Equipt

Back in April, we started talking about Microsoft converting home users to a SaaS model, originally code-named Albany.  Today it happened.  Microsoft has finally released a subscription version of Office. That’s right. $69.99**/year allows up to three home-use computers (the same as the regular version of Home and Student) the ability to use [...]

Invoices

Before going on vacation this year, I called my cellphone provider to talk about roaming charges.  I was going somewhere I’d never been (still in the US) and my specific provider has a nationwide plan that excludes those types of fees.  But it is a little off the beaten path, so I wanted to just [...]

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