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Yet another huge storm: It’s pouring buckets again today, with strong winds last night blowing some nasty winds. Fortunately, I’m extremely well-prepared, so it’s just another storm for me. That said, I’m looking forward to what’s next: This is a good time to remind Read More...
Posted 05 May 09 07:18 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Microsoft General, Future
Just can’t get decent weather anymore: Just when we thought summer was near, we get reminded that we still live in the Pacific Northwest. Look at the view from my office window right now: Somebody rescue us from this cold and snow! Read More...
Posted 13 April 09 04:07 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Microsoft General
Fingerprint reader on Windows 7: I upgraded my work laptop with Windows 7 a month or two ago (and I love it!) and most things are going smoothly. But one feature I’m loving a lot is the ability to swipe my finger across the fingerprint reader built into my Lenovo X60 TabletPC. Read More...
Posted 09 April 09 05:23 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Cool
eComm Notes part 4: Continuing my Virtual eComm attendance , here are some notes on other presentations; Dean Bubley ( Disruptive Analysis ): Starts out with a great quote “Don’t assume” because consensus viewpoints are often flawed. (I would say consensus is Read More...
Posted 09 March 09 04:55 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Future, Telephony, Event
eComm Notes part 3: Continuing my Virtual eComm attendance , I’m browsing through several more presentations. Ordinarily I’d write my thoughts quickly in Twitter and be done with it, but sometimes it’s nice to have the longer flow and easier format of a blog post. Read More...
Posted 05 March 09 05:57 by sprague | 0 Comments
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eComm Notes (Telio): My boss, XDH kept mentioning Scandinavia in his Twitter feed from Ecomm, so one of my first stops in my Virtual eComm attendance was the presentation by Alan Duric , CTO at the Norwegian telecom company, Telio ASA. Telemetry and real time communications Read More...
Posted 05 March 09 09:26 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Future, Telephony, Event
Hate the phone company?: You’re not alone. Telecommunications companies kept their #1 spot in Washington State last year for total number of complaints filed with the Attorney General’s office. They’ve been number one for the past decade. Industry 2008 2007 2006 2005 Read More...
Posted 04 March 09 10:07 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Telephony
eComm 09 virtually: Last year’s eComm was a wonderful way to see the latest cool stuff going on in the field of new communications technology and (more importantly) meet the people who are behind it all. The conference site, unfortunately, had poor internet coverage Read More...
Posted 03 March 09 03:50 by sprague | 5 Comments
Filed under VOIP, Future, Event
Write like me: I’ve hate handwriting. I’ve been using keyboards since I learned to write and my fingers just don’t want to use a pen. But there are too many occasions when people expect the “personal” touch of a handwritten document, so I couldn’t get out of it completely. Read More...
Posted 28 February 09 04:04 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Cool
Recite on Windows Mobile: Sometimes the best speech apps don’t really use speech recognition at all. I mean, yeah, there’s an audio stream and yeah there’s some processing, but you don’t always need the computer to understand what was said in order for it to be useful. My favorite Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 03:33 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under speech, Cool, Mobile
It’s a necessity: Look at the list of things Americans now list as necessities (according to a new poll by Pew Research ) Car 91% Clothes Washer 90% Clothes Dryer 83% Air Conditioning 70% Microwave 68% TV 64% Home Computer 51% Cell phone 49% Dishwasher 35% Cable TV 33% Read More...
Posted 30 January 09 12:32 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Future
Sneaking into the Macintosh launch: The Apple Macintosh was launched 25 years ago, which seems like ancient history because of course it is, but it’s fun to reflect a little on it because it brings back lots of personal memories for me – especially memories of what I think was the true Read More...
Posted 25 January 09 11:07 by sprague | 2 Comments
Filed under Apple
Prepping for ITExpo: One more week and I’ll be off to Miami for ITExpo East. I don’t usually look forward to trade shows, but I really enjoyed the last one and we have so many cool things planned that I can’t wait to get there. The organizer, Rich Tehrani, wrote Read More...
Posted 23 January 09 05:14 by sprague | 1 Comments
Filed under Response Point, Telephony
Disproving the Qwerty effect: I still run into people who cite the “Qwerty effect” as evidence that sometimes a big head start will give an inferior technology unfair market dominance at the expense of “better” ones. This theory has been disproven historically (it’s not true Read More...
Posted 19 January 09 07:09 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Cool
Do you know any scientists?: Now this is sad… Only 18 percent of us know a scientist personally, according to a 2005 survey (subscription required), and when asked in 2007 to name scientific "role models," the results were dismal . Forty-four percent of Americans couldn't Read More...
Posted 16 January 09 07:16 by sprague | 0 Comments
Filed under Microsoft, Cool

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