I’ll ask your indulgence as I offer my own take on what seems to be a seemingly endless series of articles talking about AI and whether it is going to lift humanity up to new heights or doom us to oblivion. Fortunately, while I suspect the reality will not find us at either extreme, what... Continue Reading →
More than a decade ago, an IT friend of mine first introduced me to the Gartner Hype Cycle and I was equally parts amused and impressed with the it. (For those of you not familiar with them, Gartner is a technology research and consulting company and they were one of the handful of consulting firms... Continue Reading →
Last week, on October 29th, the Internet turned 50 years old. It was on that day in 1969 that the first message was sent between two networked computers over ARPANET, the forerunner of today's Internet. The message? "Lo"... which, in an ironic foreshadowing of computer headaches to come, was supposed to be "Login" but the... Continue Reading →
I admit it. This post gave me some trouble. I started it with one concept & conclusion in mind, then flipped to a completely different opinion the more I thought about it and ended up... somewhere in the middle. It was an unusual journey to take for one of my posts but I think there's... Continue Reading →
...ends where your nose begins. This pithy little saying was something I came up with in college to try and describe where I stood on the question of personal freedoms. For many, college is a time to challenge assumptions and to entertain new ways of looking at the world. For me, this led to an... Continue Reading →
In 2018, there was a lot of discussion around Net Neutrality and whether it was important to preserve or if was not really needed. There were interesting points made on both sides of the argument but what it led me to personally was the decision to start using a VPN (or Virtual Private Network) account... Continue Reading →
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