21st Century Misfit

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- Erich Remarque

Archive for August, 2007

The Shadow IT Department

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

This fantastic article entitled “Users Who Know Too Much and the CIOs Who Fear Them” really struck a chord in me. It talks about how your users will engineer around you to get their jobs done.
I think the folks in both the engineering and security fields should give this a read. Although we don’t take [...]

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What happens if Google goes down?

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

As I listened to the Net At Nite podcast hosts discuss Page Flakes this morning, I was thinking about personalised home pages and online presence. I realized that, like hosts Leo and Amber, I’ll try a service for a while, then let it trickle off.
Right now, I seem to have many of my eggs [...]

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