Recently I had a chance to speak at one of our member institutions about collaborating with social tools. Slides from the talk are now available. Many of the staff spent their lunch break learning how social tools can be used to collaborate with others.
I could tell that many in the room were seeing [...]
OPLIN has a newish blog titled What Does This Mean to Me, Laura? The “Laura” is of course Laura Solomon.
I was recently invited to guest blog about Ultra Low-Cost PCs like the Asus Eee PC. The post is up now.
Bruce Schneier recently posted a commentary on Wired titled I’ve Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch. Looks like everyone wants to be able to control everything.
OnStar will soon include the ability for the police to shut off your engine remotely. Buses are getting the same capability, in case terrorists want to re-enact [...]
Thanks to Laura Solomon for tweeting this. Just say NO to DRM!
Last week I got to see Jay Pipes speak at a local PHP users group meeting. He did a 2-part talk on optimizing SQL (Join-Fu, as he calls it). I managed to keep up and follow part 1, but I have to admit that part 2 was largely over my head. Below [...]