Why is it that we, as a corporate culture, have simply decided not to answer phone messages? Leave it on voicemail, leave it with an admin, it doesn’t seem to make any difference. People now just seem to think its OK to just wait until you call back and they’re at their desk, [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Return your Calls!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2005 | 3 Comments »
A Christmas Carol
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew — “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name [...]
Mainstream Internet
Posted in Internet on December 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting note by usability guru Jakob Nielsen:
Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, we're likely talking about a [...]
So, are we secure yet?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2005 | 6 Comments »
This week alone I have walked past three sets of workmen, installing those little bubble-fronted security cameras in the ceilings of various buildings. Our building management assures me that the image files would never be used for any untoward purposes by anyone, “the government wouldn’t allow it. Eventually we’ll delete them.” Nonetheless, [...]
We dodged the bullet in Tunis . . .
Posted in Internet on December 15, 2005 | 4 Comments »
. . . but the bad news is that they'll be coming back. At the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November, the US delegation and a few others squashed a move by many other countries to turn over the governance of the Internet to a consortium of Interested Parties and [...]
So we’re in launch mode now
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2005 | 8 Comments »
Since I subscribe heartily to the great David Brinkley’s observation that “everyone is entitled to my opinion” I have decided to bring out this blog as my way of enforcing that dictum. I have been losing track of the email addresses of all the people I feel obliged to notify of things that are [...]
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