fighting the lack of good ideas
(*Though most people would call me an XXXL blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via RSS, I’m doing it via the WordPress channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.
Here’s a quick reminder for all you voting types out there – vote for Myers 2016, “I suck less than the other guy”.
This recent Medium post irked me. It’s by one of the creators / operators / owners of Hours, a “new” time-tracking and -reporting company. The intro had such promise, because it is so true: There is a reason why almost every time tracking service out there says it takes the pain out of time tracking….
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There’s been quite a bit of excitement surrounding Let’s Encrypt recently – a truly 100% free SSL issuer. Last week I helped a friend of mine get his first Let’s Encrypt certificate generated and configured for his website. One of the things I found incredibly frustrating is that Let’s Encrypt does not have a package…
Time to look back at last year’s tech predictions. I did this at the half-way point, so let’s see what has changed since then. AIX is still kickin’ HPUX hasn’t died yet 🙁 Solaris is still being clung-to by Oracle HP split in half – count this a win IBM has dropped from 162 to…
I am. But not really. To paraphrase my prelicensing class instructor, “95% of consulting is not technical work – it’s psychological”. 5% of consulting is delivery. The remainder is listening, empathizing, training, selling, encouraging, improving, and a whole bunch more gerunds. I’m an unlicensed psychiatrist dabbling in technology -just call me Frasier Malone – the single…
My dad turns 65 today. Congratulations! You can retire… or not – whatever floats your boat 🙂