Loosely Coupled Thinking : OffTopic

Strange Days Indeed

jevdemon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Most peculiar mama (whoa)....(read more)

Star Destroyer: spaceship or film director?

jevdemon — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas’ influence on the film . *sigh* I’ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surprisingly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good...(read more)

WWT == Wow

jevdemon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:16:44 GMT

The World Wide Telescope (WWT) is amazing - I can't wait to show my son. You can see a demo of it from TED here . I'm not sure when this will be available but I hope its soon. This is a great application of the...(read more)

Wow

jevdemon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:42:00 GMT

Seen this yet? Take a walk or a drive around Seattle or San Francisco. Very cool....(read more)

Well that didn't take long...

jevdemon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:03:36 GMT

Seen this yet? Interesting to see it pop up on Yahoo News of all places. I had a feeling something like this was going to happen....(read more)

Logic Need Not Apply

jevdemon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:28:00 GMT

Interesting story popped up on ComputerWorld today about the Microsoft offer to Yahoo. Here's what made it most interesting to me (emphasis mine): According to the Post, the discord revolves around Yang and his followers being so opposed to selling the...(read more)

New year, new job

jevdemon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:11:00 GMT

The title says it all. I'll be doing more hands-on type of work so expect me to blog on a more frequent basis. Stay tuned....(read more)

Here comes another bubble

jevdemon — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:50:00 GMT

I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but for those of you that haven't its definitely worth a look . Brings back some very bad memories for me.. :(...(read more)

Enable Hibernation in Vista

jevdemon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:28:17 GMT

Open a command prompt type the following and hit enter: powercfg.exe -H on Enjoy!...(read more)

Do we really need more government involvement in the IT industry?

jevdemon — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:00 GMT

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a report analyzing data center energy consumption. An analyst with Gartner seems to want the EPA to penalize US businesses (emphasis mine): "We were looking for a stronger carrot and much...(read more)

Acronym Madness 2.0

jevdemon — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:25:48 GMT

ROA Anyone? Anyone? Bueller ?? This is deeper than a trough for me - more like a dungeon of disillusionment ....(read more)

Yet Another Acronym

jevdemon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:30:00 GMT

We've been discussing FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) related to new technologies for almost a decade. Now its time for FUD 2.0 - except we're going to call it FUDGE (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt around Governance in the Enterprise) because nobody doesn't...(read more)

Beta still means beta

jevdemon — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:45:59 GMT

Interesting take on Google Apps by one of the largest banks in Australia. Worth a read if you are considering Google Apps for your organization. CommBank gives Google Apps thumbs down...(read more)

Architect Journal gets a facelift

jevdemon — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:46:50 GMT

Have you seen the new Arc Journal website? Simon's taken the old website, revamped it and integrated it with the MSDN Architecture Center. The result is easier searching, cleaner navigation, and greater cross linking with other architecture articles and...(read more)

Yet Another SOA Consortium (YASC)

jevdemon — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:48:27 GMT

Here's another in what appears to be a growing trend . Interestingly enough - this one seems to be part of the OMG . Update: The SOA Leaders site appears to have vanished (cache of the site courtesy the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine )....(read more)